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Blogger Fort Weekend I

When you were little, did you built forts? I was a tomboy and spent most of the summer in our woods, building forts. In the wintertime, the media was either snow (upstate NY - land of mega snowforts) or textiles. Winter weekends when going outside wasn’t fun, my brother and I would make couch cushions into a little nest or else turn my bed into a tent by pinning a quilt to the wall. Then once inside, I’d read or play or just hang out, doing - as I’d say now - “important girl stuff”.

It’s in that spirit that I declare a Blogger Fort Weekend to go back and do blogging stuff while nested in my back room. I find that I’m accumulating post drafts far faster than is good, and have a lot to catch up on. I’m not going to process the new, just clear away the cobwebs of drafts, snippets, and even full posts that just never got published.

I haven’t blogged this week because I’ve been thoroughly enraptured with my new toy (Treo650) and caught up in evening distractions, including Valentine’s and various geek events. I’ve got stuff to post on that, including the ongoing saga of hacking Cingular’s Bluetooth Dial Up Networking (the holy grail of Treoville for me) and my various efforts to make (yes, make) Treo cases. It’s shameless fetishism, but I can’t seem to find what I want out in the wild. Currently, I have case projects underway in yarn, latex, and leather.

I also have some admin and general geekery to get out of the way. I need to upgrade to Wordpress 1.5 “Strayhorn”. Also waiting are a proper email filtering setup to handle mobile email productively, and back-tagging posts. More fun will be exploring ideas that Niall Kennedy, Brendon Wilson and I discussed on Wednesday night about calendars and event tracking. I’ll probably roll out a calendar blog for events while I’m noodling through the issue. Oh, and I have to finish importing my Outlook stuff to Moz’s calendar project, Sunfire, and get that up as iCal streams via WebDav.

I’ll update this post with links to the new stuff when I’m done. Mike has plague (thanks, Russ), so I’m gonna tent it out in the back room with some incense buring to propitiate the gods of health and vigor. Hopefully the powerful antibiotics (Augmentin, my favorites) I’m taking for my sinuses will let me glide on through…