Oh Blog. How I have abused and abandoned you.

I made empty promise after empty promise to tend to your upkeep.

I am here to make a new set of possibly empty promises to you so that you will not leave me and wander the Tubes like the orphan I have forced you to become.

It begins with a makeover.
WordPress 2.5 was released yesterday. I am going to upgrade your system. Hopefully, your little plug-in play-friends will cooperate.

Next comes the meal of content.
When I started you, oh little blog, I wanted to make you accessible to my friends who are mostly not into many of the same subjects that you and I are interested. I wanted to make the point that I was an interesting person beyond these things. No longer. I can no more deny who we are than I could go without ketchup accompanying nearly all of my meals. No more deny the random musings held inside than I could stay awake for an entire work day. I can no more deny the child-like fascination beholden to my interests than reduce my caloric intake for a day.

Prepare yourselves, netizens!

I am going to blog about toys.*

*Note: This is in addition to the infrequent and witty posts already contributed. Sure to be just as infrequent.

I updated my wishlist with some more relevant items. I put the most recent and relevant items at the top and separated the rest with a horizontal line. Anything below that line is from the past and I haven’t gone through to see if they are still relevant. I’ll get to that eventually. One thing at a time.

Clearly my new years’ resolution was not to be better about blogging…Updates coming soon…

FightingReality is now on WordPress 2.1. It is fantastically full of some new features that I’ve wanted both in this version and the previous couple I skipped. I can even do automated backups. Unfortunately the backup plugin doesn’t come default anymore so I had to manually install it. Otherwise it was a completely smooth upgrade.

I’ll most likely be upgrading Powet.TV to this version within the next couple of weeks.

Last night some maintenance was done to the server that this site resides on. mySQL was upgraded to a newer version. Since then I have attempted to load this page and found the database to be inaccessible on 4 separate occassions. I have gotten on a live chat with support each time and the database was brought back up. I’m not sure whats going on, but be aware the site is having some issues at the moment. Fortunately, support has been very responsive, but I’d rather not have to contact them in the first place.

I managed to get a number of the galleries up that I mentioned earlier.

Botcon 2001
Botcon 2002
Botcon 2003

All are up and ready for your viewing pleasure. I might go back and rotate some of the images later on, but they’re viewable as is.

OTFCC 2004 will be coming soon as I have a ridiculous number of images from that convention.