Tentacled Monkey

As you may have noticed I completely changed the blog to Tentacled Monkey. What is a tentacled monkey? Hell I don't know but it sounds demented! This is going to be my primary stomping ground from now on and I would like to invite you to join on a romp through the weird and tech savvy.

The more I play with the Blogger interface, the more I really am enjoying it. I have also started using the Windows Live Writer program from Micro$oft, and must admit that it is a very useful piece of software.

So I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that the domain is going away, but this leaves me in a weird spot.  I very haven't not had a domain in a very long time.  But seeing as how I am attempting to be cheap, I figure I can use a free domain - I already have one, themurfman.is-a-geek.com, for that matter - and Blogger.  The real reason is for the outlet and to play.  If I have my Linux box and CLI then I am really happy there. 

Anyway, life moves on I suppose.  Maybe someone can actually make use of the damn domain and do something with it.  Cthulhu knows I couldn't.

So for the last week or so I have been blogging for a tech site that is trying to get off the ground, and I realized something.  I don't like blogging for other people, and right now I really don't have the time to do it properly.  Still, I think that the experience is worth it and I will try and pump out 2-3 posts a day for the guy, but honestly I am not sure how much longer I can do it.

It would seem to me to be much more productive to just keep blogging for myself and get better and better in the craft of writing in general so that I can branch out a little bit more.  We'll see how this all goes down.

BTW, I am about to lose the CTHULHUONLINE.COM domain and it is really depressing me.  If someone wants to give me $20 so I can pay GoDaddy then please email me.

Some stuff just needs to be owned.  This is one of them.  If anyone asked WTF? I would simply ask them, "You killed my father. Prepare to die."  And start slaking towards them slowly...

Find it here for $17 bucks you can't beat it.

The prog-rock group Mars Volta has released their latest album, The Bedlam in Goliath, to mixed reviews. I have been a huge Volta fan since before there was a Mars Volta, back when guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala were still involved with At the Drive In. This latest album is more of a return to the powerfully complex rhythms of previous albums without the slower aspects of the later albums, Frances the Mute for example. While this does not detract from the overall product, some silence can be golden, and at times it seems like Bedlam really needs it.

Overall, this is an amazing prog-rock album that fans of the group will enjoy. The story behind the album is one of the strangest I have heard in a while though. Evidently the band was plagued with ghosts and a really bad string of luck that was attributed to a spirit conjured by the group while on tour in 2006-07 from the use of an Israeli ougi board. Making for an interesting read in its own right.

A new web site hoping to be an Engadget or Gizmodo clone is looking for content writers.  So I put in and have most likely accepted a position with them.  I am doing this for a few different reasons really, but mainly to get into the business and giving me more reason to blog openly. 

I will fill everyone in on the details as I come by them.

I am test running the Windows Live Writer app this week in an effort to just see what the hell is going on here.  And surprisingly I am kind of liking it.  Someone over at M$ obviously has removed their collective heads from their asses and was able to produce a product worth a damn, for free!  Miracles never cease to amaze me. 

I am writing this with WLW and have to admit the ability to fluff past my boss by running a local app to post my web posts is really appealing to me.  I realize that this isn't the norm, but screw it, I enjoy it.