Category: Navel Gazing

Of all the made-up words that accompanied the advent of blogging, “blogiversary” is the most unwieldy and nonsensical…and yet I can’t think of another one to use while announcing that today the Fire Ant Gazette turns eight years old. In many ways, Facebook (and to a lesser extent, Twitter) has brought blogging to its knees,… Continue reading Turning Eight

What…are you still here? You must have the patience of Job. You do realize, don’t you, that I killed off the Gazette? And not just once, but at least fifty times, and that was just last week. Darn thing keeps coming back to life, though. Rob Zombie would be proud. I’m glad that one of… Continue reading Blogging will continue until morale improves

The following is certified Content Free™ I spent much of the day paralyzed by my social media choices. I couldn’t decide whether to blog, tweet, update my Facebook wall, tweak my LinkedIn profile, or stare in shame at my MySpace page…and so I did none of those things. I’m pretty sure that the world was… Continue reading SMP (Social Media Paralysis)

For those who have subscribed to the Gazette’s RSS feed, I have some good (or bad) news. We’ll be providing the full post via that feed, starting today, rather than a short excerpt. Over the years, a few people have requested that I do this, but I was hesitant to make the change for a… Continue reading Programming Note

I want to make things more simple for comments, but I may not be smart enough to figure out how to do that.

This isn’t taking as long as I expected. The Gazette’s new layout is falling nicely into place. Well, at least the main pages are shaping up well. Fortunately, I’m using a stupid-simple layout, but even so, deciphering Movable Type’s complicated system of templates and widgets involves a lot of trial and error. Still, I think… Continue reading Progress