Madison, WI

We only have a brief stopover in Madison, Wisconsin, with Mary's brother and sister-in-law. Which is too bad because the last time we were here I thought it was a pretty cool city. Tomorrow we've got a 7-hour drive north to Lake Superior (oy). It's only 300 miles or so, but we won't see a freeway–it's backroads the whole way up. The few flakes we saw in St. Louis that constituted a white Christmas have been shown up by the snow up here in Wisconsin. The temperatures have dropped (in the teens throughout Illinois) and the snow banks are much Read more…

Yeah, I think I’m hooked

Blogger’s integration with Google will be hard to pass up. But if I’m using Gmail anyway, then isn’t that the same level of integration? Posterous is starting to seem like a good replacement, though.  It’s the first the that I’ve really considered changing services. Mainly because it doesn’t feel like I’m just weighing WordPress vs. Blogger vs. Textpattern. But because it feels like it’s actually something new. And I’m intrigued by that.  Anyway, I’m heading to Minnesota and Wisconsin for a week over the 4th.  Computer connectivity will be limited. But since Posterous seems so well made to work with Read more…