Annotating the blog

There's a new link over on the right, titled Back Story. It's the result of my recent musings about ways to support non-linear content within a chronological weblog format. The Back Story section also follows the "fail faster" rule: get something out there for people to pound on instead of trying to perfect the first release. In other words, the section is highly experimental and subject to change without notice. Comments welcome.

There's a new sheriff in town

In case you had any doubt that elections matter...

• Chance that a Republican Congress would set an Iraq withdrawal date: zero.


• Chance that a Republican Congress would investigate political firings of US Attorneys: zero.


• Chance that a Republican Congress would investigate FBI abuse of National Security Letters: zero.


• Chance that a Republican Congress would investigate the pressuring of government scientists to downplay global warming: zero.

Whether you agree with these actions or not, it's pretty clear that the November election changed the relationship between the White House and the Congress pretty dramatically.

6000 words

6000 words since my last count. That gives me 12,800 for the month so far, and 44,800 for the year. Not much of March left, so I'll have to work to match last month's number. Amazing how hard it is to write and look at real estate listings at the same time.

Please pardon our dust

Yes, we've moved. Things are likely to be in flux for a little while as we update templates and such. For now, you can get to the home page at http://www.thinfilmmfg.com, and to the pre-move blog archives at http://www.thinfilmmfg.com/mtblog/archives.html.

this is another test

test posting to Katherine's new blog from Tinderbox.

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testing Katherine's new blog