Weeeell… It’s been a while since I spruced up the ol’ blogroll.  I’ve removed some abandoned blogs and generally put it back into proper order…  This was brought on by a server upgrade and a clean install of WordPress that didn’t import my old blogroll (fortunately, I saw that server change coming from a mile [...]

In the months that have passed since November of 2008, it has been suggested that the Republican Party needs to re-brand itself. That it needs to abandon its old ideas and get with the program. That failure to do so will relegate the Republicans to the status of the Whigs. That the Republican party is [...]

As January 20 approaches and we prepare to turn the reigns of power over to Barack Obama, the time has come to reflect on 8 years of rule by George W. Bush. As Dickens wrote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. How George W. Bush will be remembered will [...]

I was looking through my logs today, and what do I find, but bandwidth thieves! People on MySpace.com are hotlinking my block S!  Oh the horror.  I mean, I don’t care if they take it, the block S is owned wholly by NC State University.  But good netiquitte indicates that you should transfer it to [...]

Dear Spammers, While I appreciate that you find my little corner of the internet important enough to harass with your never ending tedium of solicitations, I feel I must inform you that you will never win here.   I will never allow my comments to be filled with spam.  I will close them first.  If [...]

In the discussion of my previous post regarding an ill considered remark about me on the Lyceum mailing list it occurred to me that I’ve never posted the rules that I play by.  This is because I’m pretty much making them up as I go along, but there are still a few things that really [...]

I haven’t posted anything interesting in a week, yet according to sitemeter, my numbers continue to climb. So, although it hasn’t been successful in the past, I’ll take suggestions for what to pontificate on in the next couple days.  Anything specific anybody wants to talk about?

I’m the number one google hit for: I was flannel when flannel wasn’t cool 

I’m the number one Google hit for “The Only Good Snake Is A Dead Snake”

Since I upgraded to WordPress 2, there have been over 1200 spam comments stopped by Akismet. I didn’t realize that I was that popular with spammers.  None of them have gotten through since I moved to WordPress. Of course, before I was using Akismet, I simply set up a blacklist and filled it full of [...]