I’ve never really been interested in abolishing the electoral college, that quirky part of our presidential elections created by those men in powdered wigs. Now, however, after reading this article, I’m a firm supporter of the system. Of course, as the election draws near, this’ll be a hot topic in the media. And now I’ll be ready.

This weblog has a section titled “Overly Dramatic Morrissey Quotation of the day”. This, I like.

Cheesemaking again. Of course, I didn’t check the obvious url, and it seems to be the best. www.cheesemaking.com is home to the New England Cheesemaking Supply Company. I just gave them $20, and now they’re sending me everything I need to make 30 pounds of fresh mozzarella. There’s no stopping me now!

I want to make cheese. Fresh mozzarella is so very good, but so very expensive. Here’re two links I’ve found: The Cheeze Wizard and the meta-link from about.com Cheesemaking.

I need to find a local source of cultures and what-not, and then I’ll let you know how it goes.

SimShatner(tm) is the most advanced William Shatner Acting Simulation to-date, featuring all ranges of this revered celebrity’s amazing acting spectrum!

I really enjoyed this movie review. Actually, it’s more a review of the “going-to-the-movies” experience.

Got GIFs? How’d you make them? It seems UNISYS is again agressively pursuing royalties on its patent for the compression algorithm used to make GIFs. Essentially just a mathmatical equation, UNISYS has the legal rights to it nonetheless. They never cared much until the web came along, and now GIFs are all over the place. What can you do? Use PNGs instead. There’s nicely written article on the subject.

Well, if this isn’t the most handy thing. Thanks to a hot tip from Peter Merholtz, I’ve fallen for Blogger. It’s a wonderful tool that lets me get around my ISP’s FTP policy (Somehow… I don’t understand, but I’m not going to poke at it, either). Woo hoo!

It’s harder than I’d hoped to keep this page up. My ISP (nbank.net, formerly athens.net) has some sort of FTP restriction that keeps me from accessing my files unless I’m physically dialed in to their network on their modems. Why would they do such a thing? They claim it’s some sort of anti-spam protection, but that makes absolutely no sense to me. What it does mean is I can’t upload new pages from work, which planned. I’ve no computer at home, so until the ISP changes their ways or I revolt and move, this page will get updated “catch as catch can”.

Well, I had a good visit. To any of my classmates reading this: I’m glad I went. It was good to see everyone. It was especially interesting to see who had changed (mostly for the better), and those that hadn’t. It was especially good to see my buddies Scott and Ryan. There were a lot of people I had hoped to see that weren’t there, and another ten years might go by before I get another change.