Well this is just great. I was all ready to write a post about how great the Curse of the Bambino was. How the best part of the whole World Series was when the inevitable happened and the Sox lost. It would have been brilliant. But no! The Curse is over. Boston, it would seem, is TitleTown. 2 Super Bowls, 1 World Series, some jinx. I blame Shelly. She declared herself the anti-Curse and look at what’s happened.

I was looking around on Blog Explosion and found that my site had been rated 4 times. Yea! With an average rating of 4. I suck! My first instinct was to whine and ask everyone who came through on BE to rate my site. As I thought about that, I decided it would be much worse if 100 people had rated my site and I still had a 4. Blog Explosion has been cool. When I first started this, this summer, I did not know anyone else who blogged. It was very difficult to get noticed or networked. I feel BE has really helped with that. Later tonight I’m going to add some links, mostly folks I’ve found through BE. The extra traffic has been cool too, I’m very glad so many of you have taken the time leave comments. I know that takes more than 30 seconds.

At work, I’ve been tasked with creating an Intranet site. I started putting together a prototype last week and showed it to the boss. The scope creep began immediately. Could we have files uploaded that the associates could then access, e.g. new employee hand book. Could this be down with editing the site? Could we attach it to a database and use to collect data? Exciting, but close to being out of my league. The good news is that I’m not supposed to be web designer or a developer so the expectations are low. The bad news is I still have all of my other responsibilities.

I was prepared to download Slackware and build my Linux box, but Jon posted a message and suggested that I give Gentoo a look. I checked out their site. And I was impressed. This weekend, if time allows I will start setting the Linux Box with Gentoo.