I’ll start by explaining my absence. I’ve been very active on Facebook which is the reason for zero blog posts. Facebook is nice in that I can quickly throw a message there and those on my friends list can comment, and while for a bit I was using Twitter to post updates I started avoiding it as it’s set for open viewing rather than friends only like Facebook. And given I was updating Facebook all the time, I left the blog sitting here.
So what now? Well, I need to blog more. I know several people are following me here that aren’t on Facebook (sorry parents, you can’t be my Facebook friend) and I need to get things back on track here. Next, I need to use Twitter more. As part of that, I included my Twitter feed along the sidebar to the right, meaning you can quickly see what I’m up to in between blog posts.
I also updated the blog software and this busted some plug-ins, meaning you might notice a few things here or there that don’t quite work like they did before. If you run into these, please throw a comment in for this post just in case I missed it. I’ll admit, though, that the older the posts are, the higher chance they’re busted. I did work on the Magnum XL-200 video posted in the CoasterMania 2008 blog post, but that might be troublesome for some. Maybe I’ll upload it to YouTube, but I don’t like the idea of my videos being part of a giant pool of videos that just anyone can do whatever with, but, maybe I’m too paranoid and need to take off the tin foil hat.
And the site is no longer valid XHTML (the little W3C image in the sidebar). Translation: the site might not render correctly sometimes. When I get a chance, I’ll dig around and see what needs changing like I did last time I made some major changes. Until then, there might be an oddity here or there, but, I think it’ll be very minimal from the errors I saw called out.
3am – I’m headed for bed. Catch ya later. 
