Recently in Blogger Category

I shall not keep

|
I shall not keep you long. I have posted this entry for a Purpose. Indeed, for Three Purposes!

First of all, to tell you that I am extremely fond of the weblogging community, and that two years is too short a time to post among such excellent and admirable writers. I don't read half of you half as often as I should like; and I link less than half of you half as often as you deserve.

Secondly, to celebrate my blogday. Thank you very much for reading my little website.

Thirdly and finally, I wish to make an announcement. I regret to announce that — though, as I said, two years is far too short a time to maintain this site — this is the end. I am going. I am leaving now. Good-Bye!

Blame Canada. --------

|

Here's the most reasonable,

|
Here's the most reasonable, thoughtful commentary on alleged liberal media bias I've seen.

Happy Blogday to Me!

|
Happy Blogday to Me!

Two years ago today (scroll down), I started my first weblog over at Pitas. Later, I moved my site here and switched to Blogger, but that Pitas site was my introduction to the world of keeping a weblog. It may not have meant much to anyone else, but I've had a lot of fun doing it. By the way, I'll have a major announcement to make later today.

(By the way, congrats to Rob Bender who started blogging one day before I did.)

Maybe George Lucas is

|
Maybe George Lucas is actually listening to fans after all.

I kept meaning to

|
I kept meaning to point out the .NET ballot-stuffing story, but David Chess points out the funniest part yet:

Several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an email, the subject line of which ran: "PLEASE STOP AND VOTE FOR .NET!" We know this, because our logs include the Web address where visitors browsed from; when people click there from a Microsoft Exchange email message, Exchange helpfully gives us the subject line and username. The people who followed that link all had email addresses in the microsoft.com domain.

That's right, a questionable privacy decision in a Microsoft product helped expose a pro-Microsoft astroturfing campaign.

As a loyal TiVo

|
As a loyal TiVo user, I'm less than thrilled about the company's new deal with the devil RealNetworks. I can't think of anything Real has to offer that I want to be bothered with, and while I've never taken allegations that TiVo reports viewing habits back to the company too seriously before, Real has a vile reputation for bundling spyware into everything.

I don't think I'll

|
I don't think I'll make it home in time to catch the brief preview of Star Trek: Nemesis on Entertainment Tonight, but Patrick Stewart's maybe-hint about the plot brought something interesting to mind. Here's a trivia question for you: In what other work of science fiction did "Enterprise" and "Nemesis" feature prominently?

Will they never learn?

|
Will they never learn? Maybe the publishers of a series of E.T. computer games should visit a certain New Mexico landfill.

I watched A Cook's

|
I watched A Cook's Tour, one of the Food Network's newest shows, last night. Wow. This is some of the best food porn I've seen in months.