The end of Semester is one week away.
I’m starting to get itchy blogging fingers.
I spent most of today updating WordPress from 2.5 to 2.8.5 (it’s been a while!), plowing through 443 comments in the moderation queue, and cleaning up a few other odds and sods.
I’m on the start line again, and the engine’s humming.
So, I’m thinking about starting Hawk Wings up again.
It’s been a while. I’ve missed it. I wonder, after all this time, if anyone else is still missing it too.
At first, I’ll be busy on the back end. While I’ve been gone WordPress has jumped from 2.5 to 2.8. There are 924 comments backed up in the moderation queue.
But I’ll quietly plug away and posts will soon be appearing again.
I”m looking forward to it.
After taking a little break from Hawk Wings due to a rush of Real Life, I now find myself in the eye of the storm.
So I am going to post some stuff.
Thanks to all the people who emailed wondering if I had fallen under a bus or been burnt at the stake. It’s nice to be missed.
Claire Rottenberg has started up 
a new directory of “quality Mac web sites”.
As she explains :
Sifting through the hundreds or even thousands of websites with Mac information is a time-intensive effort, so I decided to create this blog to help other Mac users with that task. I’ll be continually adding reviews of Mac websites that meet certain quality criteria.
Hawk Wings was lucky enough to get a work over in her one of her first posts.
She judges that “the writing is in clear, non-technical language that is easily understood, even when the topic is an advanced one” but points out (correctly) that “some entries have typographical errors”.
Sadly even with the best intentions, typos do creep in, a sure sign perhaps that the writer is an “established journalist”.
I’m guilty as charged (apologies), but couldn’t resist pointing out a delicious little irony in the review:
[Thanks, Scott!]
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A few days ago, the Hawk Wings list of 254 different stamp icons for Mail.app was dugg.
Before the digg, Mint tells me that 58% of visitors to Hawk Wings use Safari and 27% Firefox.
After the digg—and a fair bit of traffic—those figures are 47% and 37%.
I don’t know what it means, but it’s interesting. Perhaps Firefox users are more social.
Hawk Wings is moving moved to a new home at TextDrive today, from one server to another.
The site did disappear for a bit, and is still a bit wobbly. It will bed down though.
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