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This is a test, and only a test of the not-exactly-an-emergency blogcasting system. I would like to thank Dana Watson for encouraging me to use these tools to publish my thoughts. She was correct: they do provide an excellent vehicle from which to publish one's late-night rantings and ravings which greatly exceeds my old HTML version in facility and power. I would also like to thank Jeremy Tolbert for installing the basic Movable Type blog files, and for providing a few technical pointers to head me off in the right direction. I believe that most of the older archives have repopulated the history of this place, and I hope that many more words will follow hence.