FOB

An anonymous commenter just pointed out to me that image CAPTCHAs were broken on here again. I fixed it.

Those who have my email address handy, please send me email anytime you are struggling with the CAPTCHAs. They seem to be necessary to cut the amount of spam I have to moderate, but they sure are fragile.

FOB Cow from Disney's Steamboat Willie. Thanks to cartoonreviewsite.com for the capture, and to my wife for tracking it down.

I am trying out Twitter again, although I'm pretty skeptical. You should be able to see my latest Twitters again somewhere to your left, I think.

To be honest, this post is mostly a test of the Drupal Twitter stuff. I'll report more after I've had some experience with it.

I chose the 'nym "PO8" back in the 1980s at Reed, for use in IRC or Rogue or something; I forget. Basically, it replaced the 'nym I was using at the time, "Black Bart", because the Internet can't see color, and I was afraid that the term "Black" would carry unintended connotations for folks who didn't know the Western referent. So I chose the obscure 'nym the famous stagecoach robber used for himself. I also liked the irony, given the image of geeks at the time.

It's a short 'nym, and yet I figured it would be fairly unique. Imagine my chagrin when I tried to use it as an AOL screen name. There's lots of Po's in Asia; many more than eight, in fact.

Generally, though, PO8 has worked well for me, and I use it in a variety of places to this day.

Of course, no sooner did I upgrade to Drupal 5.3 than 5.4 and 5.5 immediately came out. I stalled around a while, but I've finally got my sites updated. Running Debian's Drupal bits really did help.