{"id":976,"date":"2007-01-09T16:57:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T22:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/2007\/01\/09\/the-new-challenge\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T23:02:43","slug":"the-new-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"The new challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=976\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>I think I can give you a few different reasons why it&#8217;s been so quiet in Bitterman Circle:<\/p>\n<p>1) The Holidays<\/p>\n<p>2) How Bitterman reacts to the holidays<\/p>\n<p>3)General Creative Stasis mode<\/p>\n<p>4)Nothing of any real importance I wanted to share because of 1,2 and 3.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is in early December my wife Angela&#8217;s mother passed away and it has consumed a great deal of attention and energy. I am quite glad that I was home when it happened and that I could be here for her in the past 5 weeks to assist her with the many issues associated with her mother&#8217;s passing. We just returned from a weekend trip to Florida where we had to deal with her estate and visit with family. Work and blogging has had to be put on hold until we could get a handle on the situation.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glad to say we returned this morning safely and I gutted my home directory for Bitterman and have been dealing with various format crashes that I have to admit I was probably totally responsable for. The migration of original posts made with Radio Userland to WordPress has been smooth but I monkeyed with the permalink structure for the podcasts and have to rebuild the podcast directory.<\/p>\n<p>You will find a few different things here now; catagories and tags can help you find old posts.<br \/>\nMy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">flickr<\/a> sidebar is back as well as a daily cartoon from Hugh at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingvoid.com\">Gapingvoid.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sidebar list of my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\">del.icio.us<\/a> tags has carried over and you can find a very expanded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/writing\">writing section<\/a> which is slowly getting up to date.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to find a way to get the listing on the sidebar to collapse to save some space, but I haven&#8217;t found out how yet. If there are any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\">wordpress<\/a> geeks out there who know how, let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, update your feed to bitterman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/feed\/\">here<\/a> for both podcasts and blog posts. Content is coming!<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: right\">technorati tags:<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/new\">new<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/blog\">blog<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/format\">format<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/del.icio.us\">del.icio.us<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/flickr\">flickr<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/writing\">writing<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/poetry\">poetry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 8px\">Blogged with <a target=\"_new\" title=\"Flock\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\/blogged-with-flock\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I can give you a few different reasons why it&#8217;s been so quiet in Bitterman Circle: 1) The Holidays 2) How Bitterman reacts to the holidays 3)General Creative Stasis mode 4)Nothing of any real importance I wanted to share because of 1,2 and 3. 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