My apologies for missing last week’s entry. To make up for it, I will have one or two Very Special bonus entries later this week.

Astute readers will notice a subtle change: I’m now promising something interesting every Tuesday, instead of every Monday. Aside from the fact that it will give me one extra day this week to write my entry, for a variety of reasons that are too Not Interesting to go into, I think it will be an easier day for me to post things. So: henceforth, check back in every Tuesday (including tomorrow) for Something Interesting.
I will now attempt to distract you from the fact that the percentage of Yankee Fog posts dealing with the fact that I am falling behind in my posting is rapidly approaching 99.9% via the following diversion: Hey! Look over there! It’s a photograph of the Odd Erection guy from last week’s entry!

Lately, I’ve been shockingly bad about delivering on my promise of “Something Interesting Every Monday” (unless you find it interesting to discover that I haven’t been updating the site.) My apologies to my loyal readers. Expect a new entry within the next 24 hours, and then a return to my regular Monday schedule.

I’ve returned from my travels jetlagged and with a bad cold and a mild fever to boot, not to mention a few deadlines for freelance jobs. As a result, there will be no Something Interesting this week; my apologies.
But to tide you over, be sure to check out the participants in International Write Yankee Fog For Me Day. Roger Peng wins the prize for Best Entry Via Trackback, and “JK” wins for Best Entry Via Comments. Judging was made easy by the high quality of their entries, and by the fact that they were the only two entries I received.

I’m trying to build up readership for Yankee Fog, and I’ve noticed that starting a campaign is a great way to get people to link to your site. Watching what other websites have done, I’ve seen campaigns for causes ranging from minor issues like opposition to the Iraq war to really important issues like the right to make new mixes of Beatles’ songs or eat pasta. However, it’s hard for me to imagine what causes might be well-suited for Yankee Fog. Put George Washington in Trafalgar Square Day? Go To Belgium And Stop In Every Chocolate Shop You Find Day? Neither of those seemed quite right. At the same time, I’m going to be traveling next week, and unlikely to have the chance to post my usual Something Interesting on Monday.
Thefore, I hereby declare this coming Monday, May 31, to be International Write Jacob’s Blog For Him Day.

I’m experimenting with a few updates to the site–things like using a different hit counter, and so forth. Please forgive any strangeness while I sort it out.

One of the pleasures of running a website is seeing how visitors stumble upon it. Thanks to the wonders of javascript, when somebody clicks on some other website’s link to Yankee Fog, I can see the name of the referring website. If that website is a search engine, I can even see the search terms that led them to me.

I’m traveling right now, so I’m afraid there will be no something interesting this week. Sorry about that. To make up for it, next week, I will post something that is twice as interesting as usual, as measured by the most finely calibrated interestingometer available to man.

By popular demand, I’ve started dating entries based on when I posted them, not on when the events occcurred. Sorry for any confusion I might have caused.
On a side note, I’ve always hated those very special episodes of TV shows, where the writers of “Punky Brewster” would suddenly decide that the burning question on the nation’s mind was, “What do the writers of Punky Brewster think about the death penalty?” I’m therefore a bit reluctant to lure people to Yankee Fog with the promise of amusing stories of life abroad, and then, in a sort of aesthetic bait-and-switch, provide you with political commentary instead. However, as an American, I cherish my God-given right to believe that nobody in the world is willing to make up their minds on a given issue until I have weighed in on it. As a compromise, therefore, I’ve let myself write a piece that offers yet another opinion on whole gay marriage debate, but I am posting it as a Very Special Saturday Bonus. I’ll have my usual Something Interesting About Life In London to post on Monday.

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