Metaplanar Babel

An article from MSNBC reports:

Harry Potter’s imposing pal Hagrid — Scottish comedian and actor Robbie Coltrane — was made a member of the Order of the British Empire.

All hail the noble half-giant knight!

I’m currently contemplating a suicidal attempt to upgrade my Wordpress install to the newly released version 2.0. No, this isn’t some bizarre desire to have 2.0 in my blogname. Actually, I’m not entirely sure why I should do this just yet - hence the contemplation. Part of me just wants to play with the shiny, but that’s a pretty sad reason to attempt an upgrade as fraught with problems as this one sounds like it will be. Anyway, if Babel disappears off the face of the earth temporarily, fear not, for I have backups and I’m not afraid to use them! v(^o^)

Another new year. Babel is coming up on its first birthday in February March, but since we’re still pretty much in the same place we were when we started, it’s not much of a landmark. But that’s okay. Babel remains pretty much a place for me to explore with and vent through, so I am happy with where we are.

I’m continuing to work on the technical knowledge that I’ve been learning throughout the year (jump-started, I might add, by the act of creating this blog) - thanks to my family for the phat lewtz (two links there ) that will hopefully grant me massive bonuses to my Ruby and CSS skills (Book of Ruby+5, anyone?). I have a project that I’m half working on that will eventually utilize both; it’s Earthdawn related, and I have high hopes for it (mostly that I can find the motivation to get off (on?) my butt and work on it).

Along with the technical bounty, Santa brought me a nice lot of new clothes, more movies than we know what to do with, and a few other nifty miscellania. Jon and I have started watching Firefly again, thanks to another viewing of Serenity. We found the special features on the Serenity DVD to be amusing, especially Joss’s introductory commentary (that I guess was aired before the pre-release showings?) including his reference to “the most cancelled show” ever. Speaking of Serenity, this book is incredibly awesome. Not only does it contain the film script in its entirety, with pictures (shiny!), it also contains a few chapters in the beginning with an interview of Joss Whedon about the making of the movie and the tv series.

Anyway, ramblings aside, I’m hoping 2006 will be a good year (aren’t we all?). I have hopes that increasing my technical skills (mostly with Ruby/Rails and CSS) might lead me to a new job/career, I’m pleased that I’ve managed to stick with the blogging thing for nearly a year, and maybe somewhere along the way I’ll find time to clean up around the house and/or organize my overlarge book collection (that hasn’t yet made it to Listal). Oh, and finish Jade Empire, which I finally own and am playing through. Plus, our dear friend Kleos and his fiancee may be running an Earthdawn game that Jon and I might be playing in. Hooray! Ahem, I did say “rambling aside”, did I not? Here’s to a shiny new year~