Well, thanks to over-work at the day job, my brain has turned to mush and is now heading (via a series of mysterious, rarely-used tubes and channels) towards my sagging calves. In lieu of the usual trite synthesis that we tend to post, I thought it would be nice to go into some of the behind the scenes aspects of this here website:

In general, our goal is to post one nice, long, well thought-out piece every weekday. We rarely hit this mark.

Fodder for our posts comes from the stuff we read online during our breaks and lunches at work, or the stuff we read at home. Once we achieve an "A-Ha!" moment, and are compelled to write it down, we work out some basic structure, note that in a file in Google Docs, and wait until we’ve got the free time to actually compose a post. (If we merely have a quick-fire reaction to something, we usually post it to Snappy Patter, and then forget about it.)

Almost all of the posts we write are created in Windows Live Writer. After a quick, second pass to revise our work, we will schedule the post to go live during the morning of the next business day. If it still needs more work, we’ll save as a draft, and then, 99% of the time, we’ll look at it the next day, then grow despondent when we realize how bad it is, then dump it.

Our main "rig" at home is an old laptop with a Pentium III, 997 mHz processor, 386 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive behemoth. We also have a Apple iBook Duel USB, with a 500 mHz PowerPC proc that just barely works. We use that as a back-up when we travel, since it actually has a battery that will hold a charge (45 minutes worth).

For browsing, we use whatever the latest version of Firefox is. We are a Windows shop, chiefly because we’ve spent the last ten years fixing various versions of it, and we’ve only just gotten it the way we like it. Also, if it breaks, I can usually fix it without too much trouble. Messed around with Ubuntu a couple of times, but it can’t seem to play nice with my wireless card, so there you go.

So that’s basically how we roll.

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