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I’ve been saying I should write a PEIDM entry for quite a while.<\/p>\n

I just don’t know what to write one on.<\/p>\n

I usually write these things when I’m pissed, or meditating some decision, or I’ve come to some semi-profound conclusion that I want to solidify so it cannot morph itself into something else without a record, or some commentary on something weird, or a funny take on my life.<\/p>\n

I’ve had those little bits, but they seem to fizzle by the time I get near paper or the computer.<\/p>\n

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In someways its a good thing I’ven’t needed to write anything here. If you look at the January 2003-Mayish 2003 entries in my eJournal (as it was known in those days), you’ll note that in some ways this was a therapy method I used to ensure my sanity.<\/p>\n

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Also I’ven’t been reading as much as I would like. I did finish Mind Wide Open<\/a> by Steven Johnson<\/a>. It didn’t spark any amazing insight. I mean I know that there are separate tools that people develop and we’re not using them all at once; that there are chemicals that affect our brain as well as different brain structures; that people who are good at specific tasks because they can get in specific brain patterns when the need arises; that we have primal systems that learn and don’t always work with us. It could be that I was a bit spoiled by reading the excepts of the book. Sometimes once you get the key ideas that the book is built around the filling is well, boring. Its similar to Dr. Irvine<\/a>‘s next book. In some ways I am looking forward to it to see how it came out (and possibly if my name made it into it somewhere.), but in many ways I’m not looking forward to it because I am not really sure how much new information will be in it.<\/p>\n

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An Amusing snippet from my conversation with Phil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Me: oh, did I tell you Cincinnati Bell is trying to kill me?<\/p>\n

Phil: nope, but I believe it.<\/p>\n

Me: lol, you’re too easy<\/p>\n

Phil: i know <\/p>\n

Me: I’m disturbed, you don’t even ask for an explanation.. perhaps I should be worried that CinBell has had enough contracts on other people’s lives that its common practice in Kentucky…<\/p>\n

Phil: shhh. you’re not supposed to know. sigh. *finds tire iron*<\/p>\n

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Hmm other news. I’m moving to Covington, Kentucky. I’ve gotten all the obligatory state paperwork done, although I’ven’t gotten my plates taken care of completely. (I’m actually being very Kentuckian about the matter right now, I have my Ohio plate, which is stuck on the rear plate mount, and I have my Kentucky plate in the window. I figure if push comes to shove, I can argue that “I’m following the law to the best of my ability I just couldn’t get the Ohio plate off to put the Kentucky plate on”)<\/p>\n

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Felines, they’re all well. The boys are cute as ever, and the female.. Well shes a bitch and shes unhappy because she got cut up the other day. (Gotta follow Barker’s advice)<\/p>\n

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Hmm.. What else. Oh I’m frustrated with Phil’s take on Movable Type<\/a>. Come on, its a blog engine that is so flexible that people can and have contorted it to do things that no one even imagined it could do. Yeah the commenting sucks, and I think the Net wide comment registration thing is a great idea, better than captchas, blacklisting, or single site registration. <\/p>\n

Really for a majority of the blogging community MT or something similar works. Most of us don’t add a huge number of entries, (My database has 544 entries, plus comments in it right now) and even if we do we don’t rebuild all that often. <\/p>\n

I guess I must say I do get around a lot of the complaints by using Server Side Includes gratuitously, to the point that I’ve turned it into a programming language in its own right. (The page you are currently viewing is composed of no less that five separate files on my web server.) <\/p>\n

I could go on and on and on, but I’m more of the opinion that it works, most people can get it to do what they want it to without too many headaches.<\/p>\n

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Hmm.. what else should I rant about?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately no one has added themselves to my PEIDM mailing list, although this could be because it is only on one page. (Guess I got side tracked somewhere down the line when I was adding it.)<\/p>\n

Oh while I’m mentioning it features that I want to add to my website:<\/p>\n