Todd Stadler's blog

a message from the mgmt.

I feel compelled to note that the relative paucity of recent postings is not completely unwarranted.

Indeed, I have been working on, or at the very least thinking about, adding an entire second column of content to Cock-a-hoop. Double your pleasure, for a zero-fold increase in what you're paying to experience it.

Or, really, a two- or thirteen-fold increase. Zeros are funny that way. Except the Japanese ones. Never mind.

Point being, I noticed a reluctance on my part to post short, quippy, link-y postings to the web page as it is. I didn't want to be a blog, I guess. Sounds too much like "blob".

But such self-imposed limitations prevented me from noting the short, quippy things I thought of, either forcing me to beef them up to article length or forgetting them after a few days.

Friends, if I have learned one thing about the Internet, it's that humanity need never again forget anything, provided that we have tape backups. What sort of naive, self-indulgent thoughts was I having on September 10, 2001? Now we all know.

As such, I'm working on shorter, quippier content for this new column, and more importantly, the technology that will bring you my smallest, most mundane thoughts made while I was within typing distance of a computer.

For, you see, as with most things Cock-a-hoopian, this new column will be an exercise in applying newly-gained knowledge, specifically MySQL. No more shoddy flat files for you! No, now content much like what you're already used to will come from a database. Which, in my opinion, makes it already way more interesting. I hope you will be similarly generous in your praise.

Of course, all of this means that I will now have to ask myself whether the thing I'm writing for Cock-a-hoop is small or large, quippy or ranty. So bear with me as I work it all out.

Or, if you have no idea what I'm talking about (and yet you find this different than what you usually find in this space), then just wait a few days, or weeks, and it'll all be clearer. Maybe.

Huzzah! Long live the blog!