• The Never-Ending Bloga

    New Flailing Project

    Elise made me think I could do it; Moveable Blog’s “Asides” template may point me to a solution to a niggling little problem in a flailing project that’s almost ready for the main stage. If I get it to work, there will be a short sideblog of quick links on the left column; this will tend to get the quick choppy link-only posts out of the way of the content. Also, it’ll be quicker to jump in and out with a new link for those time when I gotta blog from work. I’ll have to cut down on workaday blogging…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Warming Those Cockles

    My mom often says this about any hot coffee drink with a shot of Bailey’s or other liqueur added: “that’ll warm the cockles of your heart.” Interesting discussion on the derivation. In the meantime, cockle picking (something like clam-digging, apparently) is still done in Britain, and it can be dangerous.