Fallen Into Knowledge

Below this point lies all the posts originally posted to christopherlayton.blogspot.com

Okay, forget the cosmetic changes. This Blog has moved. It has decided to join my Website. Afterall, it was kinda ridiculous to have a website at one address and a blog at another. So head over to www.christopherlayton.org and let me know what you think of the new digs.

I had grown tired of the look of the blog, and tired of the title; and so finally being inspired by Joyce, I decided to make a leap of Faith.
The new title is inspired by John Milton’s Paradise Lost:

“Out of the fertil ground he caus’d to grow
All Trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste;
And all amid them stood the Tree of Life,
High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Fruit
Of vegetable Gold; and next to Life
Our Death the Tree of Knowledge grew fast by,
Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.”

This spot marks an absent post. Someone, rightfully, objected to the post, and so I have deleted it. I had offered a link to a new site, Overheard in the Office, which in its first three days looked mighty funny, and so I linked to it so as to share the amusement. However, the quality of the humor, as was noted by the anonymous comment, deteriorated rapidly. I apologize to that reader of this blog, I did not intend to endorse humor that is crude, nor do I endorse such humor.

[experiencing technical difficulties] Or, at least I was. If you’ve wondered why posts have been lacking lately, it is because I finally chucked my Microsoft CD’s out the window. I am operating on a “brand new” computer: the same hardware now running Fedora Core 2 (formerly Red Hat Linux) I don’t have everything up and running yet (DVD video, TV tuner, some other things aren’t configured yet) but I was pleasently suprised just how much worked “out of the box” (iPod, SATA RAID, dual head monitor/dual video cards, etc). It is looking good and running notably faster than under XP. Anyhow, I am up and running again.

There is a new feature on my website. (Drumroll please….) Question of the week! Every week I intend to have a new question open for discussion on an adjacent blog. Give us your 2c.

Here it is! the website, as you already know is off the ground (even if not fully constructed), and this blog will serve as the forum. If you want to participate in this forum email me and I will send along an invitation. Also, for those of you with newsreaders (go here if you don’t have one but want one: http://www.rssreader.com/) this is my rss feed for this blog: http://christopherlayton.blogspot.com/atom.xml