….instead of pasting images of His Majesty the Thumbsucker into blog posts and writing quippy comments.

recent changes to the Blogroll:

• Southern Beale ~ she’s a Scorpio AND a photographer, so i almost wouldn’t give a crap about her political affiliation, but that seems properly aligned as well. added today via a link from Sadly NO!
• Cap’n Dyke ~ she’s just cool, and being a RenFaire freak, i can get into the piratey improprieties just fine. added last week, methinks.
• ClapSo ~ also added when i moved the blog to this domain, i believe. i very much enjoy his perspective.

You may have noticed some slight changes to this here bloggy-place I call “the otherwhirled”.

Maybe. Even though the thingy on the right says only ten of you subscribe to my RSS feed, the server metrics software claims I get over 150 pulls on the standard feed URI daily (even though feedburner is supposed to divert those requests to itself), so it’s quite possible that many of you have no idea what the site looks like at all!

At any rate, I added a Google Gadget to the bottom of the left side-bar on the right (and the left side-bar is on the right almost exclusively so that I could refer to it as the “left side-bar on the right”) because Mrs. Other was somewhat responsible for its creation. Or actually very responsible. And because I think it’s just nice to see a government initiative that is genuinely focused on finding ways to make beneficial use of old satellite data instead finding ways to use it against the citizenry.

I also finally found a decent social bookmarking plugin. I use these things a lot, when they exist on the blogs I read, and I’d like to ask you to do the same in return. More people should be aware of my ineffectual ramblings, after all. The plugin supports something like over fifty social bookmarking networks, so if you don’t see one that you prefer to use, drop me a comment and I’ll add it in.

Yeah, I still can’t bring myself to put GW’s vacant stare on my blog today, sorry. We’ll return to the regular programming later this afternoon.