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Morbus Iff, and a cast of thousands (for a very tiny definition of 'thousands'), have released a new GameGrene site, Ghyll. Ghyll is a RPG where players take on the role of a scholar documenting the history of an imaginary world called Ghyll. Based on the concept documented here, I think this is a really cool idea. Hypermedia rules.

Man, I should have posted this on our anniversary - this is a picture that our good friends took the night Jodi and I got engaged, while in Altensteig, Germany. March 6, 1998. As of this picture, we had been engaged for, oh, about 20 minutes. :-D I sure love you, |Jodi|!

A good friend, Don, introduced me to a couple bands last week, and I've been listening to them ever since.

Sorry for the short outage, had to re-install mysql and reload the data.

Our friend Angie, who attended the first Arizona-New York blogger get-together, has started blogging again, after a long hiatus. w00!

Lou Rosenfeld, one of the early pioneers of the IA discipline, has an interesting post on heuristics for analyzing a website's architecture.

Jodi just a switched to Firefox:

Jodi and I had a long conversation with a woman from the agency that is helping us prepare the dossier that gets sent to Ukraine for consideration. Cheri is a real sweetheart, and has a huge love for these kids. We're having to face some really tough questions regarding what kind of child we're looking to adopt and what sort of medical conditions we're willing to accept as part of that. The flux of emotions can be overwhelming -- something I had expected, but going through it is so different from imagining it.

Wow. Paul Hamm.

To read: Max Design's Web Standards Checklist. Max Design also has a great presentation section on their site with interviews, articles, and tips on using valid markup and stylesheets in your websites.

Someone asked for a proper diff of my changes to upload.php in |WordPress|, so here it is:

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Dave writes about what I've always thought was a good idea but have a serious reason to care about now: we want to be able to subscribe to audio content feeds via something like RSS and get it downloaded directly to our iPods. I'd love to be able to have |NetNewsWire| automatically add any .mp3 enclosures to a special playlist in iTunes.

(This post is copied from this one on the support forums, I want to make sure my |WordPress| code has a home on this site.)

ukrainian-phrases

I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

Ukrainian plus Russian Phrases for children. :-)

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I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

Ukrainian plus Russian Phrases for children. :-)

I've updated our adoption How To Help page with a link to a language CD Jodi and I are interested in:

RandomURL: Tips for Travelling in the South. How not to get your ass kicked in the south. I grew up in Southeastern Virginia, which most Southerners will still begrudgingly accept as Southern, and this list of tips is both accurate and hysterical.

I've been reading Terry Pratchett's Thief Of Time, a light fantasy-sci-fi in the vein of Douglas Adams' H2G2 series or Terry Brooks' Magic Kingdom series, and really enjoying it. If that's your bag, do check out Pratchett's Discworld books. (3.5 out of 5 whatevers).

|Jodi| and I are celebrating 6 years of marriage today! On August 15, 1998, Jodi and I walked down the aisle in Episcopal Church of the Messiah and into that primary place in each others lives. We've had some hard times, but these 6 years have been wonderful.