I’m pleased to announce that the New and Improved Keacher.com is open. I’ve completed the move of the domain from Ringworld onto my own server. Why should you care? For one, now I can do cool things like a custom Keacher.com e-mail address. Secondly, I can now control the DNS information for Keacher.com, as I am Root on both the primary and secondary nameservers.

Want a fun word to impress your friends with? Was torpor not good enough? Try opprobrium! Meaning “a cause of shame or disgrace,” I imagine many will go through life without it ever once falling on their ears.

That reminds me of the pronunciation of ‘Porsche.’ The correct pronunciation is ‘PORSH – ah,’ with two syllables, not the ‘porsh’ inflection that many utter. Yes, I know that Gone in 60 Seconds used the ‘porsh’ version, but a movie’s mistake does not a truth make. If one says ‘porsh’ among those in the know, it is akin to yelling, “Look at me! I’m trying to sound cool, but I’m really a neophyte!”

To summarize:

• opprobrium == you rock!
• porsh == d’oh

Cheers!