- One thing about having a bad memory is that you have a clear conscience. Is it possible that that’s why the Democrats have no shame?
- I remarked to Billy yesterday, about how there will be fools always in the realm of the political. Here is an example. [1]
- For the third time inside of a week, for reasons I’ve yet to fathom, I’ve seen references to the 1975 song “Feelings”. On each occasion, the song is referred to as being a creation or at least covered by Barry Manilow. So here and now, for the last time, it was NOT Barry Manilow. It was Morris Albert, [2] who was on RCA records at the time. Albert, as I gather it, lives in Italy, these days, so he must have done OK by the song financially, but he was a one hit wonder in the true sense…. even that one hit doesn’t get much airplay anymore, so I suppsoe it’;s easy to do… but to have that one hit confused with Barry Manilow… I mean, he’s OK, but, really…
- Happy Birthday to American Digest [3]
- I’ve been busy plowing through blog sites the last few days. By my own count, I have visited perhaps 800 sites in the last 24 hours. I’ve come to the conclusion that 90% of it is utter crap. There’s only about 10% of what’s out there that’s worth the time to read. Around 6% of that is comprised of political sites. Forgive me, perhaps I’m talking out of school, but after making a concerted effort to see what they’re is out there, in terms of getting ideas for web page layout I’m convinced that layout isn’t the biggest problem. I say that, despite the fact, that the majority of the web sites I see, are using straight stock Blogger CSS. (Yecch!) I’d say about 50% of the sites I ran across, were abandoned, at some point. A goodly chunk of what I saw, consisted of stuff that would be an absolutely no interest to anyone except the person’s immediate family or circle of friends, and that, of politeness. The reason I say all of this, is I keep seeing where blogs are supposed to be this massive force for good. Particularly, we’re supposed to be ‘running the country’. I have to tell you the number of sites that could even be considered to be on that list are exceedingly small. The numbers being bandied about as to the number blogs that exist, is vastly different than the number of blogs that actually make a difference.
- I went and, almost as a subset of the above article, that the impact of the web, can hardly be accurately measured, any more, when you consider the number of RSS readers out there. I have, for example, no blinking idea how many people read this site via RSS, though I have a very good record of all the vistors coming in via IE, Forefox or what have you. But How do we know how many people are actually reading what we post?
- We know that were too tied into one operating system, when we see a blue screen of death [4]on a gas pump.