It's been a while since this blog last completely stalled, but that's what's happened again of late. (There were zero posts in April.) What's up? Truth be told, I am sick of mahnamahna.net's look, which has largely remained the same since the site's inception in 2002. I am also sick of comment spam, and defeating it means getting my hands dirty with some serious hacking on the comments system I've got in place around here. And lastly, I want to implement modern, whiz-bang templates on my photo galleries, and again, that's going to be somewhat of an undertaking, as the scripts I use to drive those are not very amenable to different looks and feels. So the upshot is this: Posts are likely to remain infrequent until I get this place whipped into shape. And that could take some time.

I haven't yet reached the point on my own life path where I can experience what I imagine is the unparalleled joy of parenthood. But I am very, very much enjoying being an honorary uncle (I really need a better word or phrase than that) to two recent arrivals on this planet. Here I am with young Ben, and even younger Harper.



[Thanks to proud fathers Andy and Byrne for the great shots!]