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The last time I called a Boston get-together, Skadz was quick to point out that Grendel’s is not in Boston proper, but is actually located in the People’s Republic of Cambridge. This time, the gathering will be at Clery’s, which is on the Boston side of the Charles.

(It’s proof of Jane Jacobs’ theories — a large enough discontinuity in the city landscape, whether it be a park, expressway, or river, really does create a barrier that’s as effective as a wall.)

But rnough urban theory. The gathering is at Clery’s and it starts at 8:30. I’d give out directions, but my knowledge of Boston geography is somewhat lacking. Here’s a map, in case you need one.

Fun will ensue!

As of four-ish this afternoon, I will be in Boston/Cambridge and at seven this evening, I’ll be attending the Berkman Thursday night blogger meeting, which will be chaired by The Redhead, as Dave Winer

is away. Dinner will follow the meeting. If you’d like to catch up, or

perhaps request an accordion tune, drop by, either in person, or on the

#bloggercon channel on irc.freenode.net.

Tomorrow evening, there’ll be a gathering at a Boston (and I mean

Boston, not the People’s Republic of Cambridge) bar to be named. Watch

this space for details.

This week’s Canadian blog linkfest is being hosted by the blog with the Atkins-compliant name, The Meatriarchy!

If you’ve missed any installment of the Carnival, you can always check the archives.

At some point during Gideon Strauss‘ blogger convivium last Christmas, I mentioned to him that I used to like programming while listening to a set of MP3s of William Gibson reading Neuromancer.

I kept them on my OpenCola-issued laptop while I worked there, and I

forgot to make a backup copy before dutifully handing it back when I

got laid off.

Gideon, a Gibson fan, asked me to let him know if I ever found more

copies. I’d forgotten about his request until this past weekend, and a

little Googling found me this site and this site, which has 8 MP3s, representing four 90-minute cassettes of the Neuromancer audiobook.

According to this page on the William Gibson Aleph, U2 — one of Gideon’s favourite bands — contributed a track to the audiobook.

Gideon, everyone: enjoy!

“The sky above the port was the the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel…”

…where it’s work, work, work. I’ll try and get caught up with my

“blogligations”. The usual blog entry will appear later tonight.

In the meantime, a little trivia about the blogs I write:

• Google rank of this blog for searches for “Joey”: 1
• Google rank of this blog for searches for “accordion”: 3
• Google rank of this blog for searches for the incorrectly-spelled “accordian”: 1
• Google rank of The Farm for searches for “The Farm”: 21
• Average pageviews per day for this blog: 6000
• Average pageviews per day for The Farm: 2100
• Google rank of Wendy’s blog for searches for “redhead”: 6
• Google rank of my boss’ Ross’ blog for searches for “Boss Ross”: 1
• Google rank of Boss’ Ross’ boss Noss’ blog for searches for “Boss Ross”: 4

<P>If you were to log into your Blogware Control Panel right now, you might be surprised when you see that the Navigation Bar now has a new tab:</P>
<P><IMG height=130 src=”http://blog.blogware.com/images/2004/03/post_tab/FirefoxScreenSnapz001.jpg” width=645></P>
<P>The new tab, the <STRONG>Post Tab</STRONG>, is simply a more convenient version of the <STRONG>Post Menu</STRONG>, which is tucked all the way up the upper right-hand corner of the page:</P>
<P><IMG height=181 src=”http://blog.blogware.com/images/2004/03/post_tab/FirefoxScreenSnapz007.jpg” width=304>
<P>Using the <STRONG>Post</STRONG> tab is simple: whenever you want to post a new entry, click the <STRONG>Post</STRONG> tab. You will be immediately taken to the <STRONG>Post Article</STRONG> page, as shown below:</P>
<P><IMG height=382 src=”http://blog.blogware.com/images/2004/03/post_tab/FirefoxScreenSnapz002.jpg” width=649></P>
<P>The Options submenu for the <STRONG>Post</STRONG> tab allows you to choose the kind of entry to post. The default is <STRONG>Article</STRONG>, but you can also click on <STRONG>Photo</STRONG> to post a photo to one of your photo albums…</P>
<P><IMG height=382 src=”http://blog.blogware.com/images/2004/03/post_tab/FirefoxScreenSnapz003.jpg” width=649></P>
<P>…or <STRONG>Music Review</STRONG> to post a new music review…
<P><IMG height=382 src=”http://blog.blogware.com/images/2004/03/post_tab/FirefoxScreenSnapz004.jpg” width=649></P>
<P>…or <STRONG>Movie Review</STRONG> to post a new movie review…</P>
<P><IMG height=382 src=”http://blog.blogware.com/images/2004/03/post_tab/FirefoxScreenSnapz005.jpg” width=649></P>
<P>…or <STRONG>Book Review</STRONG> to post a new book review…
<P><IMG height=382 src=”http://blog.blogware.com/images/2004/03/post_tab/FirefoxScreenSnapz006.jpg” width=649></P>
<H3>Note</H3>
<P>Switching from one entry type to another (say, from Article to Book Review) in the middle of working on an entry will cause that entry you were working on to be erased.</P>

All kinds of tasty geek reading in today’s edition of The Farm, the blog that I’m actually paid to write!