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Travel, a delayed test and, of course, books

So I arrived back at UMass yesterday her “new student orientation” that began last night and runs through tomorrow. It gives rise to a couple opportunities, one of which hasn’t come to fruitioin yet but one certainly did.

I had been hoping to try and post to the blog via a WordPress app for my […]

Midweek Bloggus Interruptus

Blogging, including both the regular Midweek Music Moment and a book review, are on hold for another day or so. Youngest daughter graduated high school Sunday evening, flew to Massachusetts Monday, toured one of her two final college choices Tuesday, then drove to Vermont so we can tour finalist two this morning. Thus, no blogging […]

Does the FTC really want to regulate my blog?

I do a lot of book reviews, both here and for Blogcritics. I get some of the books free, whether from the publisher, author or a publicist. Evidently, that now may subject me to regulation by the Federal Trade Commission.

The FTC is considering changes in federal regulations regarding the “use of endorsements and testimonials […]

We interrupt (some) of this blog

Wtih both the backend and the frontend of the blog acting hinky (a technical term) most of the week, last night I couldn’t access either or even the server it is hosted on. Thus, I spent a good chunk of the evening on the telephone with and e-mailing customer service people. Long story short, there […]

Idiot’s note to feed subscribers

Some recent monkeying around may have impacted those who subscribe to the blog via feed readers or RSS. You may need to resubscribe due to operator error on this end.

Of course, if the way you read the blog is via RSS and I screwed up your subscribed feed, then you’re probably not going to […]