I'm starting up a new web site called WikiBasics.  This will be a Wikipedia-style web site that allows people to share recipes, techniques and so on for simple living.  For example, my first contribution is going to be how to bake sourdough bread from scratch.

"The telephone was an aberration in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else's life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone's living room and start shouting." -- Rick Webb

"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.  Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies.  Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room." -- Henry Kissinger

So I've decided on a name for the game that I'm developing:

Feralor

Pronounced "fer-a-lohr".  Woot!  I'm still working on development right now, but I should have something you can log in to up on this site soon.

I've been working on a Gallery module for Drupal as I am totally unhappy with the other offerings out there, and I'm happy to say that version 0.1 is up and running on this site right now!  Check out my first two galleries that I've uploaded!  There are certainly more features to come and I'll post more information about them here when I'm ready.

We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbor.
We build more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies then ever,
but have less communication;
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.

So I have actually made some progress on my game this past week.  Specifically, I've ported over almost everything I had on the stand-alone site to Drupal, and I've got a lot of administrative back-end functionality that I didn't have before.  I'm in the process of porting over the user-facing elements (the ability to create toons, view other people's toons, browse the game encyclopedia and so on) and should have those done shortly.

So I finally took the plunge this weekend and converted my home FreeBSD workstation/server to have a single root ZFS partition.  Setting it up was something of a challenge, but in hindsight the steps were pretty easy.

When I was a kid, we had a 55-gallon fish tank in our living room.  Since then, I've almost always had a fish tank everywhere I've lived.  Up until now, I've lived in apartments or rentals that had something like a 10-gallon limit, so my tanks have been pretty small.

I was just flipping through some old XKCD comics and I found this one: