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You know what would be cool? If Mike updated his blog while I’m on vacation. That would be cool.

You know what would be even cooler? If Mike switched to Movable Type while I’m on vacation. Mammothconcepts.com has everything you need, dude. You should try it; you’ll like it.

Boy, does my template need some frickin’ work. I went with one of the default templates/styles for Movable Type, and it’s nice enough to look at it, but it looks like all the other Movable Type weblogs out there. I’ll work on some graphics while I’m away.

Dave is finally using Frequency as his main blogging tool. I provided him with an early beta of 1.2 that supports Movable Type.

I leave for the Outer Banks on Friday. This weblog will be idle for a while. I expect lots of comments on this story when I return.

I just can’t decide what to make of this. It’s weird, and probably sacrilege, but it’s funny.

I’ve also switched to MovableType. This should give me sufficient motivation to get Frequency working well with MT. I’m keeping my Frequency Dev Journal on Blogger for now. This means, unfortunately, that all comments were lost. However, the site should be way faster now. I still need to dig out my old articles and put them up, and the template needs major work, but things are progressing nicely. I’m currently in the process of putting titles onto all of my old posts.

I don’t know where this came from originally, but Nicole sent it to me today, and I love it.
1. The dog lives here. You don’t.
2. If you don’t want dog hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture.
3. Yes, he has some disgusting habits. So do I, and so do you. What’s your point?
4. Of course he smells like a dog.
5. It’s his nature to sniff your crotch. Feel free to sniff his.
6. I like him a lot better than I like most people.
7. To you he’s a dog. To me he’s an adopted son, who is short, hairy, walks on all fours, and doesn’t speak clearly. I have no problem with any of these things.
8. Dogs are better than kids. They eat less, don’t ask for money all the time, are easier to train, usually come when called, never drive your car, don’t smoke or drink, don’t worry about whether they have the latest fashions, don’t wear your clothes, don’t need a gazillion dollars for college, and if they accidentally get another dog pregnant… you can sell the pups.

Dave has left the building and entered the brave new world of MovableType. Very cool. Good for him.

Jen’s Grandma jammed with us tonight, following Grace’s fourth birthday party. Granted, we jammed on hymns, but it was fun anyway. She and her late husband were in a combo together for years. They played at various churches and nursing homes. When he passed away last summer, she was forced to move from their house into an apartment, so she had to downsize, and gave away a lot of things. She asked all the grandchildren what they wanted. While everyone else tried to figured out which antiques and pieces of furniture they wanted, Jen and I said to each other, “Wouldn’t it be too cool to have Grandpa’s accordion?” Grandma thought it was a great idea, and graciously gave it to us.

Tonight she got it out while she was here and played some songs for us. Then she asked if Jen and I would get out our instruments and play some songs with her. We were more than happy to.

It’s funny, back when Jen and I were still in a band, no one was more supportive of us than Grandma Becker, even though I’m sure she thought our music was mostly noise. She’s a neat lady. I’m lucky to know her.

I wish I’d gotten to know Grandpa Becker better before he died. The last photograph of him was taken just a year ago, at Grace’s third birthday party. He died less than a month later.

More on the Open Apple/Closed Apple saga from Joe Strout:

Both the Open Apple and the Closed Apple were actually paddle buttons, malady and typically were used only for games — situated to the left and right of the scrollbar, they were perfect for things like pinball. Open-Apple did not have any meaning as a modifier key until Appleworks (the original one, not ClarisWorks which came much later) started using it that way, and even then, it was just the convention of that program, not a platform standard.