Angry Learner

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.