My New Website

I'd like to announce the arrival of my new website, Scott's House. It can be found at scottholstad.com. It has a Pittsburgh Penguins fan site complete with Stanley Cup information, pictures, and videos, a number of archived technical articles I've written over the years, a page devoted to my 13 years as a college student …

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My Fifth WordPress Anniversary

WordPress was kind enough to notify me a few days ago, on the 20th, that it was my my fifth anniversary with them, blogging away the whole time. It's hard to believe. I had come over from Xanga, a blogging site I had been on since 2004 and one I loved desperately. It's just that …

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Switching Domains

I'm considering switching blog domains because I'm sick to death of all of the disgusting ads WordPress has been littering my blog pages with. I know why they are doing it and it's working. They want me to upgrade from free to a paying premium account and that's exactly what I'm probably going to do. …

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Annual WordPress Report

Here are my 2015 WordPress blog statistics. Some interesting things. Thanks to all of you who have visited my site and who have commented as well. I hope to see you in 2016! https://hankrules2011.wordpress.com/2015/annual-report/  

A Review of Foundation and Empire

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov My rating: 1 of 5 stars I'm sorry if I sound like a sci fi traitor, but this book sucks. And this series sucks. I have no idea how it won a one time Hugo for best sci fi/fantasy trilogy of all time, beating Lord of the Rings, but …

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