In the respective fashion of Heather B Armstrong aka. “dooce“.

is fixed! Not that i ever admitted to it being broken, but it was. I have absolutely no idea what the fuck happened to it in the first place, but sometime between Feb 01 and Feb 04 it broke. I don’t remember making any changes to it that would have caused it to freak out. Not that anyone here is interested but the main-page was mapped to a file that was no longer updated by my MovableType install.

Anyway, for those of you that do not visit the link-blog’s feed and rely on it here on the main blog page, it’s back!

And YES, I know there is some odd bug on the “Home” page when it is view in IE, but if you’re using IE then your knuckles are probably calloused from dragging on the ground anyway.

Accordign to this article at Wired, “Depending on whom you ask, bloggers are either “citizen journalists” who are democratizing media, or bloviating loudmouths posting ill-formed opinions on personal websites between trips to the fridge. ”

I wonder which I fall into. The main topic of the article is wether or not bloggers should be covered by the 1st amendment rights that protect journalists and their sources. Of course this is directly related to the recent Kottke posting about Ken Jennings and the Jeopardy saga that I talked about here several months ago.

The question, I think, should not be are they covered by 1st amendment rights but does the current interpretation of the 1st amendment accurately reflect the developments of technology and global compression. As technology allows us to cross borders and reach new achievements that we considered the stuff of science fiction only several years ago we should begin to re-evaluate the rules with which we govern ourselves. As we advance technologically we should flex our interpretation of our rules accordingly.

By this I do not mean that every jackass with a keyboard and a Blogger account should be allowed to spew insider information over the internet. But, we do need to carefullyre- examine what is and is not normal and acceptable.

Just another opinion from the resident “bloviating loudmouth”!

I would just like to point out the latest set of pictures that have been added to the gallery. This is one of the most interesting crashes that I have been on.

After more than a month off and more personal stuff than I care to get into. I have finally:

• Made some of the most difficult and significant personal decisions that I have ever made.
• And begun to re-orchestrate my life from how it has felt recently.
• Finished switching over to my new server, and damn is it fast!
• Corrected some of the display errors that have been plaguing this site.
• Changed the root page to something a little more me. Rather than the overly busy home page. A site redesign is in the works (again!).
• Upgraded the Gallery installation.
• Begun to learn some of Ruby and Rails, it is really cool once you get it installed and running correctly.
• Saw GWAR
• Through a current project; learned quite a bit about e-commerce applications and systems (more than really I wanted to.)
• Taken some really cool photographs (that will show up here shortly).
• Went to Gasparilla!

So, in summary:
I’m back! more content than before, a little riled up, and hopefully some really cool shit to post here!