I don’t know if this place is working any better – we still seem stuck with this black on grey color scheme – but I’ve decided what this blog will be about. I’m still not happy about the creative limitations posed by the lack of customization, but given the subject matter – the books I’m reading – this limitation isn’t as annoying as it might otherwise have been.

I’ll discuss this in greater depth on the blog homepage.

Comments added, much after the fact (Oct. 4, 2009): The forced monochrome look was to be found on Tabulas, not on WordPress.

The irony of all of this is that, as I set up this mirror site, the greyscale look of the other location has become a nonegotiable; what had been a source of annoyance became a source of delight, and something that I decided I would let define my blog, in part, much of whose subject matter will be coming from what one might call the black and white era, before the end of World War Two, before color made its appearance in the movies; the film noir era and earlier.

Yes, Humphrey Bogart is destined to appear on this blog.

As I’ve been trying to set up this blog, I’ve noticed how very much of this site isn’t working, yet. I’ll cut out of here for a while and come back later, when the sysop has more of the bugs worked out of his system. I think I’ll check back in mid January and see if the problems have been resolved.

Until then, here’s the url for my update list, where you can find some of the other sites that I’m working on:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Joseph_Dunphy

Nothing much to say right now, just getting my sites going.

If you’re here because you’re trying to return to your ring and don’t see the links for it below, perhaps because of a recent ring merger, you need to go to the ring return page for this blog.