Michael R. Barrick's blog

I've repaired a few problems with the new site

• Replies to forum posts and comments on images and other pages are showing now. 
• Early Adopters and Paid Users can make blog posts again
• Some glitches with the new Album/Upload feature have been fixed (still need to write instructions for this, though)
• The feed aggregator is back - lots of eye-candy, reviews from ID:UD and more
• Ads are hidden for Early Adopters and Paid Users

And on the "new" side of things:

Today I sent out a very rare mass-mailing ostensibly to announce some upcoming major changes to the site, but also to do a user "ping" to weed out inactive accounts.

Because of my previous history with this character and a certain international sporting event that shall remain nameless, it was suggested to me by a good friend that I simply had to put this together. Click the image for a larger view and look carefully...

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My legs are very stiff today (and I'm sure they will be worse tomorrow). Why? As I work through the photos from last night it's apparent that in about a couple hundred of them I was kneeling or crouching to get the letters in. That's a couple hundred sustained half-squats, plus a half dozen trips up and down three stories worth of stairs, plus the awkward walk home pushing all my gear. Because photography is easy.