Imagine my surprise when I opened the following email message this morning:

You have been chosen to test the new email service at AnimeMusicVideos.org. You now have an email account of [address removed] to use if you wish.

Well, that’s very nice… but, what? I don’t need another email address! Sure, I’d love to have an excuse to use such an address, but I just don’t have such an excuse, and there’s no way I’m going to take the time to watch over yet another email account if there’s no need to do so.

This would barely be worth remarking upon, of course, but for the fact that I have a very, very, very hard time letting something like this pass me by. It’s going to take a fair bit of willpower to resist activating that account, just on general principles. Sad, isn’t it?

(For the story behind why I was offered my “very own” email account, see this forum thread.)

So, since I’m stuck with this navigation menu bar thing at the top of the page, I might as well update the contents of those pages, huh?

Consider it done. And yes, by “done” I mean “done just enough so I don’t cringe when I read my bio or the cast page.” For instance, my biography page no longer lists anything about my former place of employment. I suppose I could have kept a lot of the material about the good parts of that gig, but right now I can’t really begin to care about that organization, if you’ll pardon my use of the word. So be it.

Anyway. The pages listed above are mostly current, now… though I should probably update the webcomics page some time this week…

I flaked, oh yes indeed, on the real-life update thing. I won’t deny that. However, I did spend some quality time making the anti-spam system on my server work better… and then I documented the heck out of my changes in the wiki. (Yes, I have a wiki. It’s useful, especially given the number of times I’ve packed up and moved from server to server in the last year or so.)

Anyway, if you’re interested, read all about SpamAssassin on MySQL.

And if you’re not interested, stay tuned. Later I’ll tell you about my positively delightful train ride home last night…

Maybe I’m just getting lazy. Maybe a change is as good as a rest. Maybe, indeed, I’m hoping to attract people to my syndication feed with actual content. The reason may in fact be irrelevant, but the results aren’t: I’ve switched from a summary to a full-text syndication feed setting. This will make certain people happy, and will probably bewilder a few others.

It saves me the trouble of trying to come up with a clever and witty summary description for each post, though, and anything that makes writing in my journal easier is to be embraced without delay. This poor site has been neglected long enough as it is, wouldn’t you agree?

In other news, I’ve added links to my LiveJournal and my Vox page down there in the “My…” section on the left. Feel free to peruse them and amuse yourself with what I get up to when I’m not writing here for a change. If you’re on LJ at all, and are interested in instant messaging, you should definitely read this entry at the very least.

I think I’m starting to crawl, slowly, out of the emotional hole I’ve lived in for the last few months. Maybe this means I’ll start writing more, as this week’s output might suggest. One can hope, yes?