The first big change is that I’ve tweaked a lot of the backend stuff on here, so things should be faster and more responsive.  This also means that stuff is now cached, and that might have some reprecussions for those who use RSS readers to read my blog.  In the grand scheme of things, it probably won’t matter much, as I don’t think anybody really needs to be watching my ramblings on here “up to the nanosecond”.

Another thing I’ve been working on is to fully integrate the pictures site into the blog engine.  I’ve achieved 80% integration: what this effectively means is that I can inline pictures from the photo gallery seamlessly.  Eventually, you’ll be able to use the authentication here in WordPress to comment on pictures over in the gallery.

That would mean something if the authentication worked.  I guess I should fix that, huh (for those who don’t know: when I first set this blog up you could log in with Google and OpenID.. that’s been broken for some time).

Okay, I guess I should stop playing with my blog and actually go to my so-called job.

The 503-564 number was a Google Voice number. It has been changed to a 503-451 number (although the 503-564 number will continue to work for three months, according to Google Voice). This is my primary contact number: it is the one most of you should be calling most of the time, and is suitable for release to others. As it is a Google Voice number, it can accept SMS text-only messages. It cannot accept multimedia. The Google Voice number rings every phone I have all the time.

The 503-442 number is my (primary) cell phone. While it can be called directly in certain situations, I consider it to be a number to be used only when expedience is required. Note that I tend to leave my cell phone in the car, or often go without charging it in the evening and it dies.

Note that I have at least three other phone numbers. As a rule, these are used sporadically and probably aren’t reliable. I try to not expose those numbers, but I sometimes forget and grab the “backup cell” and call people without routing the call through Google Voice. Yeah, it happens.

Ham Radio Station N0DOS

So, I’ve been working on setting up the ham radio station.  This is what it looks like at present.

Density.