As a lifetime South Dakotan, I know winter doesn’t end until sometime in April. Still, I am so effin’ tired of cold weather that my snarkiness is increasing (plus I think my winter long luck avoiding colds, etc., has run its course). Thus, anything going on here is tinkering, including the following blogroll [...]
February 21, 2008 – 5:50 pm
The hectic nature of the last couple weeks combined with the frigid temperatures to turn my ambition to molasses. PP eliminated any doubt of that with a post last night that echoed exactly what I thought but was too lazy to research and write a post about. Simply summarized, it seems Argus Exec [...]
January 31, 2008 – 7:35 am
How time flies. I just noticed it’s been nearly a year since I’ve posted one of these. Inspired by Commander Other and a recurring search term, I figured I may as well close out the first month of the year with some of the wacky and weird search terms that bring people here:
blowingtime.info, [...]
January 28, 2008 – 7:43 am
Something that seems all too common with tech companies is the “not our fault syndrome.” If a problem develops, hardware support says blames it on your software. Software support blames it on your hardware. A service provider says lays blame with another service provider, your hardware and/or your software.
I encountered this situation this month in [...]
January 23, 2008 – 9:54 pm
It was just less than three years ago that I decided to move the focus of this blog away from politics and the like to “things that actually bring pleasure, meaning and nuance to life.” This has covered a variety of things over those three years but mostly books and reading. While it [...]
December 21, 2007 – 7:42 am
We South Dakotans tend to talk about how friendly and helpful we all are. While it sometimes may just be lip service, I learned again this week that it’s true and, moreover, that it carries over to our blogosphere.
When the lights went out here for an extended period of time, PP at South Dakota [...]
December 20, 2007 – 5:39 pm
After a 72+ hour outage here, the blog is back — I hope.
Many thanks to the South Dakota War College and S.D. Watch for letting people know this wasn’t a voluntary shut down. (A bit more on them in another forthcoming post.) The problem was that the servers used by my web host [...]
December 6, 2007 – 3:46 pm
Best way to take a break from a South Dakota Supreme Court brief that’s consuming most of your time? Perhaps a new decision by the Court that has absolutely nothing to do with your case but interest Internet denizens.
In the decision, handed down Wednesday, the Court applies case law every lawyer recalls from the [...]
December 3, 2007 – 6:41 pm
I was just more than a bit shocked today when I went to add something to a forthcoming post and discovered any post from Nov. 27 through Dec. 1 had vanished from the site. Even restoring my weekly backup did not solve the problem. Something plainly hiccuped over the weekend, apparently on my [...]
August 21, 2007 – 12:54 pm
My recent libel analysis led to linkage from the right, the left and the nonpartisan. But yesterday in the otherwhirled, I was officially labeled a “pissant provocateur.” I take Commander Other’s designation as it is meant, a compliment. Therefore, I shall adhere to the rules and bewstow the award to five other pissant [...]
I’ve been looking for something a little different for the blog for a while and think I finally found something I liked. Thus, the new look. It is still a work in progress. (Translation: I’m still trying to figure out how all the components work while not screwing them up.) Thus, [...]
I wanted to note a few additions to the blogroll over the last number of weeks and comment on one other item in it:
Directly related to the last post, there’s Three Percent, a new project at the University of Rochester “with the lofty goal of becoming a destination for readers, editors, and translators interested [...]
It seems blog-based book reviewers and so-called “lit blogs” continue to perceived as threats by print reviewers. The latest example is an essay in today’s Boston Globe Ideas section by Sven Birkerts. Titled “Lost in the Blogosphere,” it makes a couple valid points, such as the fact that reviewing is not the same [...]
It’s not like this place has been overflowing with content, but there likely will be a growing sparsity. There’s a variety of reasons. the most significant of which seem beyond my control at the time and which I may discuss in the future if I can get a handle on them.
Suffice it to say [...]
February 16, 2007 – 6:14 pm
Google keeps sending the penis searches this way but I gotta say the first one in this month’s list is my favorite so far. In addition, people searching the clue to an online crossword puzzle celebrating Black History Month have lifted this site to a #2 Google rank for the second search listed below [...]
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