Blog Improvement Notes

I've finally added image hosting (hat tip to Curtis Weeks) and trackback capabilities (hat tip to Martin Lindeskog) to my blog. While this blog is primarily a way for me to practice writing and keep abreast of the news, I've wanted to post images from time to time and have considered adding a couple of entry categories that would require this ability. Concerning the trackback, I am a little annoyed with how the footers to my posts look now, but that'll have to be an eyesore for awhile, I'm afraid. This is not so much a problem with the trackback script per se, but with my poor understanding of Blogspot templates. Suggestions are welcome.

Just to give the image hosting a whirl, I'll post an image sent in to be by a reader (who asks to be identified only as A. H.) who shares my love of ska music (both the precursor to reggae and a still-evolving genre) and has a linguistics bent. He was pretty much unfazed when I asked him whether he'd ever heard of Matisyahu, the "Hasidic Reggae Superstar" whose concert I recently attended. He hadn't, but did say this: "I expected it to be about Alan Eder ('Mr. E'), creator of 'Reggae Chanukah' and 'Reggae Passover'." Then, to make sure I remembered who knew more about my favorite kind of music, he gave me the above image, which is a compound letter in Tibetan for "ska". Ah, but has he ever heard of the Ska Brewing Company? Now there's a place I want to go! I finally have a reason to go to Colorado some day!

-- CAV