No Runny Eggs

I’ve got a ticket into BlueHost to help me figure out how to get that fixed.

If you want to see the special page I set up for you, just be a Class A asshat like the dearly-departed eastriver. Just don’t go home and whine to mama when I send you there.

Bumped to the top (3:16 pm 11/30/2007) – Please refer to the General Policies page. The bottom line is this is my yard, and while I will take a fair fight, even if vulgar, between you and me, I will not take either asshattery or personal attacks on other commenters.

Sometimes, it’s a good post that gets you noticed by a good blogger; sometimes, it’s the inane. In this case, it’s the beer that got me a trackback from Blue Crab Boulevard. Read, drink, and be happy.

One sure way to get on the right sidebar is to promise a lot of rambling. That is exactly what sinistar of doubleplusundead does. Oh, and he whacked the Minnesota GOP vice-chair (see below).

Since I’m now registered at Little Green Footballs, I guess I best add them to the roll.

StatCounter, which runs the stats for me, is currently running a beta test of a more-robust counter. Among the new features is I get to see what, if anything, you click on to get out of here. Right now, I’m running that as an invisible counter because they’re recommending I keep the original code active.

So far, it seems to be working right.

My host had some unexpected problems with server maintenance. Things are back to golden now.

It seems I have been targeted by a bad bot called LiteFinder, which tries to cache every page. That eventually kills the CPU quota I have on my host’s server, which gets this place a 5-10 minute “timeout”. Seeing they don’t exactly follow the robots.txt files, and I don’t want to use IP banning because IP addresses do sometimes recycle to a legit computer, it was a cast-iron bitch to ban them. I finally did find a way to ice them through .htaccess, or at least I hope I have.

Guess I’ll find out in a while.

In case you were smart enough to avoid yesterday’s Dhimm debate in what was left of Vegas after the Uncle Jimbo Huns laid waste to Sin City last week, you may or may not know that I tried out a new piece of software from Cover It Live to live-blog it. It is a very interesting piece of work that allows the live-blog to be an interactive, non-refresh event.

First, the good:

– The creator interface is pretty much intuitive. What I like is not only are there buttons to create effects (with the standard CTRL-key combos working in the write window), but at least some standard HTML works (didn’t explore that beyond <a> and <i>)
– It works as advertised; no refreshing was required.
– For the most part, it was quick as greased lightning.
– Judging by the size of the iframe on my blog, it looks like the modern Windows standard of 800×600 resolution doesn’t require scrolling outside of the CoverItLive iframe.

Now, the not-so-good:
– There are a couple of items that are a bit daunting for the first-time user (playing audio and somewhat-limited polling chief among them)
– No edit-after-the-fact function (I’m only a fair typist)

A couple of requests:
– Allow the users to add their URL, like they do in the blog comments section.
– Allow the ability to edit “after the fact”.
– I didn’t notice an option to have the poll results display absoulte numbers rather than percentages; I’d like that.

Overall, it is a great way to live-blog.

I’ve had these two on the roll at the TownHall version of this place for a couple days; but due to laziness, I’m just getting around to adding them here. The View from the Island and TheWayWeAre may not publish daily, but when they do, they have a lot of good stuff to say.

I put The American Pundit up before the debate thread went live, but I didn’t want to stomp all over that train wreck (the debate, not the software I used, which is pretty good). The delay in making the announcement was a good call because I found I needed to fix the link to go to Brennan’s main page.

Meanwhile, I need to correct a serious oversight and get the original drunkblogger, Stephen Green the VodkaPundit, onto the roll.

Don’t be stupid like me and keep on putting off reading these two guys. Add them to your rolls and feed readers; you will not regret it.

Jim over at bRight & Early turned me onto Liberty Pundit. I should’ve done this when Sister Toldjah had him guest-blog, but I’m a wee bit dense.

In any case, hopefully you’re not as dense as me, and decide to add him to the roll. Oh, and vote for him in the TTLB Best of the Top 5001-6750 category, as well as the rest of the NRE slate.

Fred Keller has brought back Franklinheit 451. To celebrate, it’s on the roll.

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.

First, Mark McNally, the man behind Paindealer, does just that to Cleveland’s presstitutes.

Next, how can I not add a fan of Atlas Shrugged? So, please welcome Dagney’s Rant

The polls are now open. Remember, vote for these blogs once daily 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

Revisions/extensions/bump to the top (4:08 pm 11/1/2007) – The TTLB blogs are now up, so I brought this back to the top, added the NRE recommended blogs there, and will have a reminder on the sidebar shortly.

Maury Sline always believed in proper exploitation. I may not be Elwood Blues, but I know a bit about that stuff.

Most of the The finalists for the 2007 Weblog Awards are set. First, the bad news; the Bar didn’t make it in the best sports blog category. DAMMIT! Guess I’ll have to break out the PJ-Comix mojo next year.

Meanwhile, some of my favorite blogs have shown up in the finalist positions, and I’m holding out hope for a few more have shown up in the TTLB ones. Remember, one vote per computer/IP combo per day is all you’re allowed; make maximum use of it, but only if you’re going to vote for the NRE recommended blogs. So, without further adieu, I present to you the blogs that I will be voting for, and you should be voting for as well:

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 (yes, there is one I can live with) – 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

Stand by to go out and put the word on the streets.

Sometimes, it pays to check the logs. This is one of those times, as without the logs telling me where people come from, I probably wouldn’t have found Thinking Out Loud.

This one’s a special for the mayor and five aldermen not named Verhalen in Oak Creek – Menomonee Falls found a way to raise their levy only 1.3%. If they can hold the line in a massively-growing community, why can’t you?

Local, conservative, and a big football fan; yep, HeatherRadish’s place, Hasenpfeffer Incorporated is definitely a too-late addition to the roll. Now, don’t be like me and keep on putting off adding her.

Mr. Bill, the guy in the “Sign of the Day” pic (let’s run that again just because I can)…

…has a read-worthy blog called mrbillsbraindrain. Since the “auto-discover” feed links are fouling up at the moment, I tracked down an alternate address for your feed-reading pleasure. Add him.

The paint-catcher company formerly known as CNI Newspapers has begun moving its cadre of community bloggers to the close-enough-to-real-for-journalistic-work JSOnline blogging software. This already affects all 3 of those on my blogroll, as well as a new-to-the-roll one, so pay attention to the new link addresses, throw them into your feed readers (that’s right, sports fans, they have real RSS feeds), and start commenting (if you have a JSOnline Blogs account, it will work at the MyCommunityNow.com blog sites as well):

– Conservatively Speaking (new to the roll; from state Senator Mary Lazich).
– Fraley’s Tosa Takes
– The Right Side of New Berlin
– This Just In

Hey Charlie, Jeff, James and Stacy; you paying attention?

In part to save us from uncensored cheesecake, but mostly because the writing is just that good, please welcome Daily Dollop to the kudzu of blogrolls.