Here's what I did this weekend:

These have been in my bookmark collection for a while and it's time for them to see the light of day.

Got back yesterday from the first Civil War reenactment of the weekend, at Knight's Ferry.  KF is a very small town 11 miles east of the mighty metropolis of Oakdale.  (Basically on the way to Yosemite.)  Originally there was a man named Mr.

If you read my blog, odds are you're using Firefox--48%, vs. 35% for Internet Explorer.  (Incidentally, this is way above average; I guess my readers are much smarter than average!)  Most of you are running Firefox on Windows (54%) so you don't need to worry about Firefox playing nice with KDE.  However, a full quarter of you (26%) are running OpenSUSE.  Keep reading.

I'm the guy at Costco who buys the giant boxes of diapers, baby wipes, and formula.  All at once.  (I did also get myself a case of beer, but don't think that wasn't also related.  Paul Simon was right: "You are the burden of my generation.  I sure do love you, but let's get that straight.")

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Movie adaptations rarely satisfy. This is true not just of written material (like Lord of the Rings) but also movie adaptations of TV shows. (Let's be honest: Serenity was not as satsfying as Firefly.) The same, naturally, applies to comic books as well. I think it's mostly due to the limits of the medium. A novel can be hundreds of pages, a TV show can go for years, and even a comic book is too long and complex to be compressed to a 90 minute film.

I just wanted a Wordpress plugin that would publish to my Facebook news feed.  Turns out such a thing doesn't exist.  The best alternative is Wordbook, which will publish new blog posts to my Facebook profile.  So if you're on Facebook and you want to see if Jordan has a new blog post, you have to visit my profile.  This is less convenient than using an RSS feed or subscribing, both of which were already available on my blog.  So I don't know why I bothered.  Ah well.

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My posts now automatically appear on my Facebook feed.  This kinda kills the point of Facebook's new reorganization.  I've read that the reason they changed things yet again was to compete with Twitter, a program that lets you quickly update your status any time.  I don't "tweet," at least not yet, but if I'm going to make announcements online I'm more likely to do it through my blog anyway.  Now that my blog is connected to Facebook, I'm much less likely to use the Facebook status update feature any more.