davidl on January 23rd, 2009

Bit rambled earlier:

Donna writes me yesterday;

Nancy PelosiPelosi said one of her favorite moments from Inauguration Day was when Marine One lifted off the Capitol grounds, signifying former President George W. Bush’s exit from Washington. “It felt like a

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davidl on January 20th, 2009

As noted by Mark Hemingway, National Review:

Jim Moran(right) and DC Capital Hill Police officerSoon [Conngressman Jim] Moran stormed out of the building and angrily confronted the police officer looking at his wife and shouting, “Is this the one?” He then got in the officer’s face

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Eric Florack on January 17th, 2009

Editor notes: Originally posted 01/09/06


One of the biggest problems I have in my garden is keeping the squirrels out of my bird feeder. The tehnological war between us and the squirells has gone to insane levels. But, nothing we

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Ashley Dupre H/T:  Right Wing NewsJohn Hawkins, Right Wing News, has up his “The 7th Annual “20 Most Annoying Liberals Of 2008.” 

 * I quibble with John number one, but do note that his award hinges on one Patrick Appel, who I blogged

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Eric Florack on January 5th, 2009

Regular readers will be interested to know that I’ve got a post up over at Pajamas Media on the Hillary Clinton Play for Pay thing.

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Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2009

I’ve added a line at the end of each post:

Bookmark on del.icio.us

This link will only work if you have the del.icio.us plugin running on your browser… and if you’ve already got that, you’ll know what to do with

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Eric Florack on December 29th, 2008

Inside One WilshireLast night, we had a database server outage.

Early this morning, we had not one, but two web server failures. I’m unclear on how much downtime each of these failures caused, frankly.

On both occasions, the IX folks were responsive.

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davidl on December 28th, 2008

It goes without saying that if your mother had considered you a choice and not a person, you would not be posting to blogs.   Maha, Mahablog, writes:

I’m beginning to think that movement conservatism is, at base, a kind

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2008

BitsBlog system upgrade to WordPress v2.6.5 is complete.

No errors, no problems apparent.

Just a few minor bugfixes in this upgrade, and a few code changes for security at the Linux level. Since this blog runs on a Windows server,

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Eric Florack on November 25th, 2008

One of the updates I did last night, should have been simple enough… the Widget Cache code got updated by it’s author. Apparently, that update caused some strange interactions with the database. I’ve disabled it until I figure out what’s

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2008

I’ve done some housecleaning.

First, Bye Bye Memeorandum. Nice little widget you have there. It’s been a bloody YEAR since you last linked me. You link the blog on a regular basis, I’ll run your ad again. Not until.

Second

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Eric Florack on November 22nd, 2008

Couple things.

First, I’ve added some color to the blockquotes, as you’ll see. It’s a little ham-handed, and I’ll be adjusting it, but the basics are in.

Secondly, I’ve spent some time with the comment editor, and gotten MCE working.

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2008

Noted a site called typealyzer.com being used over at OTB, and on a whim, decided to try it here. Here’s the result for this blog. I guess I can live with the result.

The analysis indicates that the author of

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Eric Florack on November 11th, 2008

A couple shots out my front door after a passing storm… an unusual end-to-end rainbow. Donna caught these.

I dunno about where you are, but around here we usually only get one end of the thing or the other.  There

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You’re going to hear quite a bit from the left over ‘the death of conservatism’ over the next few weeks. But they’ve got it wrong. I say, what we’ve got is the death of compromised conservatism as espoused by George

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