Tag Archives: 'site'

• Disclaimer

  I wrote this for a project several years ago, but I think it works well for this blog… All writing is intentional and correct, so please refrain from keeping a log of mistakes.

• The Blue Period

  You may ask, is he really comparing himself to the famed 20th century painter? Yes, I am. First of all — like me — Pablo Picasso is overrated. We should admit that. And you do not need to go to Barcelona to see why. Second, why not? Politics is my art, and the blog is [...]

• Five Years

  Talk about limping to the finish line. All I have is excuses these days. Maybe politics is in my future. That, or I should drink more often. I feel I blog better drunk, but that is probably just me. Today marks the end of the fifth year of this blog. And what do I have [...]

• Slow Lane

  Life in the fast lane. (Or the slow lane; one of the two anyhow.) If you can’t stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen. These sayings may reflect my unfortunate inability to post this week. If I get this post published within the next seven minutes of typing t-h-i-s, I will have blogged [...]

• Goodbye Blogger

  Well, this was abrupt, even for me. This past week, as I have been catching up with a lot of the side-projects I have found myself involved in, I had made the determination that I would convert this blog from Blogger to Movable Type in July. Why July? This July will mark the fifth full [...]

• WordPress

  I have moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress. Let’s see what happens.

• Morning Exercise

  As of Tuesday, with my review of the third installment of Shrek (so far), I am finally caught up with my Film Retrospective series. Therefore, I do not have a standard early-morning post. It is interesting how one comes to rely on what would seem to be a trivial activity, but that first post has [...]

• Research Intern

  I am looking to field a research intern for the considerable future. The research will be primarily online, and will be used for posts published on this site as well as another blog of mine. The position is a function of availability, meaning whenever you find the time to research, you do. There will most [...]

• Hybrid

  In my two-thousand first post, I blogged that I have been moving towards Movable Type in a lot of my projects. These are truths. However, none of my projects are as important to me as this one, and I have an existing framework that has been constructed by Blogger, that is at-times frustrating, but is [...]

• And One

  This is my two-thousand first post to the blog, which means my last post was number two thousand (this is why they pay me). I am not surprised by this blog’s longevity, as I believe I have staying power, but I do sincerely wish that the majority of those twenty-hundred posts weren’t trash, and I [...]

• 13 Million People Read This Blog

  Now that I think about it, maybe 13 million people are reading this blog. Everyday. And since I have installed several scaling mechanisms on the back-end, I am confident this site can handle such traffic. So why not? Why not 13 million? This calls for a new slogan… reyonthehill, read by 13 million people, everyday. [...]

• A Blogger Manifesto

  I like to blog because I like to write. If I were able to blog and make a living, in all likelihood I would choose to blog, because I love to write. Alas, that is not how it works, at least right now. The point being, I blog because I write. I do not blog [...]

• FAQ: Site Design

  I guess this is version 5.0 of reyonthehill. I guess. Let me explain… – The initial design was really 0.1/beta stuff, utilizing old site designs and fiddling with Blogger templates. – 1.0 was reycorp blog (the original name of this blog), which lasted well over a year or so, but the writing style and content [...]

• 1461

  Today marks the 1461st day of blogging. When I started, the Iraq war had been recently declared “mission accomplished” by the president. And now, the Iraq war still continues. Maybe the new slogan for the blog should be, “reyonthehill, blogging until the Iraq war is over.” (And maybe I’ll have this side job for a [...]

• The New Deal

  Alright, I have been stymied once again by the man. As of last Thursday, I am no longer able to blog as I normally would (first hour or so in the morning, again around lunch, maybe once more later in the day, and tidying up along the way, as necessary). And on Friday, Monday, Tuesday, [...]

• Good Morning

  The sun is up, the sky is blue. It is beautiful, and … Enough John Lennon. The reason I am so chipper is that yesterday, I had lost all access to blogger, and was forced to email my posts, which limits my ability to link, post images, add labels, edit posts, etc. It was a [...]

• A Week Off

  I am on holiday all this week — jealous??? — and I am in the middle of changing servers for the website (which is not the least bit fun but, at the same time, so very rewarding). reyonthehill is now finally situated at www.reyonthehill.com, and I hope you haven’t noticed, because that would mean I [...]

• New Name

  From now on (maybe I could have used the term “henceforth” here, I’ve always wanted to; too late), I will go simply by JayDog. If you would please refer to me as “JayDog” in all of your correspondence, it will be greatly appreciated. I feel this change, albeit sudden, reflects my current mood, which I [...]

• A New Chapter Unfolds (Let Me Blog It)

  Call it blogging karma; call it the big blogging sham. I’ve always thought of joining or starting an online book club (alright, “always” may not be the correct term; let’s go with “momentarily, here and there”), and what better way to commence then with the start of a new book, Kurt Vonnegut’s Bagombo Snuff Box. [...]