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Category Archives: General

A Note to the Blog spammers

Filed under: General— arlen@ 9:56 am

People, I’m flattered you think so much of my blog. Really. I am. The superlatives you’ve used in your attempts to get past the wall here sometimes make me blush. But at the same time, I know you don’t mean them. You make it blatantly obvious that what you’re trying to do is pay me […]

Sony/BMG is a spammer

Filed under: General— arlen@ 10:47 am

Just a small announcement. There is currently a lot of comment spam coming out of a Random House IP number, part of the Sony/BMG group, trying to sell music. They have ignored my requests to do something to stop it. I, personally, am therefore boycotting Sony/BMG music products.

Cheney

Filed under: General,Politics— arlen@ 9:14 am

OK, I’ll have to weigh in on the Cheney hunting fiasco. Let’s have some real perspective here. I can’t be the only one who thinks the reason this is such a major story is because the White House Press Corps has a knot in their collective shorts because the story was given first to a […]

River? No, Thanks.

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 8:53 am

Dave Winer is plugging the “River of News” idea. Having been a Radio user and having set up Drupal’s feeds, I’ve seen that one, and I’ll pass. I remember back in my Radio days seeing an item I wanted to read a little later, when I had time, roll away down the page and I’d […]

Oh, Joy

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 12:04 pm

Upgraded mySQL to 5.x this weekend. Wasn’t paying attention when I did so, and nailed all my development databases along the way. Not to mention the new password hash making a hash of things as well. Another very good reason not to upgrade when you’re overtired. Sigh. My development disc is overcrowded. I need to […]

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