Episode 87 of Pressed & Bound is online! That tree back there is so fake. In this week’s episode we discuss:

Books:

• The Graveyard Book

Movies:

• A Simple Plan

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Today I got myself a fancy new Barnes & Noble Nook. The long and short of it is that it’s pretty fun to use and the screen looks great. I don’t have much time right now to discuss a whole lot about it, but I made a fun unboxing video:

I hope to have some more in depth thoughts about it soon, once I’ve had a chance to play with it more. Enjoy!

This is a very short message, but I am just testing to make sure that all is well with the hosting transfer and for all intents and purposes I think it might be. Please let us know if anything is not working for you like it should or if you see something that’s been there forever that looks wonky.

The other benefit besides me saving money is that I was able to use put all of the posts and such into a new database; a new database that supports php 5.0, that is. WordPress is moving to that being more or less the standard with all of their new revisions and I’m glad that I can finally update the guts of the site to these new version now. Before, I was stuck with an older, less secure release because the database on the old hosting account was using php 4.whatever and there really was no “easy” way to transfer it all. Which is not to say that simply making a new database, putting all the old files into it, and then relinking it is difficult, per se, but it’s a pain in the ass and I really didn’t want to do unless I had to. And I had to when moving to this new hosting plan.

That’s all for now. I should probably get to editing the last episode of the show soon…

Well, not really, but kinda.

I just wanted to inform everyone that in the next couple of days you might see some outages here on the site as it gets moved from one hosting plan to another. In the end it should all look the same and everyone should be happy (the URL will be the same), but there might be some downtime in the middle, and for that all I can say is that it might be a good time to go read a nice book. I don’t know where you could find any suggestions on good books, though, but I’ll keep my eyes peeled…

Today’s CLWED comes to us all the way from the internet. Stetler Goodhart (bedsits@bikecap.nl) brings us an excerpt from chapter 11 of Samuel Hopkins Adams’s Average Jones:

Tisement in the other. The adventurer-bug flourished a farewell to the girl with his antennae, and retired within to advise his fellows of the charms of freedom. “Very well,” said the girl, in demure tones, though lambent mirth still flickered, golden, in the depths of the brown eyes.
“If you persist, I can only suggest that you come back when Judge Ackroyd is here. You won’t find him particularly amenable to humor, particularly when perpetrated by a practical joker in masquerade.”
“Discovered,” murmured Average Jones. “I shouldn’t have vaunted my poor French. But must I really take my little friends all the way back? You suggested to the mystic voice within that I might be invited inside.”
“You seem a decidedly unconventional person,” began the other with dawning disfavor. “Conventionality, like charity, begins at home,” he replied quickly. “And one would hardly call this advertisement a pattern of formal etiquette.” “True enough,” she admitted, dimpling, and Average Jones was congratulating himself on his diplomacy, when the querulous voice broke in again, this time too low for his ears. “I don’t ask you the real reason for your extraordinary call,” pursued the girl with a glint of mischief in her eyes, after she had responded in an aside, “but auntie thinks you’ve come to steal my dog. She thinks that of every one lately.” “Auntie? Your dog? Then you’re Sylvia Graham. I might have known it.” “I don’t know how you might have known it. But I am Sylvia Graham–if you insist on introducing me to yourself.”

I have no idea what is going on in this passage, but that Sylvia Graham sounds like a firecracka’!

The best part about these work emails is that they all include a picture with them, but I’m too terrified to open it. As much as I want my work computer to be slower, adding a virus or any sort of craziness to the poor machine would be a bad idea. The world may never know what “envoy.jpg” was, but the mysticism of unknowing is not lost on me. Bravo, Mr. Goodhart; bravo.