The old blogspot blog spot
Yesterday this blog went down briefly. I hope none of you had too much trouble getting here. If it happens more often, I will be needing to up my bandwidth. But for now it’s not been all that much of … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Blogging and bloggers
If you wish, you can send condolences…
…to blogger Gerard Vanderleun on the loss of his beloved and wonderful mother, aged 104 and a half. Please see this. RIP.
Continue reading →Politics: do you care?
I used to care much less about politics. I think I know why that was. I was younger and there was a lot more activity in my life (school, motherhood, taking care of a house, career stuff, all that jazz). … Continue reading →
Whatever amount of time I may think it will take to write a certain blog post…
…I probably should just triple it and I’ll be closer to the mark. To take one example, here’s the post I wrote earlier today. It was based on a little article that caught my eye in the Guardian, about an … Continue reading →
On being a blogger
Someone once asked me about what I actually do as a blogger, and I replied airily, “Oh, I just write a term paper a day.” It was meant to be a joke, but the joke wasn’t so very far from … Continue reading →
Again: rules of the blog
Boy, I go away for a while and the comments get taken over by squabbling. I don’t mind a small amount of it, but no more than that. So, to repeat a post I wrote some years ago on the … Continue reading →
Drudge
I find Drudge very depressing today. It’s probably due to the prominent place given to the Democrats being sworn into power in the House, and the sense of deja vu combined with a sinking feeling that I’ve often had in … Continue reading →
The MSM, the blogosphere, and me
Blogging used to be the hot new thing. That was back in the dark ages of the Bush administration. I’m not sure when I first discovered blogs, but it was probably around 2002, about two years after I had transitioned … Continue reading →
Paradise lost
The name of the northern California Sierra foothill town of Paradise is evocative. Paradise! A place you might want to go. A place you might even want to live. But reports are that the town of 27,000 is no more, … Continue reading →
Problem with comment editing?
At the moment, some readers are reporting a problem with comment editing. They can comment, but can’t edit afterwards. I don’t know if it’s the case for everyone, or just a few. I tried reinstalling and reactivating the edit plug-in, … Continue reading →
Biting off more than I can chew
I tend to have an unofficial and unplanned schedule for blogging. I don’t always follow it, but usually I do most of my posting some time in the early-to-mid-afternoon. There are early-morning exceptions, of course, as well as late-night ones. … Continue reading →
Overactive spam filter?
Lately my spam filter seems to have occasionally been classifying perfectly normal comments from regular commenters as spam, for no apparent reason. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s been happening slightly more than usual. I try to catch it, but … Continue reading →