If I Were King: March 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009

Every Time You Go Away...

... you take a piece of me with you.

It's 8:18 AM and she has just left for Jacksonville, to see her mother. I understand why. I have a mother too, and there are times when you just have to take care of business.

Monday, March 9, 2009

I Just Filed For Divorce...

... from the cable company. From October 2000 until January or so of 2008, I had had both cable TV and internet service with the cable vendor serving my subdivision. For about the last two or three years of that time, I was usually unhappy with the internet service we were getting.

Background

For a long while I posted my blog on MySpace™, but it seemed that as time passed, my pages were getting slower and slower to load. My pages there were highly customized, but those customizations were fairly low overhead.

Because of the deteriorating performance, I started using Facebook™ more, and MySpace™ less. I'm convinced that the performance problem was a direct result of the intensive vendor scripting and advertisements.

Subsequently, MySpace™ made more changes, and my pages lost a lot of their custom formatting, making the actual posts pretty much unreadable. I had to do something, but I was tired of trying to live within the restrictions there anyway, and too lazy to go back and fix what they broke.

I considered moving everything to Facebook, but the format there isn't very friendly to my style of blogging, so I moved my last remaining blog here.

Some of the material from there is dated, and perhaps no longer relevant, but it may have some historical interest. As with my other blogs, as much as I value feedback, I'm not going to try to move comments. Blogger doesn't provide a way to import anything from a different blog site, including comments, and I don't know of an acceptable way to do it manually.

Feel free to read what I wrote, and comment if you want, but remember to look at the dates on the posts, and keep things in perspective.