Chris Hardie's Blog

I haven't had the chance to blog lately, but here are some bits and pieces to chew on. First, some links:

Friday's episode of On the Media was excellent as usual, but did an especially good job of covering the strange way the 11 PM Eastern network television calling of the election works, cognitive dissonance [...]

You may have noticed that I was playing around with the Twitter Tools plugin for Wordpress, and that it was generating these weekly digests of my Twitter posts on Fridays.  I'm not going to do that anymore, but you can always follow me on Twitter directly or with your favorite blog/RSS feed reader/twitter tool or [...]

"I thought that I heard you laughing, I thought that I heard you sing, I think I thought I saw you try, but that was just a dream." #
Important lesson from the movie Atonement: always encrypt sensitive communications, especially love letters delivered by young children. #
Oh no, the U.S. military has realized that the Internet [...]

If I survived that high ropes course today, surely I can wean these kittens off of their bottles. #
What a lovely day, full of those moments C.S. Lewis described: "What! You, too? Thought I was the only one." #
Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet. [...]

One of the weird things about blogs is that, as much time as people put into creating interesting and useful content for them, it's rare that anyone goes to the trouble to read back through older entries unless they're really looking for something specific, or are otherwise very committed to the content.
I don't expect that [...]

Those of you who follow my blog may not always bother to check in on the other parts of my personal website, which is understandable since they're much more static than the weblog. I do try to use the actual home page of the site as a fairly current jumping off point for various [...]

I've upgraded the Wordpress software powering this blog to a more recent version, and added a few more ways to interact with my posts at the same time:

I'm now using Gravatars - "globally recognized avatars" - to display user-uploaded images next to the comments that people post. This creates a little bit better sense [...]

The feeds reminder and redux edition:

I've been updating my list of local blogs and bloggers in Richmond and Wayne County, Indiana. Check out the new additions, and if you have any blogs to suggest or corrections to make, please let me know.
My page of custom RSS feeds doesn't have a whole lot going on [...]

Are you brave enough to say no to a high-stress holiday? "The problem with Christmas is not the batteries. The problem isn't even really the stuff. The problem with Christmas is that no one much likes it anymore."
Richmond News Review podcast episode #23: Debate bid followup, buying local, media coverage gaps from last weekend.
And don't [...]

Another stop along the journey of trying to organize all the information in my life, without adding complexity:
I've been ignoring del.icio.us for a while now. I've seen little icons for it popping up on weblogs I read, seen references to it in articles on software and productivity (including one on my own company's weblog), [...]