You may or may not have noticed that the RSS feed for this site was lost in the switch. I didn’t notice, actually, so thanks to reader Vee for pointing it out. In fact, the people who use RSS are the least likely to notice—they’ll just stop seeing my posts.

John and I have been working on it, and we think it’s fixed now. You should be able to access the feed at http://prepoceros.com/feed/, the same address as before. There does appear to be a lingering problem with Bloglines (and maybe other readers), which seems to have cached the broken version. Since the link is the same, we’re waiting to see if Bloglines will fix itself in the next day or two. I’ve tried unsubscribing and resubscribing, but it made no difference. Google Reader, meanwhile, picks up the correct feed just fine.

If you’re having trouble with the above link, you can also try http://prepoceros.com/wp-rss.php. We’ll keep an eye on this mess and let you know how it turns out.

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P.S. While trying to figure out the RSS stuff, we discovered that the switch had also broken all of my permalinks. They should be working now.

Today I switched hosts (Bluehost to Dreamhost) for this site. It was John’s idea; Dreamhost is better for various reasons that I’m sure he’s explained several times. I think the switch went smoothly, but if you see anything that appears to be broken, let me know. And for anyone who is about to comment that my face appears to be broken, yes, yes, you’re very funny. Run along now.

One highlight of mucking around in the blog’s innards is that I finally figured out how to remove that obnoxious “miscellany” tag from my tag cloud.

Here’s the totally boring story: I prefer tags to categories. WordPress used to have only categories. A few versions ago they added tags, but they still kept categories. Every post must be assigned to a category. If you don’t assign it to one, it goes into the default category, which I’d named “miscellany.” I stopped using categories when tags came along, so all my posts went into the “miscellany” category. I can’t delete that category.

Unfortunately, WordPress seems to have trouble keeping categories and tags separate. To every post that by default went into the *category* “miscellany,” it secretly added a *tag* “miscellany.” This ruined my tag cloud, making all the real tags tiny in comparison to the enormous, meaningless MISCELLANY.

This has been bothering me for probably a year now, but today I finally found a way to delete WordPress’s made-up “miscellany” tag. The cloud looks much better now, don’t you think?

Tom at TrueTalk wonders if women under forty call themselves “feminists” anymore.

For my own part, I certainly think women and men should have equal rights, but I don’t label myself a feminist. To my generation (I was born in 1984), the word signals radicalism and activism. If many more women openly called themselves feminists in the ’60s and ’70s, I guess either feminism was more mainstream back then, or radicalism itself was more acceptable.

Today, if a woman under forty tells me she’s a feminist, it’s usually because she has An Agenda, and I’m about to get an earful. It doesn’t matter whether she approves of whatever I just said or the behavior I just described in someone else—there’s gonna be a speech.

Agendas aren’t bad in and of themselves, but I don’t want to be associated with that kind of in-your-face crusade, so I avoid calling myself a feminist. Being a feminist may be a legitimate point of pride for some people, but it’s just not me.

I’ve found, actually, that it’s more acceptable for young men to call themselves feminists these days than for young women to do so. A man who labels himself that way COULD be a speechifying activist, but he could also be a modern, progressive, considerate, non-crusading guy. I’ve met a few of the latter kind. Heh, maybe this is another injustice for the crusaders to rail against. I’m not all that worked up about it.

I know most of my five readers are under forty. Do y’all (male or female) call yourselves feminists?

I came to school today because I thought the low-distraction environment would help me focus on studying for my exams.

I’m in the journal office right now. It’s the best place I’ve found to study, at least when it’s not too busy, because it has lots of semi-enclosed workspaces with big desks. And, unlike in the library, I can eat in here.

Today there are three people in the office besides me. Two are studying quietly at a table together. The third is bravely attempting to induce carpal tunnel syndrome by playing a computer game that involves incessant high-speed clicking.

I’m pretty sure wrist injuries won’t get you out of taking your exams. Why are you here, clicky-person? Over the last forty-five minutes, not thirty seconds have gone by without a barrage of clickclickclickclickclick. Can’t you clickclick at home?

What’s that, voice of reason? Ask clicky-person to stop? You mean, like, go over there and say it out loud? No, that’s crazy. I will put in my taiko earplugs and fume on the internet instead.

Okay, I can’t think of a clever way to introduce this post, so I’m going to come out and say it: Carol Hannah has an Etsy shop!

What can I say? I love Project Runway, especially Carol Hannah, who is so adorable and talented, and I loooooooove Etsy.

I can’t afford her clothes and I have nowhere to wear most of them, but that doesn’t make me any less happy at the discovery. Squee!

If I had $3400 to spend on a wedding dress, I’d get this one in ivory. So lovely.

I am so happy inside right now. Can’t help but grin.