http://silver-starlight.net/blog the ravings of the questioning Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:47:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I tried to get on this blog today only to discover that, in migrating my site to a new server, rent a car bulgariamy hosting company had entirely lost the contents of my blog. Everything, gone. I was able to locate a working backup from March, and I've restored the ... http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/09/24/six-months-gone/ This BBC article about the controversy of an Australian mayor in a small mining town suggesting that “with five blokes to every girl, may I suggest that beauty-disadvantaged women should proceed to Mount Isa” is my newest please-tell-me-someone-did-not-really-say-that moment. It could just be a mishap, right? No. ... http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/08/18/newsflash-this-is-not-okay/ On a whim I added nine new wallpapers to Gnomicons tonight. All of them are based around photographs I’ve taken in the last seven months. Take a look. I hope you enjoy them! http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/07/29/29-july-2008-gnomicons-update/ It’s been a long while since I had any photographic updates, and, over the weekend, I uploaded a hundred or so images from the past few months. Some of my favorites are displayed after the jump. From the category of obsessive-flower-photo-taking, I bring you an additional 12 flower ... http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/07/14/in-which-i-share-photos/ Between yesterday evening and this morning, I finally enacted a plan that’s been niggling at me for months and months now - namely I modded my old Xbox to run XBMC. I did so on the cheap, using a refurbished Linksys gaming adapter ($40) to hook the console up to ... http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/06/26/xbox-project/ Finally, I’ve managed to take care of the domain hack that kept things silent here for a couple weeks. It’s good to be back. In the meantime, things have been frustrating in the real world and I’ve been back and forth and traveling and moving equipment at work and all such ... http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/06/17/and-were-back-2/ My bank account tells me that the government just gave me $600. Do I go spend that toward the $1100 plane ticket to Dublin in July for mebeli????????Oxegen with B and L, or do I save that money for more surprise medical bills like the $330 one I got last ... http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/05/08/monetarily-speaking/ I think I’m now approaching the milestone of being two whole months behind on blog updates for important (to me, anyway) events like trips, concerts, and fun events. There really aren’t any good excuses to offer for this except that these last couple months have been rough for me. Getting ... http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/05/07/well-behind/ Last weekend while I was in Cleveland, Mark gave me Volume One of The Sandman, which, as I probably could have guessed, I loved. I’ve never been much of a comic book person, but I have a proven track record of loving Neil Gaiman’s work, so none of this comes ... http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/04/21/the-sandman/ Tonight was one of those nights where I furiously uploaded photos taken in the past several weeks. The big additions are three new albums: spring flowers, my sister and I on the playground, and this weekend’s trip to Cleveland. I highlight a few of my favorites from each behind the ... http://silver-starlight.net/blog/2008/04/15/recent-images/