If you follow this blog in your Google News reader, please use the “follow” function (found in the right-hand sidebar). You will still get the blog in your news reader, the same as before, just under a heading entitled “blogs… Continue Reading
In 58 more posts I will have achieved three thousand posts on this blog. What I’m wondering is if my hit counter will go over 100,000 before or after that point. Between 200 to 300 hits a day are pretty… Continue Reading
This search recently came in and I viewed it on the traffic feed: Foggia, Puglia arrived from google.it on “Not A Potted Plant: June 2007” by searching for If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would… Continue Reading
I thought to comment on an American plane shooting down an Iranian drone over Iraq. But then I read the comments thread on the article. After about twelve comments, I felt a whole lot dumber than I felt when I… Continue Reading
At the end of December, I made sixteen predictions for 2009. Here’s how I’m doing so far: Prediction Status The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. I may have been too modest in this… Continue Reading
That’s right, my posting frequency has been down of late. Here’s a graphic explanation for why courtesy of E.D. Kain at League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
Looking outside the office at about 2:30 today, I saw snow coming down. Hard. Knowing that the last time we got hit with a sudden snowstorm, the County of Los Angeles’ attitude towards it was “Eh. It’ll melt eventually,” I… Continue Reading
I’m not entirely satisfied with the technical capabilities of Blogspot. Other bloggers seem to like WordPress. Still others seem to think your blog can only be taken seriously with your own domain name and I don’t even know what kind… Continue Reading
I didn’t pick books for last week’s poll that were necessarily published in 2008. I wanted to find out which book had the biggest impact on 2008. And I wanted books that have only relatively recently entered the public consciousness;… Continue Reading
I decided late last year to try and write an average of three blog posts a day for an entire year. That goal has now been accomplished. 2008 was a leap year, with 366 days. That meant my goal was… Continue Reading