http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com let the writer beware... Sat, 10 May 2008 03:39:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it's been interesting. I've had fun with this blog, really I have. But it never really took off like I'd hoped, never really got me posting the way I wanted to, and in turn, didn't get others reading the way I'd hoped. So it's time to move on. My new ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/moving-on/ I decided to glance at the wordpress.com home page when a "featured post" caught my eye. The post was titled "#82: Hating Corporations," and it was the latest article from a blog called Stuff White People Like. The post was a satirical look at the No Logo / Adbusters segment ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/blog-review-stuff-white-people-like/ As I draft this entry, I'm sitting in the ER at University of Maryland hospital. I'm here because my chipped tooth became infected, and now the right side of my face is all swollen up. It's not pretty. It's also intensely painful, and I'm going to have to have two teeth removed. ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/ouch-my-face/ From wbaltv.com (Channel 11 News): BALTIMORE -- Baltimore City police said two people were killed and 11 people were injured in a series of shootings and stabbings throughout Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning.Police said the violence started late Tuesday afternoon with a double shooting on East Fayette Street. They ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/two-dead-11-injured-in-multiple-shootings-stabbings/ I'm not someone who wins contests. Games, sure. I can whoop some ass at Trivial Pursuit, make some extra beer money at low-stakes poker, and I even have my good days at a pool table (provided the other folks at the table also suck at pool). But contests... I'm never ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/42/ Yesterday afternoon, I happened to find myself in a car with the radio tuned to WYPR just in time for the hourly NPR news broadcast. Falwell Dies at 73 by David Molpus ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2007/05/16/de-mortuis-nihil-nisi-verum/ Well, yesterday I promised a look at (interim) mayor Sheila Dixon's long-awaited crime-fighting plan, which was unveiled to the public last week. For starters, you can read the article from the Baltimore Sun. Since the Sun takes articles down two weeks after they're published, I've also reprinted the article locally. The announcement ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/dixon-outlines-city-crime-fighting-plan/ I'm anxiously watching and waiting to see what kind of mayor Sheila Dixon, our fair city's unelected executive, will decide she wants to be. As the city's chief executive, the mayor is ultimately responsible for local law enforcement, and his or her approach to crime fighting has a major impact ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2007/05/06/baltimore-mayor-wont-take-a-stance-on-decriminalizing-drugs/ So if you've checked back for new posts lately (that is, if anyone out there actually reads this), you may have noticed some significant changes to the look of this blog. Wordpress has been adding more and more themes, and although I was pretty proud of the ridiculously simple custom ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/new-look-same-great-taste/ So I guess I should talk about my recent occupational choices, given the enraptured tone of my naively unwary posts about my "awesome dream internship." Yeah, right. To be fair, the job itself was awesome. I was doing tech support for an all-Mac (on the desktop) publishing shop, and also ... http://caveatscriptor.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/32/