I’ve been listening to some new podcasts today. A particularly nice podcast dealing with geeky topics such as video games, and showing particularly insightful comments on movies starring rat chefs is the Weekly Geek Podcast:

Podcast for 07-02-07 | A Peasant Dish – Video Game Podcast and Blog | The Weekly Geek

They have almost enticed me into getting an Xbox 360. Thanks Chris, Collette, and The Geek. I’ll be checking out your podcast more regularly.

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In between cookouts, fireworks, going to see movies about giant robots or rat chefs, I hope that some of you will take a moment and consider the meaning of the day off and contemplate these documents which lately have faded into history as only of historical importance:

The Declaration of Independence
The United States Constitution

If you are feeling less skeptical than I, consider Dick Cheney’s recent claim that he’s part of the legislative branch, rather than part of the executive. Further consider that he’s trying to execute executive privilege, which, well, doesn’t exist for legislators.

Or just have a hot-dog and a soda, and go see a movie. We all need a day off. Here’s a little flash video of some fireworks I did a couple of years ago.

Well, I shook up the blog a little bit, and as is typical, a few things broke. Most notably, my feedburner feed was screwed for a few hours, I’m hoping that it is back and functional again. Expect a few more rough bits as we head toward nirvana.

One of the reasons that I’m doing this is so that I can use the new widgetized plugins that WordPress 2.2 has begun to support. I’m going to be back porting some of my own modifications to my old themes into a widgetized format (notably, my plugin that gives baseball player birthdays) and have used them to create a few new items, such as an “on this date” entry that shows postings from the same date in previous years (thanks Steve!).

Yes, I know the layout is a bit ugly right now. I’ll be tweaking it as time goes forward.