http://www.itzoe.net/blog/ The latest posts and news from Itzoe.net en-us Copyright 2026 Itzoe.net, all rights reserved. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:27:39 -0500 http://www.itzoe.net/images/rss/blog.png http://www.itzoe.net/blog/ http://www.itzoe.net/blog/just-sit-right-back-and-youll-hear-a-tale http://www.itzoe.net/blog/just-sit-right-back-and-youll-hear-a-tale Identitie ...a tale of a fateful trip. Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:56:00 -0500 http://www.itzoe.net/blog/land-sakes-alive-this-sites-not-dead-after-all http://www.itzoe.net/blog/land-sakes-alive-this-sites-not-dead-after-all Uncategorized Wow! Has it really been four-and-a-half years since I posted here? Great googly-moogly, it has. Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:58:47 -0600 http://www.itzoe.net/blog/lets-do-a-different-time-warp-again http://www.itzoe.net/blog/lets-do-a-different-time-warp-again Uncategorized seven years ago, our previous web host went tits up one weekend when they decided it was a good idea to physically move the server. Oh, and they decided to shut it down first, instead of, I dunno, virtualizing it, or migrating to a backup, or any other number of things a half-competent server admin would do. (And let's face it, I'm not even a server admin, let alone a compentent one, and even I know better.) When it was back up and running, settings changed on their end that prevented the site from working properly. After a couple months of this, we switched hosts.]]> Tue, 02 Aug 2016 21:08:00 -0500 http://www.itzoe.net/blog/my-memorial-day-weekend-diy-project http://www.itzoe.net/blog/my-memorial-day-weekend-diy-project Journie My father was, as they say, quite the handyman. He knew tools, he knew construction, he knew how things go together. While I didn't exactly inherit all of his jack-of-all-trades genes, I got enough to be able to occasionally do something, well, handy. Case in point, I needed a clock for my bathroom. Tue, 26 May 2015 09:18:00 -0500 http://www.itzoe.net/blog/take-me-out-to-the-wait-was-there-a-ballgame-going-on http://www.itzoe.net/blog/take-me-out-to-the-wait-was-there-a-ballgame-going-on Journie Biggest Loser-type competition. As fate would have it, I was on the second-place team. As further fate would have it, my team shrunk from four to two members (no, not from weight loss, silly) so it was up to me and my coworker how to best spend our winnings. We discussed a few options, like sushi or mani-pedis, but nothing materialized. Finally someone on the winning team (I guess, I never asked) decided our two teams would pool our winnings and have an outing. So we went to see the St. Louis Cardinals play in not-so-historic Busch Stadium.]]> Thu, 07 May 2015 16:13:00 -0500 http://www.itzoe.net/blog/my-wife-treed-a-squirrel-sort-of http://www.itzoe.net/blog/my-wife-treed-a-squirrel-sort-of Journie Up, then you probably remember the running squirrel! gag. Somehow, this became a thing with our dogs. Any utterance of "squirrel" causes them to, well, freak out. (It also works with "girl" and "curl", by the way.)]]> Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:59:00 -0500 http://www.itzoe.net/blog/whither-star-wars http://www.itzoe.net/blog/whither-star-wars Metamorpheus Disney bought LucasFilm for $4 billion. I'll start by saying that like a lot of people, Star Wars is near and dear to my heart. But I have mixed emotions over this one.]]> Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:08:00 -0500 http://www.itzoe.net/blog/is-neil-innes-a-witch http://www.itzoe.net/blog/is-neil-innes-a-witch Metamorpheus Rutles for years, both the mockumentary and the music. I'd be hard-pressed to choose a favorite between the original soundtrack and 1996's Archeology (which, IMHO, is probably the most underrated and overlooked album of the 90s).]]> Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:07:00 -0500 http://www.itzoe.net/blog/better-than-coffee http://www.itzoe.net/blog/better-than-coffee Journie We have a sort-of family ritual, whereby every Sunday morning I get up and make breakfast. Mind you, this is the only day of the week I make breakfast, so it's something that's actually planned and whatnot. The thing about Sunday morning, though, is I don't have coffee. Wed, 29 Aug 2012 20:21:00 -0500 http://www.itzoe.net/blog/odd-the-news-thats-fit-to-print http://www.itzoe.net/blog/odd-the-news-thats-fit-to-print Metamorpheus The Good News, a collection of news stories that avoided the "doom and gloom" the media likes to hawk so much. I tended to update daily depending on the stories I found, but while I enjoyed it, it was time-consuming and, ultimately, sporadic. (Much like this blog, huh?)]]> Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:16:00 -0500