A visit from a friend I hadn’t seen in too many years, overabundant food at Libby Hill, obnoxious heat and humidity, mysqldump, The Young Ones, missing my boy, and a (finally completed) bout with insomnia have defined my week. Yours?

Note, please, that the last sentence was more or less a rhetorical request for information.

Happy birthday, Dan. Update your damned website…

This, via here, is making me all warm and squishy tonight and keeping me up later than I might have preferred. On early assessment, I am not surprised to see that we have a relatively obscure collection of books here at Murdering Stream Estates. I am very pleased to see that, at this stage in the import, the three most “popular” titles I own are all “Bloom County” collections. Somehow, that makes me feel a lot better about humanity in general.

There are still lots of tags to enter. And alas, Mark and I between us have over 150 titles without ISBNs, all of which will have to be entered manually rather than imported from our own book database.

Why, yes. Of course we have our own book database. Don’t you?

It’s nice knowing just enough Unix command-line stuff that you’re not afraid to try something that will make your life easier, but also knowing little enough that you probably won’t try something that’s likely to take the whole server down with you.

MTV turns 25 on Tuesday. What’s really interesting is that MTV itself can’t be bothered to mark the anniversary at all; that particular celebration will be held on sister station VH1 Classic, which will apparently be playing every video featured on MTV’s first day of programming.

Should be interesting. It’s too bad not many people will see it.