by Katherine Villyard | Dec 22, 2006 | geekiness
Thanks to Mark Paschal (the author of OpenID Comments for MT), OpenID is back. I’ll probably never know why Brian’s OpenID stopped working–my guess is that it’s just borked–but the LJ account I was using to test was missing a piece in the...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 22, 2006 | cats, picspam
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 22, 2006 | geekiness
The Parable of the Managers. Goest thou, oh managers of IT, and learnest thou the truth of the way of the profit. For I hath toiled in the codebase of Ahimelech, and many times I hath reverse-engineered and finished the undocumented projects of those servants who hath...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 17, 2006 | geekiness
Because I had geek envy, I upgraded my version of Movable Type. Thus far it looks like it was completely painless. Of course, I did RTFM first. 😉 Hopefully you won’t notice at all.
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 16, 2006 | geekiness
Brian migrated his site to Drupal. I have geek envy. If I had any content other than my blog, I’d consider migrating myself. Just for fun, you know. Because I want to play with the geek toy! But no. I’m sticking with Movable Type for now, because I’d...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 14, 2006 | writing mysticism
I’ve been thinking about this lately because I just finished NaNoWriMo and am now working on a short story and the two of them just make me feel more aware of mechanics lately. I usually start with a setting or situation, and then have to find characters and a...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 14, 2006 | short fiction
Apparently you can vote for your favorite stories and poems over on The Fifth Di…. I wouldn’t be sad if your favorite was me Me mE MEmemEMeMEME meeeeeeeeeeeeee! Just don’t stuff the ballot box or...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 9, 2006 | geekiness
Apparently, OpenID mysteriously quit working with LJ. I’ll assume that’s why I haven’t received any comments since September. Comments are moderated because of spammers. Specifically, it’s because there is a special circle in hell for people...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 3, 2006 | geekiness
At least, it made Brian give me a weird look. 😉 I’m considering doing all my composing in plain text rather than Open Office or AbiWord. Why? More portable–easier to sneak in work on other machines (*coughcough*the office*cough*). I won’t need to...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 30, 2006 | short fiction
My story, “Corporate Oversight,” is now available at The Fifth Di…. Woohoo!