Housekeeping

A few changes to the site I wanted to let you readers know about.

First, I added a GrandCentral button that allows anyone visiting the page to give me a phone call, where ever I might be. Grandcentral is a IP telephony product that uses the internet to route incoming calls and to provide a single voice mail for all your phone numbers. In this case, you can simply click on the badge below my picture, enter your phone number, and GrandCentral will call both you and me, and patch us together.

This way, I don't have to put my phone number in public, you can reach me where ever I might be, and there's no fees. I hope some of you will use this feature as a tip line, and to get information about Drinking or Reading Liberally. Also, GrandCentral has a great recording function, so if you would like to do an interview for BlogForArizona, this tool allows recording of the phone interview and easy posting of the audio file to the internet. I'm sure to use something similar as a referral tool if I ever go into private practice, so I'm trying it out now to see how it goes.

For the trolls out there who might contemplate mischief, you should know that it is trivial matter to block unwanted calls as well as to record the content of any call, so you will run out of phones to call from long before I am inconvenienced, and there will be a record of any harassment.

The second change is BlogForArizona's Greatest Hits. When people are new to a site that they've found on a search or through a link, they often want to see some of the other work of the blogger. I've selected a few postings that I really like, and that I think hold up over time, being largely expository or explanatory. Even if you aren't new to the site, I hope you'll check these articles out, they may be new to you.

UPDATE: I also added an RSS feed from my NetFlix queue to the side bar below my current reading list. All the cool kids are doing it... which I guess means that doing so is officially no longer cool. Anyhow, thought at least someone might be interested in what I'm watching. Of course, this is just a feed from my movie and documentary queue, I have a separate queue for series and multi-disc sets, but I'm not going to bother with that.