[NOTE: I’m bumping this up so it stays at the top for today.] Today I had a lovely experience. When I came to the blog I discovered it had been “temporarily suspended.” That word “temporarily” was all that stood between … Continue reading →
Last night while my wonderful all-volunteer tech-support army of one worked on fixing the glitch in my blog, I sweated it out. I’d been there before. Periodically, during the six years I’ve written this blog, something will go wrong that … Continue reading →
[UPDATE 5/31/11 at 11:50 PM: The glitch has been corrected, so the problem should have disappeared. It took quite a bit of doing!] [NOTE: This post has been bumped up for greater visibility. New posts can be found below.] I … Continue reading →
Spambot who clearly has mistaken me for someone else: Keep posting dude. nice. Therefore do not make any tattoo on your body with any tattoo pictures, you must choose the tattoo that suits you and your body. I’ll take it … Continue reading →
Spambot as thoughtful critic (the following appeared on a thread about searching for Chinese sesame donuts): The very core of your writing whilst appearing agreeable originally, did not work well with me after some time. Someplace throughout the paragraphs you … Continue reading →
Richard Fernandez reflects on the announcement by blogger Marc Danziger (former “Armed Liberal,” in recent years at Winds of Change, and friend of mine from some years back) that Danziger is taking a break from blogging. Fernandez writes: Once, at … Continue reading →
Here’s some spambot wit: This site is so cool even ice cubes would be jealous. Don’t mean to be pedantic, but I think the bot actually means “envious.” Those two words are all-too-often mixed up, a pet peeve of mine. … Continue reading →
This news is hardly surprising: bloggers for HuffPo who didn’t share in the AOL acquisition monies are suing both Arianna Huffington and AOL in a class action suit. As I noted when the news of the sale of HuffPo first … Continue reading →
My pledge drive is now officially over. So you’ll see no more goadings here for a while (that doesn’t mean, of course, that you can’t send a little contribution my way any old time…) I want to thank every single … Continue reading →
Bot with a special sort of truth: The magnonomous truth about this article is, that it spoke to me greatly.
Continue reading →It’s that time again. Don’t feel too bad if you decide not to click on that Paypal “donate” button (hint hint: it’s on the right sidebar, above the Amazon widget, which is also a handy and helpful gadget to use). … Continue reading →
Hyperbolic bot: Dam this Blog is AWESOME. If you wrote this any better i would think you were a super human. As opposed to superhuman.
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