My trip back from Montréal to Beijing was considerably less triumphant than I had hoped, as I was struck by a severe plague and ended up spending 9 very miserable days in bed with a high fever and nasty cough. One might think that being confined to bed for a week would be a nice thing, but the stunning boredom that sets in after a while is quite unbearable. You’re too tired to really work hard, focus on TV or movies, or even really read a book, but so sick of sleeping that you crave doing something.

And so, I updated the chipmunkninja.com website. I’ve long hated my initial design with forums and my crappy del.icio.us tagging scheme, so I finally fixed those up and now have a proper tagging system, some fun stats on the right side, and paging, so you don’t have to view every single article on one page now.

It’s still a rather ugly shade of red and contains the finest in 2005 style, but that’s a project another day ….

Bugs, comments, or suggestions, feel free to add a comment or drop me a line. Always glad to hear from readers.

The RSS feeds on the Chipmunk Ninja site have been changed slightly. For compatibility, the old rss/tech.rss and rss/personal.rss feeds will continue to work, but there are now three new feeds:

Sorry for the long pause in updating. I have spent the last couple of months writing a new blogging engine to power the Chipmunk Ninja web site. The problem with comments and extremely annoying process via which I would post new articles was getting to be a real problem.

The new system, while superficially quite similar to the old one, has a number of major new features: