My recent lack of posting doesn’t mean I’m not keeping up with what’s going on in the political world. But something continues to rear its obnoxious head, and a recent email I received points out how difficult it is to rid ourselves of certain pestilences. I’ve commented extensively here about Cindy Sheehan, and none too [...]
A few months ago, I commented on a new Internet security concept called SiteAdvisor. The idea is unique: why not dynamically test as many sites on the Internet as possible, and “rate” the site for visitor safety? Then make that rating information available to users via their browsers, providing an instant snapshot as they travel [...]
The Carnival of the Vanities is up and running at Incite. Beck had to get it up a little earlier than usual, but there’s still lots of great entries for your perusal.
Jay Dean is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Vanities at The Bird’s Eye View. This weeks offerings include about 60 entries, including the usual intestinal rumbles from yours truly. You couldn’t ask for a better momentary diversion from the news of the day. Visit Jay at once, do you hear? At once!
This week’s Carnival is being hosted over at Solomonia. Lots of goodies, including one by yours truly. Get over there now.
Fellow Northeast Florida blogger Rogers Cadenhead (who’s been posting like a madman in recent days) provides a great piece about the first blogger. The credit goes to someone way back in American history. Isn’t it a shame that this kind of history isn’t taught in today’s schools?
Isn’t it wonderful when people get lectured on a site with a name that seems to more appropriately describe the some of the opinions of its own contributors? I really appreciate it that “spatula,” one of the main contributors at morons.org, instructs us that there are lessons to be learned from the arrest of the [...]
Fellow New York transplant and Florida blogger Linda is developing an plan for trying to halt comment and trackback spam on blog sites. She’s calling it Operation Return Fire and she expects to have some action ready for April. If you’ve had the typical blog spam problems that we’ve all experienced, you should hit the [...]
Ken Sain uses the upcoming birthday of his favorite author, Edward Abbey, as his theme for this week’s Carnival. My contribution is in the sports category, introduced by a great Abbey baseball quote. Go visit Ken’s site for the rest.
The Raving Athiest is hosting the Carnival of the Vanities this week. I’m representing the Roman Catholic contingent among the rest of the heathens, so go enjoy.
Last week, I started a comment here discussing (for the millionth time) an article about a woman who shut down her computer for good because of the viruses, spam, popups and spyware. Naturally, I was going to go on one of my anti-Windows, pro-Linux/Firefox/Open Source rants, but I put the piece aside for something else. [...]
Today is special for me for two reasons. On Friday, January 12, 1973, I asked a girl named Kelly to come with me to a post-basketball game sock hop at my high school. If I recall it correctly, I didn’t exactly ask that girl to go to the dance with me. She was already on [...]
Maximus hosts the Carnival of the Vanities at Vessel of Honour this week. He’s posted the typically outstanding roundup of offerings. Visit there and enjoy.
Here’s a good one: some idiot fellow actually started an anti-La Shawn Barber blog. Ms. Barber is very proud, and rightfully so. For a moment, I couldn’t understand why anyone would go to all the effort to anti-blog La Shawn, who’s one of the nicest people in the blog community. She’s certainly firm in her [...]
Something interesting I’ve noticed since I switched from Movable Type to WordPress. My hosting service keeps error logs on my domains, and I can access a list of recent ones from their site management web page. In recent days, I’ve noticed a flood of error requests for the comment script and random entry pages on [...]
This is news that will spread around fast. The developers at Six Apart have announced a patch for Movable Type that will help stop the recent growth in comment spam on their blog software. Doesn’t it figure? The day after I switch, they announce this fix. In defense of Movable Type, i didn’t switch because [...]
As you can now see, I’ve moved from Moveable Type to WordPress, and the import of the old entries and comments appears to have gone perfectly. I’ll be tweaking things here for the next few days, especially in regards to commenting and preventing spam and the like. The change wasn’t so much a desire to [...]
Yesterday, I mentioned that Val Prieto’s interview on the Ché clothing appeard in the local Miami press. I demanded to see the hard copy edition so we could see his picture with the anti-Ché shirt. Val has now obliged.
Zed, Jan, Sam and Damon are all back to work. As is Chris Muir, who has brought Day By Day back from hiatus. The web site has been updated with some very slick graphics, and today’s re-inaugural cartoon is about our pal, Dan Rather. Welcome back, Chris, you were missed!
Eh, what the hell… Today is the last day you can nominate a weblog in the 2004 Weblog Awards, which is sponsored annually by the fellas over at Wizbang. Since I’m not egotistical enough to nominiate myself for any of the categories, I’ll leave that up to one of the mutitudes of readers who might [...]