Inspired by the often-amusing efforts at Argephontes, I think I’ll start doing a Weekly Round-Up of some of the journals/blogs I read near-daily. If nothing else, it’ll give me something to write about on a slow news (Fri)day every week. Even better, I might learn to write more gooder words because I’ll have something to write about.
Or something like that. I’m really zonked out today, please bear with.
There are worse ways to find out the current weather situation:
Clicking the image takes you to weatherpixie.com, where you can generate your own Weather Pixie. Enjoy.
I should find a sensible way to work some of these geeky clickable things into the site without creating too much clutter. Maybe a dedicated “toys” page is the answer. If you have suggestions, I’m open.
If you don’t host your own website, perhaps you don’t know the strange fun to be had perusing the list of search queries that bring visitors to your pages. I get a lot of “cowboy bebop mp3” searches as well as “transparent concrete” queries (no, I don’t know why). The “pink hello kitty laptop” craze drew at least one visitor, as did the “oral sex donations” article.
A new one appeared recently: “gundam wing circle jerk”.
Everyone repeat after me, “Eeeewwwwwwww!” I’ll never look at Quatre the same way again…
Ever wanted to put words into Martha Stewart’s mouth? Here’s your chance, courtesy of the ever-lovin’ Brunching Shuttlecocks. My entry, of course, is kinda lame:
Thanks to Cosmic Central for finding this toy. You know, if I were just a bit more clever I could probably put together my own captioning toy. Hmm.
Brunching – Talking Martha
So I come in this morning, fire up Mozilla and go to my website to see… this. (Warning, kinda big image.)
Turns out that the little “bs” Blogsnob link button was replaced with… this. (Warning, sorta big image.)
According to the BlogSnob website, “If you’ve noticed a slowdown in your page load or anything abnormal, please bear with us… Someone edited the adtemplates.
“There is no security problem. don’t worry.”
What, me worry? I’m just having fun showing off screenshots of weird CSS rendering! Muahahaha!
(Until BlogSnob gets this fixed, I’m pulling the ad. Cute screenshots are one thing, but that’s a helluva waste of bandwidth for anyone visting my newly-resurrected website.)
So, because I can’t be bothered to RT(entire)FM, email to my account has (still) been bouncing back. Until now.
You see, if you don’t tell Qmail that email to a particular domain belongs on that server, then Qmail will cheerfully and politely throw it back with an explanation of why. (Sure, it would accept email for the machine, but not for the entire domain.)
Duh on me. I think I’ve got it fixed now.
Now I need to figure out how to let my sister know how to get at her email. Given the events of the last three weeks, I bet she’s just a little bit miffed with me by now. Sorry, sis! =)
So much for that smooth transition I envisioned way back when this debacle began, eh?
