One vote against the Sugasm thing -- it's incredibly frustrating going round the blogs and finding a bunch of identical posts consisting of, well, a bunch of links. No matter how high the linked signal might get, I register the Sugasm itself as noise. It puts me off of reading sex blogs on Fridays, and makes catching up on several at a time frustrating. If the participants had some sort of dynamically updated sidebar button or such, which pointed to a central list, it'd be another matter entirely. Or if each participant chose five or six links off of the list and wrote down quick impressions about them.

You might as well keep with TypePad at this point (just take regular backups in case you change your mind). It seems to do well by you, it takes stress out of your life, and there's certainly some latitude for indulging the tinker-urge in the appropriate tier. Your work seems the better for having made the interim transition. Whatever makes your life easier.

You might as well keep with TypePad at this point (just take regular backups in case you change your mind). It seems to do well by you, it takes stress out of your life, and there's certainly some latitude for indulging the tinker-urge in the appropriate tier. Your work seems the better for having made the interim transition. Whatever makes your life easier.

MySpace scares me. Friendster got a spamtrap address right off the bat, and didn't make a lot of sense to me. I grasp the trust network as it applies to Livejournal -- these people see these posts; these people turn up in this aggregate view to make it easier for me to track things. Beyond that point, something in my head collapses and dies.

It's official. 85% of Random Online Poly Communities are made up of those characters' sockpuppets. Nearly died. The scheduler just made it.

4chan. Aiya. Yeah, another vote for Wicked Good Photoshop here. (My first thought was that a Something Awful goon might have been responsible.)

The thing to do here is to hit up ilounge.com and look at their various reviews, I think. (Warning: dangerous consumerist time sink.) Some people get along really well with the iTrip and such, but it just doesn't work for everyone. If you don't have a line-out cable in your car, I think the next step is one of the various car docking systems. Don't know if that's much better or worse than the tape deck; certainly pricier. (I don't drive, so I have to take people's words for it.) Harmon Kardon were doing a weird little doohickey which lets you keep your iPod in your glove compartment and stick a control set onto your dashboard, mounted not unlike PDAs with GPSes in 'em, but they didn't quite get the replica controls right.

Karen: Yep! Pricey little gadget, too. http://www.consideratelover.com/detail.jsp?find=VHVT-350&-skipRows=0&src=froogle (I could have sworn I saw it first on one the usual suspects' sites, but Babeland, Blowfish, and GV have no sign of it! o_O)