Good Grief!

Good Grief! moves to a new host, shit breaks

Blogging about blogging is sooooo tedious. Therefore, I will not blog about blogging. Instead this blog is about how I am not blogging about blogging and in fact am not blogging much at all because of a blog project that is keeping me too busy to blog. When the super-secret blog project […]

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Hooters
Technical aside: after years of uploading pictures to Typepad, Snapfish, Ofoto, and Flickr, I decided to embrace Flickr for all photo sharing and printing needs (under username Bendystraw).
This picture right here of the sinking Hooters boat is my most viewed stand-alone photo. I have a good idea about which tag attracted the […]

February’s hellish DVD hookup experience has made me reluctant to undertake other electronics-related projects. However, there’s nothing like moving from a one bedroom apartment to a three story house to invoke the siren call of wireless. Well, guess what? It is much easier to install and secure a wireless home network than […]

Apparently, certain tasks related to my new job involve Internet Relay Chat. IRC? People still do that? According to this circa-1990s site:
Sure, the Web is nice for finding info and E-mail beats snailmail hands down, but when you’ve been wondering ‘where the others are?’, then IRC is what you’re looking for. […]

Continuing last week’s theme of weblogs and their impact on offline life…I used to perceive webloggers as introverted, awkward geeks who never leave the house. After starting Good Grief!, however, I found the opposite to be true and met a lot of interesting, like-minded people*, got Blankbabied (i.e., got a job lead based on […]

This post might be a bad idea:

I do not like meta-blogging
I do not blog about my personal life

However, there’s been some talk lately about the intersection of blogs and real life and the influence of the former upon the latter. Specifically, my friend and co-worker Scott was on the front page of last Sunday’s […]

Yeah, yeah… Google has some super cool applications. As you surely know, Google Maps makes Mapquest seem so late 90s. And Gmail is great once you embrace the “no folders” way of thinking.
But this new Google Talk instant messaging thing being spewed all over the Internet? As Scott observed, it has […]

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