Month: July 2006

Astoria Blacked Out!

For those of you who haven’t heard, [Astoria has been under blackout conditions](http://ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=61154) since Tuesday night. We were still under said conditions when I left for work this morning, and expect to be in them through the better part of the weekend, if ConEd is to be believed.

One important thing to remember when you read news stories about this: ConEd loves to throw out this number of “1900 homes”. The proper term should be “1900 customers”. Each building is essentially one customer. I’ve seen estimates that 250,000 people are affected. (Since I originally wrote this post, ConEd has admitted that [the number of customers affected is roughly 25,000](http://www.amny.com/news/local/newyork/am-coned0721,0,580714.story?coll=am-topheadlines).)

After throwing out all of our groceries last night, I decided to get out the camera and walk down Ditmars today; there are a [few more](http://www.flickr.com/photos/remydwd/tags/blackout/) on Flickr.

Tags astoria, blackout, coned, nyc

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Vox Me

I’ve been “blogging” (quotes make it seem like I may have been doing something else!) for over six and a half years. In that time, I’ve had a horrible dilemma to grapple with: what exactly am I blogging about?

Faced with this, I have always chosen the dyslexic path. Political strife one day, geek howtos the next, wacky anecdotes the third day. My lack of a central topic has given more than one person whiplash.

This will never change.

However, there is one form of blogging I’ve been remiss from doing across practically the entire duration: short and informal. I would reckon that this might be called “Livejournal-style”, as it’s terribly popular over there. Memes, polls, one liners, single links – all the sort of stuff you tend not to want to use when trying to reach an audience.

But, still, there is an itch to scratch. And thusly Six Apart has stepped up and created Vox, essentially LiveJournal crossed with TypePad. In terms of use, it seems to be getting a lot of mileage from established long-form bloggers who want to pretend like they’re on LiveJournal with their established long-form blogger friends.

This just happens to be up my street, so I have joined thanks to a friend-of-a-friend invite.
So for those of you who want more spontaneous Dan, who’s mostly going to focus on little events or music reviews or what have you, make sure you go over there and/or subscribe. I’m not ditching this blog by any stretch (and those of you who are reading on LJ, the syndicated account isn’t going anywhere either), I’m just expanding the business.

The business of giving you the business.

EDIT: Those of you on LJ who want to keep up from there should subscribe to remy_vox. Thanks, starcreator!