I wondered if HM was getting DoS'ed again when I couldn't get to either of your sites today. It felt strange seeing a test post at the same time I was working to get a system working right here.

BTW, having dealt with more than one colo/hosting firm, I must say that Hosting Matters sounds like a good bunch.

Wow. A Presidential Campaign blog that appears to have its own Photoshop Phriday. Geek Power in action!

Ahhh, in reference to the Deanblog thingy in your right-hand column thingy, says the not-entirely-ready-for-primetime comment thingy guy.

Amazing how robust that "context" environment variable is.

I'm still loving the 200 comments feature. However, using it has made me notice that I can't tell the difference between the dark blue specified for "link" and the dark blue specified for "visited".

I don't know if it's just me or my monitor. But I thought I'd mention it, in case you sometime get in the mood to play with colors.

Yeah, I noticed that myself recently, when I was briefly using a monitor with a really dark gamma. Which just goes to prove what they say about web development: don't just test your stuff on your own high-end software and fancy equipment.

I'll play around with it when I have a moment.

Awful Plastic Surgery of the Stars gave me a few minutes of mean-spirited pleasure. The rich look different!

The Orbital Mind Control Lasers FAQ would be a lot funnier if the answer to every question was There is no such thing as an Orbital Mind Control Laser.

If it were me, I would have said "Free Blog Free" rather than "Blog Live Blog".

But, as the Scots say, if everyone were the same, there wouldn't be enough oatmeal.

Alternate history SF ain't SF - it's clearly fantasy.

Worse, it’s Christian apocalyptic fiction. Cf. Revelations.

This Amazon reader comment (on the "Bush Boom" book) almost got my new keyboard filled with Diet Dr. Pepper:

May I also recommend the pithy and prophetic "Dow 36,000" and "The Long Boom", not to mention the coming volume "How Bush Turned the Moon into Free Pie"

How did Groening et al. determine that it really was Thomas Pynchon? By examining two forms of photo ID?

Warning! The Orbital Mind Control Laser page will try to load the "Gator" advertising spybot onto your system. A fishy invisible browser window also popped up when I loaded that page.

So. Watch it.

The utter reclusive mysteriousness of Thomas Pynchon is, I gather, somewhat overrated. His wife is a well-known literary agent, and he's socially known to quite a few people who can authoritatively vouch for him.

In other words, we're not talking B. Traven or even J. D. Salinger; just a guy who doesn't want to be a celebrated face, and who appears to have the personal charm or oomps to convince a lot of people to help him out in that regard. Good for him!

Er. That link in your sidelights about the whitehouse site blocking searches on Iraq goes to a page explaining that the site has been suspended on account of exceeding bandwith. That sentence sounds incoherent, but I'm still very jetlagged. I bet you can figure it out.

MKK

Sorry about that. Fortunately, the site has been mirrored, and I've just switched my link to the mirror. Try again.