Dan Posluns » helio http://blog.danposluns.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:51:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Bet on the wrong horse http://blog.danposluns.com/posts/3 http://blog.danposluns.com/posts/3#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:53:36 +0000 Dan Posluns http://69.89.31.249/~danposlu/blog/?p=3 I wish I had something more ceremonious around which to mark this turn of events… my landmark 300th post would’ve been coming up a few months from now, and the fourth anniversary of my starting a blog was only a few months ago. As it happened it was just time for me to switch hosting companies, and when I did I took the opportunity to switch to new blogging software. BBlog served me as well as I suppose it could, but as blogging software goes it’s long-dead now and buried in an undead zombie graveyard overflowing with comment spammers, and it was driving me seriously batty. Sometimes you just bet on the wrong horse, ya know?

So I’ve restored my old blog and you can access it from the links at the right, but I’ve shut down new comments and it doesn’t exist as anything more than archival of what once was. Long live WordPress…! (At least I hope so.) Please be patient with me as I figure out the kinks of this new system.

In other news, I saw WALL-E today. I had every expectation of it being like other Pixar epics: beautiful and heartwrenching. I was not disappointed. *shakes fist at Pixar*

As the geese go through their disgusting adolescence, a reprieve comes in the form of a family of ducks that’s moved into the area at work… a mother and the most adorable little hatchlings that I caught on my cameraphone as I edged my way closer and closer to them on my belly in the grass, mosquitoes and goosepoop be damned.

On the subject of my phone, I mentioned in my last post on my former blog how I was considering getting the new iPhone… well it seems that decision has now been cinched for me, as Helio has announced its acquisition by Virgin Mobile. Virgin is the company whose billionaire playboy owner/CEO Richard Branson called net neutrality a load of bollocks, so I’m perfectly happy allowing his purchase of my wireless carrier to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Come July, say hello, iPhone!

Dan.

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