The latest firestorm to hit the so-called “blogosphere” is the Movable Type 3.0 licensing debacle. I have the good fortune to enjoy considerable distance from the fray: The only MT site I run is the anime site. (By the way, has anybody come up with a better name for that thing? Anyone?) Sure, it has two authors, but unless some major security fix comes down the wire that necessitates an upgrade, I can leave it right where it is. The only two other MT-based sites I’m involved with (by way of hosting) are single-author, single-blog rigs, thus falling under the “personal use” heading. And that’s even if they wanted to upgrade to 3.0, which isn’t exactly what you’d call a certainty.

Have I pointed out that the Monaural Jerk v0.5 alpha releases have been an absolute joy to work with? Heh. (Oh, I should also mention that the roomie swears by WordPress and its “five minutes from tarball to working site” slickness.)

Recently I heard the somewhat sad, somewhat frustrating story of juvenile misconduct during a convention. This is not that story. This is part of the commentary after the story.

Several levels of crisis were described in acronym form, being from least to worst:

SNAFU – Situation Normal, All F***ed Up

Sure, everyone’s heard of that one.

TARFU – Things Are Really F***ed Up

New to me, but okay…

FUBAR – F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition (or, alternately, Repair)

A ubiquitous piece of work, that. And then the one that really got me laughing…

BOHICA – Bend Over, Here It Comes Again

Hah! It’s so much fun to say! I can so see that entering the common lexicon in my particular circle of friends…