Comedy Central just had the Scientology episode of South Park on re-run. OMFG, too awesome. I didn't laugh as hard as I did at some other episodes, but I just love it when they take pokes at crazy movies stars. Plus anyone who works at outing Scientology gets a plus in my book. And the voice actor for John Travolta was so great, and his lines where so classic. Ah. Good times.

Just upgraded the MoveableType system to 3.31 from 2.661. I notice they are including spam plugins by default now so I'm going to turn on commenting and see if things are better.

One of my favorite book series is the fantasy series by George R. R. Martin, A song of Ice and Fire. He's not afraid to do really nasty things (like kill or blind) to major characters and he's characters aren't as one dimensional as so many other fantasy books. You'll end up liking or respect the "bad guys" and finding the shallow points and dark sides of the "good guys". Certainly there are some characters who have a certain moral compass that puts them above so many others. All-in-all it is a fabulous series and I can't wait for the next book to come out.

Meanwhile I've been reading Wars of the Roses, by Allison Weir, and have found it amazing that the story of the kings and nobility of England was easily as crazy and dramatic as Martin's books. The back-stabbing and political manipulation is just constant and the rule of the king was often very questionable in a time that had some many nobles willing to step on the lower classes to secure power and riches for themselves and their families. I'm only about half way through the book and the Wars are just starting. Wier spent a bunch of time laying the foundation of corruption and misrule that led to the Wars of the Roses. In particular the rule of Henry VI was just pathetic and seems to me to be the main reason England lost France ( the 100 years war ended during his reign with the ousting of England from France ) and the cause of much of the infighting amongst the Magnates of England. Just amazing.

Weir has several other books and I'm surely going to be picking them up as they are well written and so fascinating. Who needs fiction when non-fiction is just as stimulating!

I was just checking my website tracking, something I've not done for a long time. It was interesting but not too surprising to see that most of my traffic (and there's not much) is coming from Songbird and is going to my Extension Tutorial. I guess it's time to take another look at it and clean it up.

I should also probably look in to getting my commenting back online so that people can leave me comments and questions.

Things are going well with Songbird these days. We're in the process of cleaning up a bunch of interfaces and preparing for the 0.2 release, the date of which is still not determined!!! So don't go saying I said it was on such-and-such a date. Because it's not!