What is the sound of one geek clapping?

In case you’re not quite sure of why there are some posts here that are several years old: I’m copying over some of my “columns” from the old website, because they get read (some of them, at least, and quite a bit, too) and I figured they should be here, too.

I’ve moved my site, this time to a real hosting environment, and decided that it’s time that I redesigned the site as well. I’ve decided I’m going to treat this as more of a blogging-style site than anything else, as it’s rarely read anyway, and why not follow the rest of the pack?