I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on “Media, Communication and Community: Private and Public Interests in Rebuilding New Orleans” this Wednesday night. It’s sponsored…
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I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on “Media, Communication and Community: Private and Public Interests in Rebuilding New Orleans” this Wednesday night. It’s sponsored…
I see Slashdot is celebrating its tenth anniversary. That gave me pause to reflect on an artifact from my life ten years ago, which for…
Somehow when I wasn’t looking, this blog made it to the rank of Crawly Amphibian in TTLB Ecosystem. Thanks for all the links, folks. I’m…
Funny, I started this weblog with the notion of recording a true journal of my real life. But as I’ve gained a readership and some…
After a week of delays and two whole days wasted on tech support calls, I was finally online. I was ready to write a damning invective criticizing Apple and an encomium praising the Computer Shoppe. I pointed my browser to my blog, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a notice:
Your account has been suspended. Contact billing/support.
What? How could this be? Did we forget to pay the bill? I called my webhost immediately and learned that our account had been suspended because of a “massive amount” of activity on b.rox.com.
It appears that b.rox was under attack by spambots.
Without getting excessively technical, I’ll try to explain this in terms my grandma Mildred (may she rest in peace) could have understood, insofar as I even understand it myself.
A follow-up article in today’s Inside Out in the Times-Pic:
RENOVATORS FIND MADNESS DESPITE METHOD
NOTE: Bart Everson and Christy Paxson find that tough decisions are unavoidable as they repair the basement of their North Salcedo Street bungalow.
Note: This post contained a form allowing people to subscribe via e-mail. I’ve since stopped using the plugin, subscribe2, which enabled this functionality, but people…
New Orleans’ own Andrea Garland has joined Cindy Sheehan out at Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas — and she’s blogging on location. Y’all have heard…
I’ve been wondering how many people read any given post on this blog. (My web stats say this site averages between 200 and 300 visits…
The university where I work is located on the edge of a neighborhood called Gert Town. Back when I lived Uptown, I used to ride…
Wow. Mark Pilgrim seems to be giving up the blogging life. The final terse post came yesterday, and today his Atom feed returns a 410…
I set up a blog for MF. (She had tried using Blogger’s free hosting service, at my suggestion, but discovered that it’s blocked by the…
Panel
Published by Editor B on Tuesday, 18 September 2007I participated today in a panel discussion at Loyola, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. Kind of funny, given that I am not a…