March 16, 2007
The End
At long last it has occurred. I am abandoning MovableType in favor of WordPress. You'll find the new blog at http://mjd.joskinandlob.com/wordpress/. The old one will stay here for nostalgia purposes.
What does this mean for you, faithful reader? Well, if you're reading this via RSS, you'd better reset your syndication to the following: http://mjd.joskinandlob.com/wordpress/?feed=rss2. If you're happy navigating to it via the web, you shouldn't have to do anything. I'm going to switch http://www.michaeljdeluca.com/ to point at the WordPress version, and your links won't be able to tell the difference.
All the comments got transferred. Amazing, isn't it? And one of the pluses of switching to WordPress is the Nonsentient Beings haven't found it yet, so I can leave comment moderation turned off until they do. Be fun to see how long that takes.
Fare Thee Well, Stunted Pine!
Hello, Mossy Skull.
Posted by mjd at 12:07 PM | Comments (0)
March 12, 2007
Why I love the Mayas
As if I needed another reason.
Apparently Boosh is planning a visit to some Mayan ruins in Guatemala. The modern Mayas are okay with that, but they are planning a cleansing ceremony for immediately following his departure, in order to cleanse the site of his bad vibes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6440639.stm
Courtesy of Luke.
Posted by mjd at 05:38 PM | Comments (0)
March 05, 2007
Interfictions Blog, Waffling
Dora Goss and Delia Sherman have made a Blogspot page to promote the Interfictions anthology. Which I am in. They even posted their afterword to the anthology for all to see. In which they compare me to Samuel Beckett. Woo.
http://interfictions.blogspot.com
Still waffling on the WordPress issue. I would be jumping right in, believe me, except that there are just so many wonderful little customizations I've made to this blog that I love and am loath to leave behind. But it'll probably happen eventually. When it does, you'll know.
Posted by mjd at 11:34 AM | Comments (0)
Desert Thinking
I came across this excellent article, whose argument about God and environmentalism and the advance of mankind runs very close to the ideas that inspired a story I'm writing, "The Tarrying Messenger".
Desert Thinking: Religion and Environmental Crisis by Chuck Groom
This is an emotionally precarious subject for me, as you will no doubt be aware if you've read at all into the backlog of this blog. I'm already worried I'll let the ideas run away with the story and turn it into a preachy mess, which will in turn force me to abandon the ideas and turn the story into something else. So please follow the link, and let this guy's persuasive talents accomplish what mine have not.
"Assuredly the creation
of the heavens
And the earth
Is a greater matter
Than the creation of humankind;
Yet most people understand it not."
--Koran, S.60.57, trans. Abdullah Yusaf Ali.
Posted by mjd at 10:49 AM | Comments (1)
