Note to former Org members
Tue, 2009-11-17 22:48 — lynxInsecurities.org is a domain with a history. I'm a (very small) part of that history myself, having had an email forwarding account here for lo very many years, but that was pretty much all i ever did here. I never had any very close interactions with any of the other folks who were insecurities.org, except Eq, and him only barely and long ago.
But that doesn't mean i want that history to be forgotten, necessarily. If you've had an account at — or, really, anything at all to do with — insecurities before, feel free to contact me (lynx) and tell your story. I can set you up with an account here, if you want one, or just lend an archivist's ear to your tales of who and what's been insecure in days gone by. I'm a sucker for sentimental, nostalgic stuff like that.
Oldbies always welcome, in other words. The virtual pub is open.
new year's resolution
Fri, 2010-01-01 15:17 — lynxto spend 20-30 minutes each day practising my handwriting.
i hate my handwriting. i've had crappy, unreadable writing for thirty years now, and i figure that's a quarter century too long. folks online claim that 15-20 minutes a day of practice can get you results in a few weeks, and that sounds way too good to be true, but easy enough to put to the test.
Feeling a little Prousty
Thu, 2009-12-24 22:33 — lynxalthough wasn't it a kind of cookie, for him? me, i had forgotten what fountain pen ink smelled like.
i'm sure that's not right; there must be dozens of different kinds of inks used in fountain pens, each with different smells. the black ink i use in my japanese-made pen today surely can't be that much like the blue ink i used in my grade school-issued, german-made fountain pen all those years and years ago. but it smells the same, and until i smelled it, i had forgotten that fountain pen inks have a smell at all.
high tech luddism
Sun, 2009-12-20 15:21 — lynxthis househould of mine may be falling prey to some sort of pseudo-luddism, and i think i may be the source of it.
sort of weird, for a home with two computer geeks in it, and me earning my living as a programmer no less. but hear me out.
Apologies are in order
Sun, 2009-12-13 19:23 — lynxMy apologies to Eq and euclid for taking unforgivably long to approve their comments. I plead stupidity — I wasn't watching the right part of Drupal's administrivial UI, and wasn't getting sent emails about things that needed my attention, either. I found out the hard way, and pledge to do better in the future.
Front Page
Sat, 2009-11-21 21:18 — lynxNo, i won't apologize for the front page's content being considerably shorter than the stylesheet used to display it. I just won't, and you'll just have to deal with that.
Learning Drupal
Fri, 2009-11-20 21:16 — lynxThis site's slowly growing up as i learn how to configure Drupal better. Still much to do, though, and the byzantine permissions system isn't helping me climb the learning curve.
I've got a "primary links" menu enabled that looks really nice — if you're logged in. I want to enable it for everybody, even anonymous guests with no user account. How to do it? Still learning...
Website germinating
This site isn't "under construction", because it hasn't been 1995 in a long, long while.
Besides, that old term implies construction work going on, as well as the eventuality of something being constructed, completed, and done. I think we all gave up that expectation of websites about the time folks stopped putting "under construction" .gifs on their vanity pages.
This is more like gardening work; occasional, sporadic effort that's always ongoing, never ending, and of highly uncertain — assuredly unplanned — outcome. Right now, for instance, i've planted the seed of a main front page in the back of my brain, but nothing has as yet sprouted.
No jokes about fertilizer. Those got old before anybody even started making them.
