MSN bloggers try to foul up censorship tool

BoingBoing, a popular Web log, on Friday reported that MSN Spaces is rejecting certain blog titles or URLs because they...

Schroedinger’s Palestinian

It seems that Yasser Arafat has finally achieved a quantum state. Something most humans can only dream of.

Jahla Savimbi wants to give me USD$75 million united state dollars

WhooHoo! I’m gonna be rich! This just came in my email today! No one better email this guy and get...

Blog needs pictures

I just realized that I have a perfectly good digital camera sitting in my briefcase, full of pictures from Australia...

Harvard man loses 3,000 weblogs

Eccentric software developer Dave Winer has removed access to 3,000 weblogs hosted by the company he founded Userland at weblogs.com, without giving any prior notice. Bloggers have been told that if they ask nicely, they may have their data back next month. Winer blamed a computer for his decision. This strange story grows stranger, however. Winer made the announcement after the fact, in a rare audio mumble: third parties had to provide their own transcriptions. The change didn't affect friends and paid subscribers, and Winer has admitted he's continuing in the hosting business - he's simply moving locations. "The DNS service provider just can't handle the number of different domains under weblogs.com," said Winer. "We had to put them all in one place, and they had to be on one of my servers. Lawrence and I moved the sites over, and when we put the sites on the machine the performance of the machine became incredibly bad." Network administrators tell us his excuse holds little water. Netcraft reports that Weblogs.com is running Windows 2000 - not many people's first choice for BIND - but even so, it should be able to cope with what is a trivial load. "Either his hardware can't cope with the traffic, or his Win2K has some kind of resource limitation issue, or he's got something mis-configured," a sysadmin told us.

New Poll!

Ok, so I’ve finally thought of a cool new poll. So get at it. Here are the results of the...

Schroedinger’s Move

I’m a little whiney today. Not getting much sleep, and I have this lousy cold (seems like everyone’s got it...

Speaking of Beats

Check out this awesome image I found on the ‘net. I didn’t know Louie Armstrong was a Beat…

More linking weirdness

Heheh. This “search engine” linked to one of my old posts about canned macaroni. Maybe I can get them into...

New Job = screwing around

Now that the job situation has stabilized somewhat, I can get back to the more important things in life, like...