a dog-eared town

So, I use Akismet for my spam. It is good. I highly recommend it if you have a website or blog to use it. Today I hit a dubious milestone.

Yes Akismet has caught 1500 spam messages. While it’s a pain to clean out the spam folder and I really don’t get as much as the […]

So there is yet another story that a major media property got wrong.
A Los Angeles Times story about a brutal 1994 attack on rap superstar Tupac Shakur was partially based on documents that appear to have been fabricated, the reporter and editor responsible for the story said Wednesday.
So the big canard that the major media […]

I’ve got to get one of these.

While I would normally mark this as a republican stupidity, there have been more than a few democrats that also try to create laws that control people. Anyway, we have a great story showing how some politicians are more interested in protecting their feelings than anything else.
Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week […]

While the busy front has ended, I’ll be making some changes to the blog. As you can see the template is a tad different from the one before. I’ll probably be changing the template and adding and deleting things.
If anything looks really good or really sucky, I’d love to know.

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Well that was a difficult two weeks.
I have a new job with a public company. That means it has to report to “Wall Street” how it did sales wise and expense wise. So at the end of the quarter, which just ended on Halloween, there are two weeks were it’s a lot of extra work […]

Take a look at the following picture.

Looks like a nice pic from Nasa, right? Wrong.
Behold the view from 117,597 feet, taken on August 11, 2007 by a camera hanging from a helium balloon launched by a group of guys in Alberta, Canada. Called the SABLE-3 (Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment #3), the balloon’s small payload […]