I've finally bitten the bullet and registered my very own domain! Yay! Henceforth, new posts will appear at http://www.cheerfulstoic.com for your reading pleasure. (Note: if that doesn't work for you, visit me at http:// ( Read more... )

I'm thinking about what purpose (if any) this blog serves in the age of Facebook and whatnot. Who actually reads this?

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Recently the ads on LiveJournal have been getting increasingly irritating, so I'm thinking of moving my journal somewhere else, i.e., Blogger, where the ads are a bit more discreet and I can make some money from them if I so choose. However, I have run into a small problem: there are no blogspot addresses left ( Read more... )

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So Google Reader has a "like" button now, like Facebook. And you can follow people, like Twitter. Actually you could read your friends' shared items before, but I guess that wasn't catchy enough so they redid the interface a bit and renamed it. We are slowly moving toward a single massive RSSFeedFacebookTwitterEmailBlogIM social networking model, ( Read more... )

Thanks to the endlessly entertaining brilliance of Ryan North, I recently learned about hapax legomena, words which occur only once in either the written record of a language, the works of an author, or in a single text (according to Wikipedia). At least at the single text level, they're not that uncommon. A quick perusal of my blog's word count ( Read more... )

I'd like to bring your attention to the little link at the bottom left-hand corner of this post (and indeed every post) that says "Leave a Comment". Those of you reading this in Google Reader will probably have to click through to see it, but it really is there. Lately I have noticed that the majority of comments come from the same four or five ( Read more... )

Last year I made a plea to Hank Paulson for my share of the bailout money, without success. But now it's a new year, a new administration. Hope and Change are in the air. The Senate's increased stimulus spending up to $838 billion and Treasury Secretary Geithner is bumping the bailout up to a staggering $1.5 trillion. In the light of all these new ( Read more... )

It seems our beloved blog host has fallen on hard times. In this economy? Quelle surprise. This might be a good time to consider backing up your journal: I use ljarchive.

(Hat tip: thisispoki)