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So I was recently contacted by Kristen over at Grass Roots Advertising. Kristen happened upon the site and wanted to know if I’d be interested in adding some ads on certain pages, pretty much just text with links. I was a little intrigued and we discussed it back and forth a bit; in [...]

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I recently broke down and got a pro account at Flickr so I could start hosting more of my images online. This one is from a trip to the coast last year with friends Alex, D and R. Feel free [...]

so we go inside
and we gravely read the stones –
all those people, all those lives
where are they now?
I see a schoolboy when I think of him,
With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window,
For certainly he sank into his grave
His senses and his heart unsatisfied,
And made – being poor, ailing and ignorant,
Shut out from [...]

Journalist Alan Weisman has a new book called The World Without Us, which discusses what would happen to the earth if, one day, all humans just vanished. There’s a great infographic on his site which starts with the day after tomorrow and shows some of the repercussions of our absence over the coming years. [...]

Inspired by sleepy Dawn and her birfday shoutout, I made a new page. It’s the Talkback page, linked to from the last tab in the header. If you just want to say hello, or have a general comment, here you go – this is the place to do it.

So, a few days ago (when I made that last post below actually), I found that – surprise, surprise – my site was down again. It’s a bit unnerving, as rarely as I actually work on amphichon these days, how often I find it down or broken when I do go to work on [...]

I doubt anyone is still keeping track of amphichon these days, it’s been awfully quiet. Just in case, though, I’m visiting Chicago this weekend (Thursday through Sunday) – if you’d like to get together, give me a holler, herichon@some-random-domain-that-just-might-be-the-one-you’re-looking-at.com.
In other news – not so much. Gaining weight, losing weight, quitting jobs, starting jobs, [...]

I hate to break such a long and pleasant silence on amphichon with such tragic news, but Kurt Vonnegut died today, and I miss him already.
Hello, babies. Welcome to earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you have about a hundred [...]

The folks at the National Priorities Project have been maintaining a counter at costofwar.com for a while now that estimates the current economic cost of our continuing misadventure in Iraq.
It’s a depressing number, especially when you watch it grow by thousands of dollars each second and consider (as they do on their site) [...]

Not that anyone has noticed, but for what it’s worth, our official code cleanup to validate against XHTML 1.0 Strict started on January 1, and the bulk of the site is now validating to Strict vs. the previous 1.0 Transitional. I updated the headers today, so the link in the lower right sidebar for [...]