Angry Learner

I don't get stikkit, either.

I am contemplating moving Angry Learner from TypePad over to WordPress (or something else). The reasons to switch have to be good to overcome the inertia of my laziness. (In short: speed, flexibility, cost.)

Certainly, in the process, URLs are probably going to completely bonk and other things will fail. The questions I pose to my 5 readers:

1. How stressed should I be about maintaining URLs?
2. Do URLs themselves need to be meaningful? (I am thinking ID style urls to combat question #1 in the future)
3. WordPress is dead simple to get going (and keep up) on my account on Dreamhost. Should I consider alternatives? (I would probably use Textpattern if they offered it as a 1-click install as an alternative.)

Thanks, in advance, for your advice.

What is to keep the google folks from running map-reduce to calculate hashes of all their indexed content as a method of detecting cryptographic collisions? Perhaps they are doing this already?

Any Firefox 2.0 users out there who have figured out how to get command-clicking on a link to open in a new background window and not in a tab?

Update: I have routed around the damage and reverted to 1.5.

I don't get vox.

10K pictures on Flickr

Last year, after a hard drive failure and failed recovery attempt, I decided that I would start using Flickr for all of my digital photos. All of them. I went back several years and posted every single digital photo we have ever taken. It has turned out to be a liberating experience (not having to think about backups or emailing pictures, etc) and our photos are now to where we actually look at them and, as a result, we want to take more pictures.

Today, we passed a milestone: I posted our 10,000th picture on our account. It was part of a set of pictures I took on the Ride for a Better Life - a bike ride in Jonesboro, AR. Feel free to enjoy them.

The Hard, Stupid Ride - Fall Edition

I have been trying to come up with something witty or funny to write about my experiences during the Fall Hilly Hundred and I can't. It seems that tragedy is an essential part of my humor writing and, well, the ride was devoid of any problems for me.

It was a gorgeous day, no wind (or if there was, it was mostly at our back on the way back), riding with friends who were patient, and we finished it. I did have a flat at mile 88 which took entirely too long to fix, and which solidified my last place position. It didn't matter though, I still finished and I didn't have to crawl into a truck.

At no point did I want to throw my bike in the path of an oncoming vehicle, so it seems like I am making some progress.

Please, someone, invent separate smileys for ironic and sarcastic thoughts.

Ladies and Gentlemen: Today, for the first time, I defeated John Tucker to the top of Fairview Rd. I beat him so badly, that when I did my victory dance, he was too far back down the curve to see it in its glory. That is all.

The Hard, Stupid Ride

I participated in the Hilly Hundred Ride to benefit the Arkansas Sheriff's Youth Ranch in Bethesda, AR, just outside of Batesville. It was, as my friend Sean said, "a hard, stupid ride". This is a weird recollection of the event.