Eric Florack on October 20th, 2007

Free Speech:

Sadly, Mr. Chuck Adkins of Lincoln Park, Michigan has now taken his rude behavior a step too far. Tonight I posted a respectful comment (no profanity or anything) to his blog asking him to explain to me

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Eric Florack on October 16th, 2007

Adrian Kingsly Hughes over at ZDnet hits very close to where I live, since I’m a end user support type:

 On Friday I posted briefly about yet another potential problem with Windows Update (my ZDNet blogging colleague Mary Jo Foley

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Eric Florack on October 12th, 2007

OK, now that I’ve got your attention, see that little  button down the right side, that says “Vote For me”?

Hit the button and follow your nose.

Thanks.

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Eric Florack on October 4th, 2007

Tom Maguire at Just one Minute:

Patrick Ruffini identified an intriguing puzzle that leads Sitemeter to inflate traffic statistics for high-traffic sites.

Briefly, Sitemeter claims that each unique visiting IP address is tracked for half an hour.  But what

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davidl on October 1st, 2007

John Hawkins, Right Wing News, has his 2007 editon of   Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Favorite People On The Right up.   Here’s John.

Addendum (Bit)

Others taking part in the poll:

Likelihood of Success Townhall (Amanda), Bluey Blog, Conservative

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davidl on September 28th, 2007

In true Washington Post style, Bitsblog has been banned in Burma.   Michelle Malkin has the story.

As I noted the other day, Burmese bloggers have been crucial whistleblowers and eyewitnesses to history-supplying the world with round-the-clock coverage and photos

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Eric Florack on September 28th, 2007

I’ve removed the “Related Links” plugin which put links it thought were related to the posts at the bottom of posts in individual mode. I’ve removed it because the worth of the links it coughed up was questionable at least.

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

Because the RSS is fouled up for some reason, I went looking for other RSS possibilities.

I finally stumbled across FeedBurner.

Actually, I had it running on the old site, and putting it up for the new one, kind of

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Eric Florack on September 14th, 2007

OK,gang, here’s the lowdown.

Last week, we had  an attack on the core SQL database that runs BitsBlog. The most obvious result of that attack was four instances of an HTML FRAME callout showing up showing up on the header

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Eric Florack on September 14th, 2007

Well, after a day or so more downtime, and a year or so off my life, we’re back online again.

Turns out a YOUTUBE plugin we were trying made the site vulnerable to a database attack. Yes, the same so

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Eric Florack on September 9th, 2007

We’ve had a spot of bother with the website, here at BitsBlog.

Starting sometime on Friday night, we started getting attacked from somewhere in Argentina.  I’m not quite sure of all that was going on, but nobody, including DavldL and

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Eric Florack on September 7th, 2007

On waking up, just about the first thing that happened was a power spike… which was a complete power loss in many areas… which wiped out the cable TV Telephone and Internet connections for about 38000 folks around here. Made

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davidl on September 7th, 2007

A Bitsblog PSA, Mary Katherine Ham, Townhall, has a multipart consersation with Bradley Smith, formerly of the FEC.   It says something, not altogether nice, aboiut the state of our republic, when politicians who write, vote and pss laws with the

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Eric Florack on August 30th, 2007

As promised, I spent some time cleaning out the link list tonight, otherwise known as the Blogroll.

In going through them I find myself surprised that the number of people who am I now realize it me up for links,

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Eric Florack on August 29th, 2007

I made a change in the way WordPress handles text formats last night. at that time, everything looked OK.  After coming home from work this afternoon I noticed a number of things I was dissatisfied with. I’ve changed it back. 

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