No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for November 3rd, 2007

Project Valour-IT update: Match time

by @ 21:15. Filed under Miscellaneous.

I’m a bit lower on the economic scale than Michelle Malkin, but I can’t not help promote Project Valour-IT. Michelle has an open offer to donate $50 for each of the first 10 left-wing blogs that join one of the fundraising teams (Army/Navy-USCG/Air Force/Marines); I’ll kick in $5 for each of those 10. Just let Michelle know (I trust her record-keeping).

In case you haven’t noticed, those thermometers to your left are looking a little low. We need to get this thing going, so click on the team of your choice (the order as they are now are Army Green, Marine Brown, Air Force Gray and Navy Blue) and donate.

Thank you.

Revisions/extensions (2:45 am 11/4/2007) – Just so I’m clear; my donation will be divided as equally as possible among the 4 branches. Also, michellemalkin.com commenter swj719AWG also stepped up to the match plate, offering $5 per branch per left-wing blog ($20 total) for the first 10, and michellemalkin.com commenter SirKnob will kick in $5 to Team Navy/USCG per left-wing blog for the first 10.

Revisions/extensions part 2 (12:36 pm 11/4/2007) – Add trinitytim to the michellemalkin.com commenters jumping in, to the tune of $25 to Team Army for the first 10 left-wing blogs. So far, it’s been a whine-fest on the left side of the blogosphere.

Revisions/extensions part 3 (12:00 pm 11/5/2007) – This will be the last update here, as I’m moving this up to a new post (and as such, comments are closed here). The left-of-center blogs are finally starting to roll in per FbL. That was just after michellemalkin.com commenter F15mech decided to kick in $50 per left-of-center blog to Team Zoomies for the first 10. There goes my first $20; I’m looking for another 6 for the last $30.

Apple requiring credit cards for iPhones, limiting to 2 per person

by @ 19:57. Filed under Business.

(H/T – Bryan/Hot Air)

David Berlind, Executive Editor of ZDNet, figured out why Apple is requiring a credit card to purchase an iPhone. It is to track you to try and ensure you don’t try to purchase 3 of them.

Sounds like a noble goal, right? Slight problem with using credit card information for that purpose; it may well put Apple in breach of the voluntary credit-card-system security and privacy standard (PCI DSS), agreements with card issuers and credit card companies, and various privacy laws. Oops.

Between that, the iPod video-out controversy (highlighted by Pete Fanning), and the general stiffing of anybody who comes up with a better product for Apple technology than Jobs and company, there’s a reason why I haven’t bought anything from Apple in, oh, 2 decades.

Housekeeping item

by @ 13:24. Filed under The Blog.

I don’t know whether it was WP 2.3 or 2.3.1 that broke e-mail notification to me for new comments and registrations, but I’ve now got that straightened out with a (still slightly-buggy) plugin called WP Mail SMTP. I had to add my admin e-mail to the options for BlueHost’s PHP mail function to work properly, but it is now.

If you’ve legitimately registered in the last couple weeks, or you need a new password for said log-in, the mail function should also be working now.

Operation Exploitation – Day 2

by @ 4:14. Filed under Miscellaneous.

This is the Emergency Blogging System. It is not a test; tests ask you questions.

The polls are open through the 8th. Remember, vote for these blogs once every 24 hours per computer or IP address:

Funniest blog – DUmmie FUnnies
Best blog – Michelle Malkin
Best new blog – Jammie Wearing Fool
Best individual blogger – Flip – Suitably Flip
Best comic strip – Day by Day – Chris Muir
Best conservative blog – Sister Toldjah
Best political coverage – The Campaign Spot
Best military blog – Blackfive
Best video blog – HamNation
Video of the year – HamNation – Sopranos DC Edition
Best LGBT blog – Gay Patriot
TTLB Best of the Top 250 – My Pet Jawa (aka The Jawa Report)
TTLB Best of the Top 251-500 – Fausta
TTLB Best of the Top 501-1000 – The American Mind
TTLB Best of the Top 1751-2500 – A Blog For All
TTLB Best of the Top 2501-3500 – Boots and Sabers
TTLB Best of the Top 6751-8500 – Wigderson Library and Pub
TTLB Best of the Rest – Slublog

This has been the Emergency Blogging System. After you vote for the NRE-recommended blogs, you may resume your normal blog-reading activities.

The entity formerly known as CNI driving conservatives out?

by @ 0:22. Filed under Compassionate Lieberals, Presstitute Follies.

I admit that I’m coming in on the tail end of this, as I only have Kevin Fischer on the Franklin end of the feed reader, but there is one hell of a firestorm over the disappearance of Fred Keller’s FranklinNOW blog. It sure looks like NOW online editor Mark Maley is beginning to target the conservative end of the NOW bloggers.

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