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I won’t be posting here for awhile. Hopefully only a few weeks. I have a pet programming project I have been failing to wrap up because I am always distracted by the nearest shiny thing. So I am banned from the iPad and all things Netflix, I’m turning off my access to Facebook and my newsreader, and I’m blocking Flash (curse you, YouTube!). Will not return to any of these things until it’s done. Gulp.

Sorry again for cluttering the feeds. I have been finding I’ve been doing most of my extracurricular reading these days using Instapaper on my iPod Touch, and I wanted a way to automatically post the pieces I enjoy here. Not sure if this was the best way to go about it, but since Instapaper supports Pinboard integration, I signed up for an account there, and can now suck my Pinboard RSS feed right into my weblog.

(I know I could have pulled in the Instapaper “liked” feed, but the app doesn’t allow me to monkey with titles and excerpts before posting the way it does when posting to Pinboard.)

Been messing with the site feeds, sorry for littering your newsreaders with duplicate posts, posts without content, etc. I’m trying to set it up such that when you click through to a post on your newsreader, you are brought directly to the content I’m referencing rather than my site.

Here’s a nifty technique I’m trying: flagging visited links with a checkmark. Neat trick, but perhaps too gimmicky? I’ll see how it sits. Comments open.

Sorry, quick administrative note… drop me an e-mail if you want to buy my leanandhungryfitness.com domain.

I try to keep it pretty selective, but if I don’t post often enough for you I have revived my delicious account, where I’ll be posting these links, plus spillover links. Still good stuff, just maybe a bit less good. Or maybe just less good to me, but even better for you. There will certainly be more to choose from.

Just a short administrative note: you can follow my weblog on Twitter, if you prefer. This has been true for awhile but it just occurred to me that I never actually told anybody.

Web sites are never done, but I think I’m ready to declare this the first major “done” moment. All the content from the old sites are moved over, I think I have a handle on Textpattern, and although I’m still no designer, I like the look of the place. I still have to tag all the old content, but that’ll take awhile to chip away at. Anyway, if you only follow my stuff via RSS, have a look.

As I mentioned earlier, I'm giving up one of my sites, and as my other sites are built on top of that site's architecture, I need to move them. I've migrated all the content to the Textpattern CMS. The biancolo.com domain is sticking around, while the leanandhungryfitness.com domain will be folded, with all that content now under biancolo.com, although as a distinct category, so if you want just the fitness stuff without the rest you can continue to do that. The new site is VERY rough around the edges (I'm running TXP with pretty much default everything, including the skin), and I expect to gradually improve it over the coming months. I wanted to get back to posting though, so didn't want to wait until it was done. Please forgive the work in progress!

The RSS feeds are already pointed over, so hopefully that transition should be seamless (although you might get the current batch of articles in your readers again).

Anyway, my personal site is still at biancolo.com and now includes all the fitness stuff, plus anything else that I find interesting. Here's the fitness-only category. Again, RSS feeds are available for both.

Thanks in advance for your patience, I'm sure I have plenty of bumps and warts to smooth out.

Sorry about the dearth of posts, I'm in a bit of a transition period...

First, a link: Mackey has a great post on squatting up. Go. Read. Watch THE CLIP.

Second, to the Nationals-bound Ultimate players out there, good luck in Sarasota! Wish I could be there, but now I get to join in the trick-or-treat fun. As my daughter told me going into Regionals, "it's a win-win!" And right she was.

Finally, do me a favor? Drop me a line if you find this site useful. You can post here or e-mail me. I'm handing over my oldest, dearest site to a fellow ready to give it a long overdue update, and this site piggybacks on it's framework, so will have to change one way or another. Anyway, I've always been curious about who my readers actually are, so if you're willing (no pressure, of course), just a quick ping: your sport, your team (if applicable), and what you've picked up from here. Thanks!

The subhead of this site used to read "'Lanky and Peckish' is probably closer to the truth." Then I had this from a teammate, which made me laugh:

My two cents, by the way, is that neither of those words is really all that good, but I respect the thesaurus work and the self-effacement behind them. The idea that *you* are "lanky," is, really, a serious insult to people like XXX and me, who are pretty much left with only "scrawny" if you have staked out that territory. Peckish implies, to me anyway, a shortness of temper and brittleness that just aren't even remotely there.

How I got the British usage of "peckish" ("slightly hungry") in my head rather than the American ("ill-tempered") is a bit of a mystery. My theory was too much Tolkien as a youth, but now I'm guessing it's too much Wallace and Gromit as an adult.

So I changed it.

Awhile ago, I used Radio UserLand for weblogging. In migrating to my own solution, I parsed out the backup files and loaded them to this system. The bulk of the content was my family weblog, which is a journal of my kids. Very important stuff. Today somebody told a story that reminded me of an episode from my past, so I went looking for the post. Nowhere to be found on the new system. Turns out, for whatever reason, the Radio backup files were incomplete. So I've used Steve Hooker's third-party tool to dump my Radio contents to one big RSS file, and I'm now in the process of figuring out what wasn't included. Not fun. Not that there are many Radio users out there (and even fewer among my meager readership), but consider yourselves warned.