Flooding in Iowa

Floodwaters are raging through the state of Iowa, major roads are closing, cities are being destroyed, politics is at a standstill while people’s lives are being diverted by lost homes, or volunteering to help others.

As the crisis continues, The

The it which PIckler is full of is the brown stuff produced by a cow with diarrhea, or in Pickler’s case the stuff the which flows from her PC which she attempts to pawn off as if it were reporting,

James Joyner, this morning:

Aaron Brazell is doing some research on the evolution of blogging in recent years and has asked for my input. I started OTB in January 2003 and have seen a lot of change. I should note

… While looking up something else…

If it’s on broadcast radio, it’s likely available here.. a place called Mike’s Radio World

The experiment with those added functions from last weekend has changed.
Link Summary, BitsBlog Tags, and Related posts will still be shown on individual postings, but not on the index page. This will save us some bandwidth, and help with

Added a couple BitsBlog functions tonight.

I don’t know if I’ll keep them, but let’s try them and see.

The first one is “BitsBlog Tags”. These are collections of posts that the system thinks are related to the current topic.

Some of you may have noted elements of the blog that were missing around 7pm to 730pm eastern tonight.

I had a software update blow up on me, and I had to revert to tape. We never went down outright,

The Telegraph(UK) spent the week doling out their supposed list of the top fifty American political pundits.  The Telegraph‘s list is hardly worth mocking and definitely not worth linking.   Here is the take from JammieWearingFool

Take it

Upgraded to 2.51 tonight. Auto-upgrade still isn’t ready for prime time, but long as you know it’s gonna crash, it does OK. It actually got 90% done, this time, so the last auto-upgrade patch does work a bit better.

Played

The assualt on freedom continues in Canada.   Ezra Levant reports that Mark Steyn has come to aid of his fellow victims of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, :

Mark has generously offered to support our legal defence through the sales

Decided today to try to start making some changes to the colors… not so much re-arranging the room as painting it, just to freshen things up a bit. I was going for a brighter, sunnier feel. Maybe it’s springtime seeping

I have to tell you, folks, after a few days of playing with themes for WordPress, I’m disappointed.

As developed, the theme we’re using here… Originally called “Boxy But Gold” (Details and contact links in the page footer) needed a

Been working on cleaning up a lot of loose ends in the background, today.
One thing that I’ve been meaning to fix is the problems with mobile phones, Palm pilots and whatnot, not being able to get a good view

My googling shows 642 bar & grills near Ann Arbor, Michigan.   So I find the amount of research required by E.M. to make this statement, staggering:

We noticed, quite casually, that the only place around us that actually uses Absolut

I’ve added another feed today, and it’s a biggie; It’s the news feed from Google, and from the news services it in turn subscribes to… all updated in real time. Strictly headlines at the moment, that you can click through