OMG I’m in love with Todd Rundgren’s wife, OF ALL PEOPLE. Her blog is fucking wonderful. She’s a riot. She’s a soft touch. She’s, like, inspiring and shit! Honestly, I have understood quite clearly for years that Todd is Godd – but I didn’t know shit about his personal life. Didn’t even know if he […]

This ad makes it sound like an iPod is a hideous portable music solution, but you *never* own the tracks you get through Napster – their licensing is even more hideously restrictive than the solution Apple’s iTunes store came up with. As long as you pay the monthly fee, sure sure you can carry around […]

THE ID3-Tag-Editor for MP3s, ID3-TagIT. Fix all those orphaned MP3s on your HDD.

Yesterday I got my Sumajin Smartwrap earphone cord manager and matching Funky earphone pads all the way from Singapore. I love ’em. They’re adorable. The earphone pads are actually of better quality than the ones that came with my Apple earphones, and the Smartwrap is soft and flexible and I don’t think it will do […]

On the old server, comments spam was a nightmare. I had MT-Blacklist installed, but it ran pretty slow and it took forever to remove comments spam if I didn’t do it every couple of days or so. Now I can go a long time without even getting any comments spam. Here’s how you can do […]

I like wine. I enjoy good wines, wines that cost more than four dollars a bottle. I like an expensive, musty, ashy-tasting cabernet as much as the next girl. But I drink bottom-shelf crap. Yesterday I bought a bottle of the tackiest “wine” ever: Arbor Mist Blackberry Merlot. And I loved it. Yes, as a […]

Try as I might, I can’t make Iowa Chicks Knitting work. It needs a new home. (It’s still stuck back on the old server that killed Goblinbox.) So I broke down and added a Donate button; hopefully the girls will come through and I’ll be able to move I.C.K. to a new, stable home.

This is what happened. An event occurred on enterprise.lisco.com and it broke my MT installation and my DBM database. Any entry that was rebuilt lost it’s comments. Other comments were lost at random. All of the content for Iowa Chicks Knitting was destroyed; I suspect a user rebuilt the database out of ignorance. I tried […]

I just had the most remarkable cup of coffee: I have a stove-top espresso maker, and in its filter basket I placed some finely ground Starbucks dark roast and an equal amount of this amazing South Indian coffee called Bhoomi that I bought at an Amma auction of a dollar. (It’s been living in my […]

Apparently my installation of Movable Type has suffered it’s first truly major glitch since I started using it: all my comments are gone. No idea why. Maybe I’ve been hacked. *shrug* People keep telling me to upgrade to the newest version of MT, but they don’t understand how many blogs and users I’ve got – […]