A little while back I made a post about an old LiveJournal entry and a new article. Going through my bloglines clippings I found the article. It discusses the experimental findings that people can accurately judge personality by looking at someone’s face. You can find the original article here.

I know you’re all just dying for an update, but I’ve been in something of a quandry over what to write lately. First of all, let me point out this fine example of how I expect you to pop your collar, if you do at all:

Also, check out my photostream, where I’ve added several pictures from my phone.

That’s all for now.

I just upgraded my blog software to WordPress version 1.5 from version 1.2.1. This is a test of making a post, and checking that it syncs to my LiveJournal properly.

I just booked a flight from New York, NY to Niamey, Niger for this summer.

I can’t believe I’m doing this.

EDIT: I should note that I won’t be there all summer, just two weeks, but what I meant is that the trip is in the summer. End of July, actually.

If you check the trackbacks for my last post, you’ll notice that someone stumbled upon my blog via a trackback on Gaping Void, read my latest post, and commented that I probably don’t have a great bedside manner. He said something in his post about learning a lesson, and I think I have.

I need to be outwardly less negative.

Things are going great for me, I think I get along well with the people around me, but often I let too much of what’s not going well dominate conversation. This has actually been an ongoing focus, and I think it still needs a bit of work.

I also must admit that that post was a bit of an experiment. It was what I acutally thought, and would have commented normally, but I was intensely curious what far-reaching effects commenting via trackback might have, rather than leaving my usual short comment on the other person’s blog. Hugh never responded to an email from me, but one trackback post on a controversial subject and there it was. A reply.

It’s fascinating.