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Despite my seemingly empty promises, I have not vanished from the face of the earth. There will be more mind-expanding, earth-shattering, nobel-prize-quality, world-changing, hyphenated-word-described written works of art to come.

Don’t touch that dial. The mouse and keyboard you may caress to your heart’s content.

If you’re looking for something wonderful to read in the meantime, try a book. Short of that, internet writing doesn’t get much better than Killing Batteries.

Not only have I not written anything for a while, the site was down due to one of ThePlanet’s datacenters having an electrical explosion.  Now I know where my site is hosted 

Anyway, I’m going to be doing some upgrades to the site, and start posting again, so stay tuned (all 0 of you)!

Alright, after no ado, we have J.R.’s blog and home on the web. Soon enough, the homepage of this site will be http://www.runningskull.com The site is off the subdomain, and runningskull.com is now live!, and you’ll go to a homepage of sorts instead of this blog. I’m also going to update the pages linked to above, so that they’ll be more than a gaping gray screen when you click on them. I’m also going to get a nice footer down there at the bottom. Footers are cool, m’kay.

Why a blog/website? I think that a blog is fast becoming a great supplement to/replacement for a resumé, and it’s about darn time I started one up. I’m a geek and such anyway. I also am going to use the site as a sort of professional homepage. I do freelancing work and entrepreneurial-based side projects, so I’d like to advertise my services and products here. Plus, I think this whole internet thing could take off.

I also used to like to write a lot. Then I came to tech, where code > prose, and I’ve lost some of that love for language. Time to get it back.

It’s not going to be all professional, though. I like a lot more stuff than just computers, and in order to really get a feel for me, you’re going to have to listen to me ramble on about running, hiking, kayaking, playing banjo, camping, cooking, being in college, my all-knowing and controversial insights into humanity, travel, sports, incredibly witty satire and whatever else pops into my mind late at night when any sane person is asleep. If I thought it might smell good, I’d call it potpourri.

And best of all, no one is ever going to read this post! Yipee ki yay!

Oh, and also, I can only test this in Firefox (linux), Firefox (Vista) and IE7 (Vista). If you notice something looking funky, please let me know, and let me know what browser/OS you are using. Screenshots are gold, but if you see something stupid and don’t feel like putting in all that effort, just reply to this post. Thanks.