Ewwwww!

Wherein we consider the possibility of weaponizing bermudagrass clippings

Memo to the City of Midland

To say that our new expensive traffic light synchronization system is a disappointment is an insult to disappointments.

New Gazette Header Graphic?

So, I’ve been thinking about whether to re-incorporate an ant into the header graphic, but it’s hard to decide which one. Here’s a possibility. Link via Daring Fireball

TDF 2009

The Tour de France begins this weekend, and some of us are ecstatic to have Lance back in the spotlight. Will he win? That’s not the point.

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Housekeeping Note

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

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Progress

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

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Starting Over

In response to the extensive feedback* I’ve recently received, we’re starting over (again!) with the Gazette, and basically returning to a more-or-less traditional blog format. It’s going to take a while to get reformatted, so please bear with us. *At least five people, representing 87.6% of my total readership, suggested this approach.

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Fire Ant Farewell

[Update (years later!) Hahahahah…*cough*…uh, well — just kidding! Apparently, there’s no effective 12-Step program for giving up blogging.] This is the 3,846th post on the Gazette. It’s also the last. After more than six years, it’s time to try something different, although at this point I’m not precisely sure what that means.

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