As I prepare for a couple of presumably-deserved days off, here’s the sort of stuff that I’m running across today:

• Videoblogging, or “vlogging,” is… taking off? Maybe, maybe not, but it is at least of mild geeky appeal. Perhaps.
• For your amusement, if you’re a sysadmin that is, we offer up this list of things you do not want to hear from your server admin.
• They’ve gone and made me the “owner” of the Portland Bloggers group over at Yahoo. Be afraid, be very… well, okay, maybe not afraid. Amused, perhaps.
• I have the Program Director of 94/7fm to thank for giving me the chance to listen to Paul Anka covering Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun.” (In the previous sentence, by “thank” I mean “punish,” and by “listen to” I mean “suffer.” Just for clarification, you understand.) The guy’s putting out an album of modern rock and pop tracks done in a big-band swing kind of style. No, I am not making this up. (I admit that I’d almost pay good money to hear his take on “It’s A Sin,” though.) Scary, truly scary.
• I’m taking tomorrow and Monday off from work, ‘cause a particular wonderful lady is coming down for the weekend on account of a particular special occasion. Yay!

And this is only Thursday the 12th. Can you imagine what Friday the 13th will bring? Can you? Wowza.