I wrote a post a day or so ago wherein I described the standard ways to identify yourself on my WordPress blog when commenting. I did so mostly because I had heard rumours that people were having problems commenting, and I couldn’t recreate said problems. I thought explaining the process a bit might help.
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Blaugust 2026 has added some rules regarding use of artificial intelligence for content included in the festival. Magi over at Indiecator had an excellent overview of his thinking on the topic, which inspired me to do a bit of my own soul searching.
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I would like to make it easy for people to comment on this blog, and I think I’ve taken reasonable steps to do so. But it always seems as if there is something that makes it hard or confusing, and I’m not sure how to “fix” that.
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Blaugust is now underway and, if I know myself, I’m busy reading the posts produced by everyone else. Keeping up with other people’s blogging is where I find my happiness in Blaugust.
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The 2026 edition of Blaugust is arriving in less than two weeks. I’m not at all prepared, but I do plan on participating in a rough and ready fashion as is my usual approach. If you blog at all you should sign up and participate as much or as little as you can.
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I just finished re-reading Tailchaser’s song after more than thirty years. I can say without reservation that it is worth a read for anyone who loves fantasy and at least likes cats. But it is also surprisingly good at making me read poetry without complaint.
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I learned yesterday that Belghast (Mark Temple) had died just a few days ago. The shock hit me hard despite the fact that I barely knew him. Cancer took him from the world as it does so many, a year to the day after it took his wife.
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A few months ago over the Christmas holiday season I had a mental breakdown. I documented it a bit in previous posts, but there has been a significant gap of days in my accounting.
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Sometimes I look back on something I bought a few years ago and ask myself “why?” But today I hit a mental block that stumped both myself and my wife- we own a baby gate that neither of us could make sense of.
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Irene and I went to see Bill Cosby back in 2007. We enjoyed him, and I had a number of complimentary things to say about his performance. A link to this popped up at the bottom of one of my posts as a ‘related item’.
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