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We’re upgrading our blog from an older version of WordPress to a fancy new version. While I’m doing that, I’m also revamping a lot of the back-end infrastructure to make sure some stuff that wasn’t working before does now (including those of you who aren’t yet using RSS readers and have signed up for email notification of new post) and include some new functionality I’ve been wanting to include for—embarrassingly—years now.

In any event, if you run into any wonkiness in the near future that would be why!

I stumbled across this article and had to post it—because I think most of my family will think it is funny.

The Street: “Mac Owners Are Snobs”

For the record I got six, as long as I can count the station wagon(s) I drove growing up…

I’m going to level with you. I’m worried. A friend from work showed me this video of young Hannah at age two if we don’t sell our condo and have to end up renting it out…

Colin is now a full-fledged member of the Avatar-enabled community. Not that he’ll need this before it needs to be updated, but there is (suddenly) a requirement to have an Icon in this household…

Also, if you’re curious about how well the great folks over at Iconize Me did (we’ve talked about them before), you can see the original picture of Colin we uploaded for them to use here.

Of course the other big issue is how we’ll get a workable icon from the ultrasound pictures of Hannah (that presumably Deb will be posting shortly)…

1. Determining that, yes, indeed. Captain Crunch is still my favorite sugar cereal. Ever since I first had it over at the McHugh’s a thousand years ago. Eatin’ some now. Mmmmmmmm.

2. Figuring out how to spend the $100 Apple store credit I got for being an early adopter/purchaser of the iPhone 2 months before they reduced the price by $200.

(For those keeping score at home, yes, that means I’m still down $150 on the phone. $100 for the price difference and another $50 for paying the college kid to wait in line for it. On the plus side—and we weren’t sure this was going to be the case—I did get the rebate. We wondered if the college kid would get that, too, since he has the original receipt…)

Everyone seems to be all a-twitter about Apple’s new iPhone. Now I am not one for techno-lust (yeah, right), so I have a very well principled Top 2 listing of why I do not have an iPhone.

1. The AT&T Store on Washington Street in Hoboken didn’t have one.
2. The AT&T Store in Jersey City’s Newport Center mall didn’t have one either.

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UPDATE: Nevermind. I have one now.
UPDATE #2: Was taught how to spell by brother-in-law (see comments).

I am currently in the middle of what amounts to a fairly major overhaul of ellsworthlink.net and there is a lot of stuff just piling up, especially on the right-hand side of the blog page… Lots of reasons for the changes: a badly needed upgrade to the blogging software—WordPress—to which I was at least 3 or 4 “point” versions behind (1.5 vs the current 2.2), the need to move from a really crappy ISP to a much better one, as well as a desire to experiment more with Web 2.0 technologies.

In any case, it isn’t going to stay this way. There will hopefully be significantly more functionality once things settle down, but not so much more that you can’t find your way around.

You also probably noticed that you did not get an email alert about this post. That functionality also broke with the site migration from IMHosted to HostGator. I’ve still got a list of who was on the updates before and I will send you all a note about how to “re-up” your subscription. And if you were annoyed by the emails, this will be a good time to not bother renewing. Or, if you’re a bigger geek than me, you may be subscribed to the RSS feed and reading it from your newsreader. (I’ve only just subscribed to the RSS feed as a part of this whole migration/upgrade exercise.)