Monthly Archives: January 2008

I’m Curious About the Wordpress.com Community

Styled Bits runs the Wordpress weblog platform. It’s easy to install and maintain, outside of worrying about PHP vulnerabilities. I like to take a peek at what others are doing from time to time, and noticed that the plug-and-play version of Wordpress has a built-in community of sorts. I wonder how well […]

A Not-So-Bluesy Monday

I took the day off today, and have been trying to get my musical muscles back in shape. Paul and I have decided to do a long distance collaboration for the 2008 RPM Challenge. This morning’s tasks included a reexamination of Garage Band. It has improved over the years, and […]

I Can’t Feel My Fingers

I had a lot of maintenance to do last night, so I’ve been napping through most of the day.   When I finally felt like going near a computer, I noticed that Paul was talking about this: a NanoWriMo for musicians.  After a few moments of reading that, I pulled out my old beat up Martin, […]

Watering the Plants

As I’ve mentioned before, I have a small indoor herb garden. It consists of three good sized window boxes, all resting on the inside ledges of my front windows. As of now, I am declaring one of the boxes a lost cause and the other two as stunted. They stopped growing several […]

Two New Sites

Brooke and I finished up two personal projects today.  First, we launched the redesign of her site, Mean Green Lunchbox.   It’s now powered by Wordpress, and she’s very happy with it.
I also launched a security-centric blog today titled ‘Michael on Security‘.  If you’re going to focus, you might as well get your name as specific […]