Blog posts

1. My Great-Grandfather's Record

   Thomas Oriani was a police Washington DC Patrolman from August 1, 1888 through June 30, 1931. A photocopy of a photocopy of his policy record is in the family history I’m documenting, and it is…

2. Migrating this site

   Textpattern is pretty rad and Wordpress seems to be large target for malware, so I have abandonded ship. That means I’ll lose some of the music sidebar trickery, so I logged into the last.fm account…

3. Eschatology

   A bumper sticker seen in traffic: WARNING : In case of RAPTURE this car will be unmanned! Me: Ha. In-case-of-rapture-this-car-will-be-unmanned. Nice. Her: What? Me: The bumper sticker on that car.…

4. Family trees

   A family history of the Italian side of my Mom’s family was assembled in the 1970’s. Aunts and Great Aunts of mine got copies of it at some time between now and then and fleshed out their…

5. New Server

   Aaron put me in charge of setting up the new server that will replace the server on which this site and about 20 other domains w/ mail and websites, databases, and so on are hosted. We are using…