I am keeping a new blog for reviews, roleplaying thoughts, and anything that I can sloppily lump under the term “culture.”

It’s here:

Imaginary Vestibule.

• Posted by Bryant at 10:52 AM

So as was fairly noticeable, we had a hard drive crash here at Innocence Central a couple of weeks ago. Recovery is in progress, nothing was lost, etc. So not very traumatic. On the other hand, it did get me thinking about what I wanted to do with my blog, my LiveJournal, and so forth.

After a bunch of said thinking, I decided to shut down this blog. It’s been around for five years or so, which is probably about enough time. Somewhere back there I got distracted from writing about culture and into politics, which was fun for a few years, but yeah. I’ve lost my zest for that.

For the time being, personal stuff will wind up on my LiveJournal. Chances are very good there’ll be a new blog at a later date, which will feed into my LJ. My LJ will, under the current plan, wind up having posts that the blog doesn’t have. I could draw a Venn diagram but it’s not that hard.

So, good night, Popone! Comments are closed; the archives will stick around for the foreseeable future.

• Posted by Bryant at 07:17 AM

This isn’t a real post; this is a way to spread what paltry Googlejuice I have.

Hey! Cameron Rogers!

Stephanie Durrell!

• Posted by Bryant at 01:34 AM

Movable Type 3.2 beta?

Yep.

Working OK?

Yep.

Getting a real workout?

Nah.

By the way, SpamLookup? Keeps spam comments away even when you’re completely neglecting your blog. It’s awesome.

• Posted by Bryant at 04:57 PM | Comments (1) | Followups (0)

I’m trying out Brad Choate’s cool new anti-spam plugin. If you have trouble commenting or sending a trackback, please drop me a line. If you’re reading this on Livejournal, ignore it.

• Posted by Bryant at 09:41 PM | Comments (4) | Followups (0)

I converted this blog over to Wordpress 1.5, out of curiosity. For some reason, the front page takes about ten times longer to load in Wordpress. I probably won’t be switching any time soon.

• Posted by Bryant at 05:56 PM | Comments (0) | Followups (0)

Everything old is new again, particularly my blog design. If you run into issues, drop me a comment or an email.

• Posted by Bryant at 07:31 PM | Comments (7) | Followups (0)

Population: One is now running Movable Type 3.14. It’s almost a mathematical constant! I also upgraded MT Blacklist to match. Let me know if you see any problems.

• Posted by Bryant at 06:42 PM | Comments (0) | Followups (0)

They’re not personal blogs. They’re not generalist blogs. Oh, hell, I read enough of ‘em — I guess they’re Historical Blogs. Thus, Bostonia, a lovely little series of explorations of Boston’s rich history; Old is the New New, “with a special interest in the history of technology and business in America and the world”; Cliopatria, a lot of smart people talking about history together; and Pillow Talk, a blogaptation of Sei Shonagon’s “Pillow Book.”

(“Blogaptation”: my entry in the ongoing contest for the most painful neologism involving the word “weblog.” But really, it’s hard to beat the original “blog,” isn’t it?)

• Posted by Bryant at 10:05 PM | Comments (0) | Followups (0)

I just installed Brad Choate’s MT-DSBL plugin, hacked slightly so that it checks against both the Distributed Sender Blackhole List and the Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor List. (Perhaps I should add SORBS?) Hopefully this’ll cut down on spam.

If this interferes with anyone’s commenting, please let me know.

Edit: it screws up mine. Off for now.

Edit: found the problem (my colo provider’s DNS is somewhat over-zealous). It’s back on.

• Posted by Bryant at 10:52 PM | Comments (3) | Followups (0)

Speaking of which, the squidguard blacklists might make really good input for MT-Blacklist. Remember this and try it.

• Posted by Bryant at 06:46 PM | Comments (0) | Followups (0)

Can’t blog, Schilling’s pitching.

• Posted by Bryant at 02:27 PM | Comments (0) | Followups (0)

I just installed and sorta tested Chad Everett’s MT-Notifier. If all goes as planned, you can now subscribe to comment threads either when you post a comment or without posting a comment. I could make it possible to subscribe to all the comments posted on Popone, too, if there’s a deluge of demand, but I’m kinda not anticipating one.

Oh, and I have six gmail invites, first come first serve.

• Posted by Bryant at 04:50 PM | Comments (0) | Followups (0)

Look, ma, I upgraded to Movable Type 3.1! It’s cool. I am pondering my commenting options; it seems not impossible that I will set the blog to post TypeKey-authenticated comments immediately while screening non-TypeKey-authenticated comments; the legitimate non-TK comments would still get posted, just with a bit of a delay. Or maybe not, since I haven’t had a ton of comment spam recently. Thoughts, bearing in mind that the easiest thing for all of you (no screening, no worries) requires more effort on my part (deleting spam comments)?

• Posted by Bryant at 09:40 PM | Comments (8) | Followups (0)

Some time ago:

For some odd reason I’m not really comfortable posting long ranty things to my LiveJournal. There’s something weird going on in my head there. I think it’s because I have this constant awareness that I’m dropping an acrid pissed off political rant in the middle of a couple of dozen nice peaceful friends pages, between a perfectly harmless quiz answer and a thoughtful introspective discussion of someone’s day. “If I were a Sluggy Freelance character, I would be — holy shit, what the hell got up his ass?” That sort of thing. Also I keep finding myself self-conscious about profanity, cause I know some of my readers aren’t fond of the stuff.

Yeah, still pretty much the case.

A little less than a year ago — August 27th, 2003 — I got the anniversary completely wrong. I still make dumb mistakes, too.

Thanks for visiting, anyhow. I promise to keep writing whenever I have something interesting to say.

• Posted by Bryant at 04:17 PM | Comments (2) | Followups (0)