Go go read read Bruce Schneier, What the Terrorists Want. Spot on.

Hat tip to Patrick over at Making Light.

Polytropos now runs on WordPress. Update your feedreader if you use one! Internal links are seriously broken, but many were already broken from the last big MT upgrade. I’m gonna fix the links in the Highlights entries over the next few days, though.

If you’re here wondering where on earth Cerin Amroth has gone, update your bookmark to the new url, here.

During my latest ill-advised bout of blog infrastructure tinkering, I managed to change to the newer, cleaner template, and in the process completely invalidate my old stylesheet. I also did a bit of tweaking to try to make comments 1) doable and 2) reasonably impervious to spam, and succeeded on point 1 but failed utterly on point 2.

Time for a clean start. Gonna move to WordPress. New directories and filenames will hopefully throw the comment spam off the trail. Lost links to old articles will be too bad, but hey, not like I’m writing anything worth linking to at the moment anyway. Nothing like an extended blogging hiatus to make switching platforms seem like not that big a deal.

I’ll keep the root url the same, though. Will probably change Cerin Amroth‘s url to something different, seeing as it’s gonna be about two kids in a while. Anyway, if the main page appears as one form or another of gobbledeegook in the near future, this is why.

Testing out Writely, Google’s new web-based word processor. I’m aware that Google appears intent on conquering the world. But they do seem to come up with interesting toys. We’ll see if their brags are correct and I can post directly from here to the blog.

UPDATE: Seems to have worked, other than screwing up the title.