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I forgot to mention that you can now decide how many days worth of posts you’d like to see on the home page. Just visit the preferences page and set your preferred value!

This is my first official Blogger-less post! The archive listing page and the last five comments functionality are currently disabled, but everything else should be up and running. The comments system now works a bit differently, in that each post has its own page where comments are added and recorded. Try and it and let me know what you think!

I know I’ve said this a hundred times before, but this is my last post before implementing the new Blogger-less system tonight. I think it’s ready, folks! Seriously.

This Salon article “Old and in the family way” talks about the “quality of life” issues associated with having a baby late in life. It’s an interesting read. I know I would definitely want to have my own life and career before settling down to raise kids, but do I really want to be 55 and running after a teenager? Also, the author neglects to talk about a situation I’m currently experiencing: that of the parent who had kids at a young age, and is now adding to the family again 25 years later. How old are your parents/kids? Would you have preferred it differently?

What a gorgeous day in London! Actually this is the third beautiful day we’ve had in a row. That can mean only one thing: this coming three-day holiday weekend is going to be miserable. But until then I’m just enjoying the sunshine and warm temperatures. Snookums and I had lunch in the park on Monday, slurping on Icee-Pops (actually they were called “Space Alien Sabres”) bought from the newsagent and acting like 8-year-olds. *sigh* London summer almost makes up for London winter. Almost.
 
Check out these webcam views and see for yourself:
 

Which reminds me, I also updated the code for my comment system. You only need to download the fix if you’re using the last five comments functionality.

I got a nice e-mail this morning from Mick, the webmaster of Game-Cheatz.com. He’s implementing my poll system and found a bug. I’ve updated the source code at my site, so if you’re trying to use my system, you’ll want to make sure you’ve got the fixed version. Thanks Mick!

Apple: the only cult it’s cool to join. 🙂

So yeah, Snookums and I saw “The Mummy Returns” last Friday. It sucked. I thought that the fighting was good, but the effects were crap and it wasn’t funny at all. I wanted to see more stuff like when Brendan Fraser scared off the Mummy with a cat. And where John Hannah joined the zombies and started chanting “Imhotep…” This movie didn’t have any of that. Don’t even get me started on “The Rock”, either. His part was about five minutes long and I certainly wasn’t very impressed. And the whole bit with him as the Scorpion King at the end featured the worst CGI work I’ve seen since “Tron”. It looked like a video game! And lastly, I couldn’t decide if Brendan Fraser’s ass was supposed to be that big (as a kind of a joke, since his character had been married for nine years or whatever), or whether he’s just chunked up. I vote for “chunked up.”

Chris Cornell, the former singer from Soundgarden, has officially joined Rage Against the Machine. Very cool. I remember when Cornell finally cut off his long head-banger hair back in the 90’s. It was like, “Wow! He’s pretty hot. When did that happen?”