Bento Art

Power lunching in Japan: The one shown above is for Moneka, who loves PPG! There are another 1/2 dozen or so of these imaginative creations available for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to memepool … Read more

Wyrex Unearthed

Wyrex, a 65-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, is being excavated in an undisclosed location in Montana. Unique to this dig is the fact that the entire process is being documented via the web. The dig’s … Read more

Back on the Air

Just a quick note to mention that mike-sheryl.com is back on the air after a brief outage. Unfortunately, dotster never replied to any of my customer support queries so I don’t know if … Read more

Sunset on the beach

Six Apart Addresses Customer Concerns

Reacting quickly to vociferous feedback from a very engaged customer base, Six Apart today offered clarifications to their previously announced licensing terms. From what I can tell, the major issues have been addressed, … Read more

Double Edge Shaving Kit

From One DB to Another

I find it very interesting how an export file from a mysql database, as created by phpmyadmin, is a self-contained, self-expanding unit. It’s not just a file containing the text of your blog … Read more

Due to Clerical Error

Actually, because I simply forgot, the domain registration for mike-sheryl.com lapsed today about 4:30PM, PDT. This means any emails sent to anyone at mike-sheryl.com are currently (11:30pm) bouncing. Since I recently moved this … Read more

MT3: First Take

A new version of MovableType was released today. To say the announcement, which included a surprising twist with respect to licensing, was controversial would be quite the understatement. Suffice to say, a lot … Read more