“Groovy Motherfucker”

Good(?) Housekeeping

I’ve been doing some tidying up here on the site. There were a bunch of things I’ve been meaning to do for a while.

• The Atom feed for the main site now includes “Groovy Links”. Since I’m doing far more link-posting than actual blogging, this seemed like a smart move.
• I’ve “soft-retired” the RSS feed. Maintaining two feed formats is too much hassle. Since Atom allows me to do more than RSS, and almost all feedreaders support it, I’ve set the RSS feed to only contain entry titles. You are cordially invited to resubscribe to the Atom feed, which contains full posts.
• I did some cleaning-up of the HTML and CSS for the site. I think it looks a lot better, but then I would, wouldn’t I.

Comments on all this are welcomed with open arms.

“Work”ing from “Home”

For most of my professional life, “Working from Home” has been little more than a euphemism for “Taking a day off without using a vacation day”. It’s up there with “Dentist’s Appointment” being roughly equivalent to “Job Interview”.

But this week, I’m working from home, and will actually need to do work. At home! Due to the laugh-a-minute hijinks that is the DNC, with its associated road closures, there’s no way I’m setting foot (or tyre, as would be more appropriate) on I-93, which is the stretch of tarmac between my home and office.

This is a bit of a problem, since I will be in a location containing a couch, a bed, two TiVos, a bunch of books I haven’t read, and a stack of DVDs I haven’t watched.

Anyone got any useful advice on forcing myself to actually do some work?