Category: Blogging

Visit GDay Mate. That Australian’s got a set o’ Information-systems-industry-venom sacs on him.

I’m almost surprised I haven’t seen Steve Irwin holding him by the arse on Animal Planet.

Sorry, kids, I don’t have much to post today, so I will have to send you elsewhere for your civics lessons today. I recommend:

• Ravenwood on better ideas for a constitutional amendment.
• Dean Esmay on the reason for the Electoral College.

Based on this post at A Small Victory, wherein commenter JW says:

I think the memes are ways for unknown bloggers to get their name [sic] out.

I am an unknown blogger; I need to get my name out. I need a meme!

JW also says:

You, Michele, seem to be among the creme de la creme and not need such tawdry devices.

and I am inspired! I need a meme to get my name out. What about a competition? Call it the

La Creme de la Meme

competition, wherein everyone submits a meme repeated throughout the blogosphere, and people or the judges select the best and….

Sounds like a lot of work, though. Never mind, I don’t need to get my name out if it takes effort. You guys can use it, though, as you like. Just credit JW me when you do.

Kim du Toit’s upset that his endorsement’s not on Wonkette’s site.

To help soothe du Toit’s wounded pride, I’ve added his endorsement of me and the Noggle Library to the sidebar to your left.

The Red Herring has a blog.

(Link seen on The Buzz Machine.)

Blogger’s got some RSS/Atom thing. You can find an XML summary of what I have been doing lately here.

I am expecting a lot of linking now, dammit, formerly-blue-haired guy.

Undoubtedly, the klaxons and swirling red lights down in my workplace NOC that flash each time something triggers the Echelon-strength Internet content filters in the bowels of the sys admin’s secret lair at my workplace echoed and, well, swirled today as I visited many of my favorite Web logs and “news” portals today.

Jeez, my workstation saw a bitch’s worth of teats today, guys, as each of you salivated over the Miss Jackson flesh we might better have appreciated fifteen years ago (and then there’s the drawing of Jessica Rabbit courtesy of Kim du Toit).

When I’m terminated for Internet abuse, I expect each of you to hit my tip jar to make it up.

Thank you, that is all.

I don’t know what Wonkette is, and I don’t visit the site that frequently, but adding it to the blogroll seems to innoculate you against getting blogrolled by snide simpletons.

Balloon Juice has the details.

The front page of Blogger.com offers this encouragement:

Get Your Deal  Congratulations to Wil Wheaton who recently joined the ranks of bloggers-turned-authors with a fancy three-book deal. Folks, don’t get left out, learn How To Get A Book Deal With Your Blog. It’s all good.

Wil Wheaton, anonymous blogger, makes good. It could happen to me, too!

More likely, the “it could happen to me, too” would apply to the poor template design and permalink zaniness that Blogger’s own blog demonstrates.

Neil Steinberg’s back to two columns a week in the Chicago Sun-Times. His new Wednesday column, though, is a collection of short pieces about various subjects…..

Add a couple links, put it on the Web, and it’s a blog!

Come on, Neil. You know we want ya ta.

Jared at Exultate Justi explains why the Left and the Right don’t get along anymore.

I might have said something like this were I yet a reasoning, thoughtful writer.

Pejman Yousefzadeh is a damn kid!

According to the mathematicians I consulted (as people with English and Philosophy degrees cannot be troubled with mere counting), he says Moxie is 32, and Pejman will be reaching that hallowed age in five months. Since I’m reaching it in a month and a handful of sand grains, that means I’m older than he is.

So now matter how much smarter than I am he sounds, he should respect his elders. Damn kids and their online “diaries.”

Perusing the paper this afternoon, I discovered the page 1 story in the Everyday section entitled Web Surfing the Presidential Pool“, and I skim it, finding in the section on Dennis Kucinich, a URL for a permalink from John Cole at Balloon Juice, featured proudly on the MfBJN blogroll.

Congrats, John. You’re in the medium time when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notices you.

I realize I am but a knuckle-dragging software tester, so take pity on me, oh soon-to-be-IPOed development staff at Pyra Labs Google, but I think I know what’s wrong with your permalinking here on my site.

The <$BlogItemArchiveFileName$> server-side variable is not currently including the name of my archive directory, strangely enough entitled /archives/, into the path; ergo, when a user clicks this permalink, it leads them to the archive filename and post number in my root directory, but the archive file is not in that directory. It’s in /archives/.

Please translate this into Hindi and have Uncle Ray’s friends fix the problem.

Also, if one of my dear readers wants to link directly to my post, please add the archives directory to the URL by hand. For example, if you right-click the permalink link at the bottom of the post and select “Properties,” you’ll see this URL currently:

http://stlbrianj.blogspot.com/2004_01_04_archive.html#107352521550898577

If you add the /archives/ directory to the URL, like so:

http://stlbrianj.blogspot.com/archives/2004_01_04_archive.html#107352521550898577

It will work.

Undoubtedly, status.blogger.com will acknowledge this problem once they have it solved. In a couple of weeks.

Notice this page on my “innocent” wife’s blog: cat_recipes.html.

Maybe I should take back what I said about her conmingling cat care books and cookbooks.

Put the fruitcake back in the freezer and dig into the cheesecake.

Due to popular demand (my blog, so to win the popularity contest, a candidate only needs one vote), I have created an Amazon Wish List so all three of my readers can shower me with material goods.

Remember, it’s better to give than to receive.

To make it convenient, I have added a comment link to the template. Any time I move you enough to want to comment, it’s a sign that I have done well, and should be rewarded; hence, it takes you directly to the wish list. The best way to comment. With your wallet.

Another one falls to commentitis! The Meatriarchy guy now features comments on his blog. Go tell him what you really think about him.