No Runny Eggs

As you can tell by the lack of posts lately, I haven’t done a lot of blogging. There hasn’t been all that much that has caught my eye, and the things that have were blogged half to death by the time they did. Sorry about that.

It’s not 8 pm yet, so I can’t tell you the post that Mike sent in, but The Spring City Chronicle just got itself added to the roll. Once you get your Carnival submission in, head on over.

I would be remiss if I continued to ignore Chip and Dale’s Eyes on Wisconsin. Welcome to the party, guys.

Please pick up the white courtesy phone. Thank you.

“Hello, Mr. Sykes. This is steveegg of No Runny Eggs. I noticed you updated your blogroll with a couple of worthy entries and fixed the link to my humble blog to reflect my new home. However, I seem to be missing a certain blog that goes by the name Spotted Horse. I know he dropped out of sight for a couple months, but he’s back with a vengeance and the Glorious Guards Shock Army.

“I seem to recall Chris doing a lot of blegging to get on your roll the first time, and I fear he’ll do something VERY rash if he has to go through that again. So, please, add him back to the roll. Thank you.”

Revisions/extensions (6:37 am 3/2) – “Hello again, Charlie. Thank you for putting Spotted Horse and Leaning Blue back on the roll. Now the Glorious Guards Shock Army can continue its drive for the Mississippi.”

I REALLY like WordPress’ links management system, especially the “randomize” one. It makes unwieldy blogrolls so much more fun :-)

Seriously, please welcome Random10 and Clint of Milwaukee-ID10T to the roll.

I can’t get Democracy to play nice.

I tried several different things to try to get Democracy, my polling plug-in, working properly.   It fouled up the entire blog for a few hours, but I THINK I have things under control now.

Thanks for telling me about Democracy, Patrick.   It  seems to be working quite nicely  as a replacement for PollHost.com for my polls.

Since the stats got reset, I may as well report what the PollHost.com version stats were –

• 4 votes for “It fragging rocks!”
• 1 vote for “It’s better than the old place.”
• 0 votes for “I hate it.”
• 7 votes for “I couldn’t care less.”

Unless you’ve been in a cave the last two days, you know that BlogSpot/Blogger(/Google) has had a very bad couple of days.   Between that and my host, Yahoo Small Business, offering a few incentives to make me blog at a more-or-less dormant domain I had just sitting out there (namely, private domain information and one-button WordPress/Movable Type setup), I took the plunge away from BlogSpot.

 For those of you that want to do the same, WordPress does offer a free service (WordPress.com), and they do make it more-or-less easy to move both your posts and Blogger comments over to WordPress (whether it’s the free one at WordPress.com or the host-your-own, full-featured one at WordPress.org).   For those with  the paid version of HaloScan, you can import  your old  comments too – check here for directions before starting importing your BlogSpot blog.   A couple words of caution:

1. If you have links back to previous Blogger posts, you’ll want to convert them to links to WordPress posts after the conversion.
2. If you had pics on Blogger itself (the pic says it’s from, say, photo1.blogger.com), you’ll need to move the pic to a new server and change the link and source; some of that small print on the TOS is that pics hosted by blogger.com are only visible from blogger.com.
3. If (really, when) the import feature stalls out (it’ll go blank, and you’ll no longer get “new” posts at your blog), do NOT refresh the page it was running on, do NOT close it, and do NOT use the “reset” link.   Instead, open up a new browser window and rerun the import; that SHOULD get things restarted where they froze up without the possibility of repeated posts.

Well, let’s see if we can break this thing :-)

For those that don’t remember it, it asked:

Should Jessica reinstate the McBride’s Media Matters Mini-Poll?

1. Yes, but not with Bravenet.
2. Yes, I didn’t mind the ads blocking her site from time to time.
3. No, I didn’t like it anyway.

The final numbers were 7 for choice 1, 0 for choice 2, and 4 for choice 3.   Guess the people have spoken.

With BlogSpot down for the count, time to hit the lifeboat.   Hmm, this seems a bit fancier than the old ship :-)

Spotted Horse lives!!!! Time to update the ‘roll.

Still suffering through what I picked up over the weekend. That’s just left me too weak to comment much on the last 2 days’ worth of news. Hopefully I’ll get back in the swing of things momentarily; there’s a few items that bear commenting on.

I lost count, but Deb Jordahl certainly deserves to have Above the Belt added, especially after whacking Brian Blanchard and the Assembly Democratic Caucus.

You don’t want what I picked up. I have chills and diarreah, and I am completely drained.