Think of it as a mini blog. Hover your mouse over a headline, get a one or two line snide comment from me. Click on the headline to get the article. Old articles roll off the bottom. Click on the My Del.icio.us header to get the whole history of links.
This little reminder brought to as the drugs wear off and we clean up around the ole blog, like the links (Gee, no one noticed the blogroll has grown up and had kids). maybe I’ll have enough focus to fix the damn theme, steal part of Spaz’s or at least make it Black.
(UPDATED: cleaned up to make me look better in the trackbacks 
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Archipelago was one of the first blogs I ever read, and the first I ever subscribed to. It was also one of the last pieces of software I alpha tested (somewhere buried on the site is my name spelled right). Alas, it never was finished, and Daniel’s attention has drifted elsewhere (AJAX). So Archipelago is now gone, and Spoken has replaced it. Daniel put a notification in his RSS, and I followed to the new blog. Not everyone ties things together so smoothly: his new blog is a new subdomain of his domain (spoken.phrasewise.com vs. the old archipelago.phrasewise.com), his RSS contained notification, etc etc.
Most RSS feeds just go blank. Sometimes the site goes blank as well. I’ve just spent a day or so trying to clear out all the deadwood and Link Rot in my RSS reader, and trying to find out if any of them have survived. Kudos to Daniel for a transition well done, and a big fat raspberry to the sites that left me hunting.
So this came in one of my mailing lists, and i cracked up laughing. Seems the $5 marijuana cleaner in all the cigar stores in town is actually a $14 garlic mincer. Damn and all these years I thought it was just the brainchild some clever hophead.
In February, astronauts aboard the ISS (the cut down low rent double wide orbiting trailer that makes humans the laughing stock of the galaxy) will toss a Russian space suit overboard. Instead of making the usual good riddance to bad trash joke, or bitch about them creating yet another traffic hazard in orbit, I gotta hand it to them. Anyone with a police scanner or a ham radio will be able to tune in to the satellite/spacesuit. NASA seams really jazzed about this.
Published by ffej January 29, 2006
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What a difference 4 days make. I’ve titrated (the nurse and doctor’s term not mine: i’d call it weaned) myself off the cocktail that’s been (mostly) keeping me from killing and eating my hosts (who are most gracious and forgiving of the occasional night spent listening to me scream at the top of my lungs). As previously posted, pain masks other pain. Well, antispasmodics, muscle relaxants, Prostaglandin inhibitors and CNS depressants mask pain too (well, DUH!). Whoopee. So now I have the previous pains, and various new pains in various places coupled with constant nicotine craving, and this strange urge to take up my sword and or axe and start laying about…
We are not a happy camper. But since we are making more sense then we have been making for the last week, and dropping fewer items of value, and not calling Tucker the dog Smoky, our hosts wish us to do more things, like stagger around a restaurant supply store bigger then the old Soldiers Field. Just the thing for a broken foot…BUT there was yummy homemade pizza and chocolate sauerkraut cake as reward.
Ms. Meredith, onetime CTR.com suicide prevention specialist and brewer of the best ginger tea in East Ukie Village, has gotten herself in the news again. This time it’s her oral history project of Missouri River denizens, and a musical based on the stories. Hey Meredith, how about some podcasts?
Yo, D. S. C, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
The story so far: the Feds (you know, those wiretaping wizbangs who never caught the anthrax terrorist(s), or Bin Ladin) want a week’s worth of records from Google, to help them defend an anti porn bill that has already been slapped down. The Feds (you know, those guys who are bugging Vegans without warrents) have already went to Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft and gotten the info they wanted–again, without a subpoena. This time the Feds aren’t asking for personal information to be attached to the search results they want. Who knows what the other search providers gave them. Or what they’ll want next week.
Google’s attempt to fend off the government’s request for millions of search terms will move to a federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Feb. 27.
U.S. District Judge James Ware on Thursday set the date for the highly anticipated hearing, which is expected to determine whether the U.S. Justice Department will prevail in its fight to force Google to help it defend an anti-pornography law this fall.
Although the Justice Department also demanded that Yahoo, Microsoft and America Online hand over similar records, Google was the only recipient that chose to fight the subpoena in court. After the spat became public last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said: “This is important for the Department of Justice and we will pursue this matter.”
Published by ffej January 25, 2006
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In conversation I mentioned falling down the stairs yesterday.
Turns out it was a week ago this past midnight. Normaly I’d make a comment about better living through chemistry, but this isn’t living.
Gonzales getting the Ben Franklin treatment by some Georgetown law students. Almost makes me proud to an Amerikan again.
