Blogging the Light Fantastic.

the headache

Headaches are bogus.

Normally there’s a nice few-minute spread of time when one wakes up when they’re generally somewhere between sleep and awake, unable to tell one from the other with any sort of ease. I’ve lost that - I wake up to sharp pains in my left temple.

Happily, I was prescribed some pain meds and antibiotics today. With a little luck, things will clear up in a few days.

Makeshift

I love:

• Tumblr’s interface
• The simplicity of posting
• The idea of stress-free site publishing

•  Tumblr’s lack of support for backend development
  • and comments
  • and post tags
  • and self-hosting
• Migraines
• Scary movies (esp. w/ zombies)

So even with it’s flaws, Tumblr still does more good than evil.

I’m going to give this a shot without comments (tried both Haloscan and JS-Kit to no avail) and without interactive post tags - for the time being. I can see usable post tags becoming a tumblr convention first (and I’m prepared - see the makeshift tag cloud above), but there are too many roadblocks for me to have comments right now (unless there is some sort of public outcry and/or suggested medium).

So, I suppose that makes this site relatively makeshift. I can deal with that. Starting over can be nice - you’re reading the blog of a guy who left Canada and moved 2,100 miles out to the desert (and couldn’t be happier).

Last thing - the archives from the previous site are gone - I’ll pick and choose a few of them to repost every now and again, but for the most part this is a nice, fresh, makeshift start.

Enjoy!

dear everybody,

Don’t freak out or anything - after more than two years, I just figured that PhilRenaud.com needed to be refreshed, both in look and in function.

The previous design lasted just over a year, which is a pretty good run for the blog of an indecisive designer. The truth is that I just needed a bit of a kick in the pants to get myself geared up to want to blog again. Hopefully this does the trick.

You’ll see the design evolve over the next few days (weeks?), so no need to worry if something looks a bit off-kilter.