After long hours toiling in the UNIX mines, I’ve finished upgrading the various bits and bobs behind the Men From Sky facade. At the same time, I’ve kicked together - twice - an articular draft for Rob@(d)N0t. Once I can get through to the fine friend who ended up being my photographer on today’s expedition into the heart of the Icelandic Dream, it shall be published. My ego will, of course, compel me to post news of such things here.

I would write more, but the hour is late and tomorrow, as someone once said, is another day.

If you truly want to get technical, today is another day.

The idea, originally, was beautiful in its simplicity. A few hundred words every other day or so, describing the daily struggles of an American grappling with expatriatism and acclimatizing to a rather unique pace of life. What it failed to take into account, of course, was the seduction afforded by internet silence and a “unique pace of life” disrupting writing’s natural rhythms.

That is, of course, no excuse. I might just as well claim lack of muse or will.

Regardless, we, collectively speaking, are now Here, in a new Year. We’ve received Hope from a new President for the United States and the Promise of a new Parliament for Iceland. The past months have been traumatically dramatized by the ever-toppling stream of financial dominoes.

I’ve recently started, or re-started, a few other side projects in lieu of playing with games during the rare free evening. Now seems as good an opportunity as will be had to give an old project compository-prosical resuscitation.

This evening, should I not be sidetracked - don’t count on that - I intend to update the software behind the site and crack out one of a few things that have been clawing away at my braincase. But for now, I must depart - my good friend Rob of (d)N0t has requested I investigate the unusual riots that have, of late, rocked downtown Reykjavik.

I spent a few hours over the last couple days dinking with a few things. First and foremost, thanks to J-Bla of American Hooligans for the work on my banner logo. If you’re not seeing text up top, hard-refresh the page (hold CTRL on Windows, CMD on OSX). I also installed an anti-spam plug-in, so if you have trouble posting comments or something, e-mail me. There’s a few more things behind the scenes, but those haven’t been employed outside of a testing context yet.

Anyway, things are running pretty smoothly, so if my “closed beta” guys don’t report issues over the next week, I think it’ll be time to take this sucker public. Excitement!

Yeah yeah, crappy joke, whatever. This thing looks to be purring like a kitten. Needs a little touch-up here and there, perhaps. Still, not bad for an afternoon’s work.

I’ve been thinking of setting up a dev-blog thing for a while now. As things are moving along on the relocation front, and I can pretty confidently say I’ll be taking off for the next stop on the World Tour fairly soon, I decided to get the shit going while I wait for Honda to call me back.

I’m still not entirely sure what precise purpose MFS is going to end up serving. It’s not going to subsume SB, which I’ll probably keep private for the existing SB crowd, and I don’t intend on tossing up a MFS forum. I know I intend to post, uh, posts about stops on the World Tour, as well as photographs. Maybe some gaming stuff. Who knows?

Too lazy early to figure all that out now.