Eric Florack on December 16th, 2007

Interesting post over at Photopreneur, involving the world’s most famous photoshop fakes.

BBCT: LGF

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Eric Florack on December 15th, 2007

We are currently experiencing some RSS feed problems here at BitsBlog.

Since the feed has been working well for some months now, it’s my guess that we are simply overwhelming the linked with volume.  What we’re getting his timeouts at

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Eric Florack on December 13th, 2007

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Eric Florack on December 10th, 2007

I commented over the weekend about Sitemeter screwing up.
I got a nice note from the sitemeter folks, saying taht they’d had some database issues with the sm5 database…(Which this site is on) and they’d be OK shortly. It seems

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Eric Florack on December 9th, 2007

OK, this is the second day I’ve noted Sitemeter going crazy. Along about 4 or so, on both Saturday, and Sunday, I’ve noted “Today’s” hit count being at zero… where it’d been at normal levels before that.

What’s going on,

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2007

I find myself curious as to why suddenly the listings of BitsBlog on Memeorandum have dwindled to nonexistence.  A week ago, it was unusual for us not to have something showing on their home page.  As it stands now, it’s

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

Captain Ed, who clearly is getting bored, or something. Early winter doldrums?

 How does one address a letter to the dictator-for-life of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-Il? Would it be a “Dear Jong” letter?

(Slap!)

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

All of a sudden, Memeorandum isn’t crawling BitsBlog.

Not sure why.

Update: I’m breathing, again. Memeorandum has us listed.

What concerned me is I’d made a change to the search engine optimization, and I thought I’d trashed it. Guess not.

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davidl on December 4th, 2007

I’m back.   The computer got hit by a nasty virus.  Actually had to watch television and read books. 

 Speaking of returns. he’s back, and blacker than ever, from the Baltimore Sun:

Don ImusDon Imus returned to the airwaves yesterday, eight

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Eric Florack on December 2nd, 2007

Michelle is reporting on more shoddy reporting… this time from NRO…

Ugh. This is bad on many levels. W. Thomas Smith, Jr., a former Marine and milblogger who writes at National Review Online’s The Tank (and whose work in

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Eric Florack on December 1st, 2007

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It took thirteen pages of a fourteen page diatribe from Franklin Foer… most of which were him trying to save his job, but TNR has finally admitted that Beauchamp COULD have lied.

Bob Owens, of the Confederate Yankee, has

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Eric Florack on December 1st, 2007

OK, I’ve apparently cured the outstanding issues we had with the Google Sitemap plugin, and so we can now proceed to the new version of WordPress. Unsure yet when that will happen. I’ve got the upgrade process automated, but

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Eric Florack on November 24th, 2007

You might be interested in learning that I’ve done some very significant work in the area of speeding up performance on site.

Mostly, it has to do with optimization of the database that drives the site.  The database is now

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

Yes, some of the sharper among you have noticed that the big red “Drop Cap” in the first letter of each post is gone. I removed it recently. It looked good, when it worked. Trouble is, too often, it didn’t

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Eric Florack on November 18th, 2007

LOL…. This is going to go over huge in Orange County… especially this first para, from the Orange County Register, we see Mark Steyn, this morning…

I don’t believe the U.S. Constitution includes a right to abortion or gay marriage

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