As you can see, I’m in the process of updating the site. Why?

  • To make it natively more phone/tablet friendly.
  • To have a flexible design that would accommodate the variety of posts I want to make (esp. tweet-length and links).
  • To let more recent posts shine on the front page instead of being crowded out by categories that aren’t posted to as often.
  • To update the under-the-hood code to better reflect current practices.
  • And it just felt like it was time to try something different.

I beg your indulgence as the site is tweaked over the coming days as bugs, mind-changes, and legacy formatting rear their time-consuming heads.

Yeah, it’s new, but I think you’ll come to like it.

Ad Issues

I’ve been having issues with my ad-serving plugin after a version update. I’m trying to resolve this. Except for some formatting/aesthetic issues, this shouldn’t affect visitors to the site. Sorry for any inconvenience while I get this resolved. UPDATE: Well…I … Continue reading 

TIB Has Moved – The Migration Experience to WordPress 3.0

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For good or for ill, I’ve moved TIB over to Wordpress 3.0. What does this mean? For you guys, it pretty much just means that instead of typing “http://cjcs.com/tib” you’ll be typing “http://tib.cjcs.com”. Hopefully that will be the only significant inconvenience you’ll have. Continue reading 

June 28, 2009 Outage

My apologies for this site being unavailable for at least 10 hours on June 28, 2009. A critical file on the T I B site which should never get mangled somehow got mangled. It happened at the worst possible time: right after I’d stopped personally monitoring the site for the day (hey, even I have to sleep at some point). Continue reading