Today’s Structured Procrastination: Evaluating my marriage instead of doing the month’s worth of ironing I let pile up. (Read the rest of “A New Aspect to Our Relationship”)

Maggie Gyllenhaal speaks her mind at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival: ” I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way and so I think the delicacy with which it’s dealt [in the film] allows that to sort of creep in.” (Read the rest of “What a Fool Believes”)

Got a lot done yesterday at the expense of the laundry, which now consists of two piles: the clean and unsorted towering on top of my dining room table, and the dirty, stinky boy stuff perfuming the laundry room. (Read the rest of “Laundry? Or WordPress? Hmmmm…”)

A big surprise today in San Diego: Mayor Dick Murphy announced his resignation, effective July 15.

Last fall Donna Frye should’ve been given the mayoral office chair, but Dick Murphy held on to it despite the fact a majority of San Diegans didn’t vote for him. In fact, there was some question as to how many people actually voted for him or for Frye, something that was unclear due to the arbitrary way votes were counted. (Read the rest of “Murphy’s Law”)

I kept flipping back and forth between this theme (Dixiebelle) and my mangled blend of Neuro’s 3-column theme Devenir en Gris and Robin Hastings LetterHead.

(As far as I can figure, Devenir en Gris is French for “we Gauls like our three-column blogs dark and grey.” Not that I’ve run it through the Google translation box or anything, so don’t quote me.) (Read the rest of “WordPress To Do List”)

Installed two new plugins today: Ryan’s WordPress Contact Form and IO Error’s Bad Behavior Plugin. (Read the rest of “Too Much Fun: Two New Plugins”)

I discovered an “experimental column” in the L.A. Times called “Outside the Tent, in which the Times “invites outside critics to rip a Southern California newspaper whose most popular features include a weekly column on celebrity real estate transactions.”

I had to check it out! Right away I found the very funny “This One’s Waaaaay Outside the Tent” by Bob Sipchen, Sunday Opinion Editor. (Read the rest of “On the Woeful, Boneheaded Spurning of Puffery”)

It was a bumpy switch from web host to web host in order to get my permalinks working, but with help from several sources I learned all about the miracles of propagation. (And no, Mom, propagation is not what you think it is.) (Read the rest of “Podz to the Rescue”)

Most Geek Wannabes know exactly what to do when we can’t solve a problem on our own: run to the Real Geeks for help. (Read the rest of “Thanks to Jennifer & Kato”)

Decisions, decisions. Introducing my latest obsession: WordPress Blogging Software. (Read the rest of “Moving into WordPress”)