Weather Underground issued a report saying this has been the wettest new year since Missouri has started keeping track of the weather. The Meramec will hit flood stage soon, and by this weekend should be three feet over its banks in places. I am grateful we haven’t had the snow and the ice, but rain […]
Month: January 2005
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Close your trackbacks
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After a couple of test trackbacks yesterday, I knew that today most likely we would start seeing trackback spam, and so it has proved. I would suggest that people turn off trackback capability if they’re concerned about receiving spam, until safeguards are put on this other rather huge, gaping hole […]
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The extrapolation factor
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Doug points to a post by Broad at Bat who discusses a recent dinner with friends and one couple’s behavior to each other. Specifically, she focuses on the wife, Sandy’s, behavior to her husband, Mark. Later, Mark was telling us a story – nothing rude or anything, just something that happened earlier in the […]
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Taste of hell
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was at the pharmacy today and stopped by the mint and gum section to pick up some cinnamon Altoids. I like all the mint flavors, but cinnamon is my favorite. They were out of cinnamon, but did have some new flavors I hadn’t seen before, including a line of […]
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Good to see
Ed Cone shined his journalistic light on Karl Martino and Philly Future in a nice question and answer interview. Philly Future is the Philadelphia equivalent of The St. Louis Bloggers, and then some–that aggregator is a nice option. Perhaps we need a Planet St. Lous. I liked Karl’s advice for integration between alternative media, such as local weekly newspapers, and webloggers: […]