I created the TechBo blogs 3 years ago thinking that I could give artists and friends a fast, simple way to voice their thoughts on the internet. I pictured a small network of sites that locals could share thoughts.

Well, that never happened. In fact, other than my own ramblings, only the stalwart Xyon has posted anything in the last year and that was many months ago on his birding journal.

Complicating manners, b2evolution, the excellent blogging software that I use has a fatal flaw. I chose it because of it's anti-spam capabilities, but the anti-spam is too agressive, so a user is often unable to use more than a single html link in the entire post. Limiting at the very least.

I'm going to give it a couple more weeks then take the TechBo blogs to the house. Instead of multi-blogs, I'll be setting up more feature-rich and advanced blogs on an as-needed basis.

My own blog will be a drupal blog to be announced. I'm going to try to make it more personalized and feature rich than even TechBo. Other than a few general ideas, I don't know what it's final purpose will be, but it will definitely be me.

Movies and TV I've watched since Thursday, December 23:

The Lost Room (SciFi Channel)- Wow, this mini-series took the Friday the 13th Series plot of recovering objects with mysterious powers and transcended! This was a modern classic! Lets hope the series can A) be greenlighted and B) Keep up the quality.

Eragon- A chick's fantasy movie. Lots of dealing with feelings and huggy moments with some cool fantasy action interspersed. It's nice to see characters in a film actually cast magic. I'd give it a solid C+.

A Scanner Darkly- I loved the Philip K. Dick story and this "adaptation" doesn't disappoint. Don't look for a lighthearted cartoon here, this is about the dark side of addiction and society. I thought it was a B

The Davinci Code- They had to compress the heck out of the book, but they did a good job. Although it sometimes pushed credibility, it was a solid adaptation. C (Average)

Torchwood Episode 11- Ever since episode 10, this show has been on fire! It had a shaky and somewhat confused start, but the last couple stories have been just incredible twists on genre staples. The Cardiff Torchwood gang still behave like a UFO Club, but the show just keeps delving into darker and darker places. Very fresh! B+

Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride - Absolutely classic. Catherine Tate, talented British Comedienne plays a super-normal secretary that impossibly appears inside the TARDIS at the end of last season's finale. This is a great, great bit of television, manic, hilarious, and touching, the writing is just incredible. Works on every possible level. A+

The Big Lebowski - I hadn't seen this Cohen Brothers comedy since opening day in 1998. It's just one of the best. Everything is right. A

Grrr...Lost Dragons.org's url has expired. I want to move it to a new registrar, but it's going to cost $16.

Irritating.

My sister just had a baby!

I've got to get to the hospital!

Whooo!

Thanks to Mr. Vesham's timely visit last night, I've installed Imagemagick to the server. Image Magick is a program that sites can use to scale photographs and images without losing a lot of quality. It's working perfectly on the JCWiki (http://jcwiki.technobohemia.net,) but Gallery 2 is not wanting to play nice.

The Gallery 2 problem seems to be a fairly common one, but I can't yet find a solution that doesn't require a programmer.

Still, images on the JCWiki look great.