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OK, not so much. But I did add a logo…a hand-drawn piece of artistic genius by my SIL Jessie (she of the excellent Bloggity Blog, which you really should be reading. She’s a castaway on a tiny caribbean island, no joke).

I was inspired by the mouse-drawn art on her own blog (like the gem at right), so I asked her to draw something for me.

“What do you want?” she asked. I replied that I hoped for “something that encapsulates the idea of the ‘brain feed’–a real-time RSS feed of the mind, constantly streaming new bits and bytes of information straight from gray matter to the web at large. But the brain feed is bigger than the web, which can be controlled by firewalls, hackers, and dictators. The brain feed is a single input into the collective soul, which can’t be controlled, filtered, or diminished, only added to.”

She came back with a crude picture of a brain with teeth. Her idea was better. Hope you like it too.

I’ve been telling myself for years that I need to apply a little more vanity to my vanity site–that old three-column Blogger design that I’d cobbled together was rotten and ugly. The only reason I was attached to it was because the template was my first (and only) CSS project. Turns out I’m not all that good at CSS!

Anyway, finally migrated over to WordPress. It was a quick and easy process, but I have a lot of tweaks to make still. I realize only you non-RSS-reader readers will even notice a difference, and that the number of actual site visitors rounds out to about zero, but whatever. Personal triumphs.

BTW, I really need a good horizontal zombie image for the header art, to complete the Brain Feed pun. Anyone have any good pics of zombies? Maybe an undead sibling eating the family pet? Nothing TOO graphic…

Blech, so I thought I had my blog all fixed, but www.kylemonson.com pointed to this blog, while kylemonson.com pointed to some placeholder page I made 5 years ago. Yahoo’s domain service for some reason wouldn’t let me replace kylemonson.com’s A Record with the Blogger CNAME info, nor could I forward kylemonson.com to www.kylemonson.com. Gah.

So, if you type in kylemonson.com, Yahoo will redirect you to kylemonson.blogspot.com, from whence Blogger will redirect you to www.kylemonson.com. It seems to work, but it also seems pretty ridiculous.

My blog decided to take a week-long hiatus. Apparently the Google Blogger platform changed some of its server policies for custom domains, so I had to…

…oh, I’m boring you? Ok. Anyway, the blog is back. Hooray blog!

For my next trick, I will use predicate logic to explain why I haven’t been blogging very much lately (BTW, “A ⊃ B” means “If A then B”):

Bear Stearns goes bankrupt ⊃ Bear Stearns gets bought by JP Morgan ⊃ Corinne is in limbo at work ⊃ Corinne no longer needs to be at work at 8 am ⊃ Corinne no longer needs to wake up at 6:30 am ⊃ Corinne can stay up late with Kyle ⊃ Kyle’s night-owlism involves watching Arrested Development with his wife ⊃ Kyle doesn’t blog much anymore.

Therefore, if Bear Stearns goes bankrupt, Kyle doesn’t blog much anymore. It’s a long causal chain. I’ll get back to blogging soon though, and in the meantime, I’m updating twitter regularly (twitter.com/kmonson).