My blog at sodsbrood.com has been resurrected from the dead, twice no less. After some more prodding of administrators via the site5 forums, my site was finally unlocked last night around eight o'clock. Within ten minutes, I had promptly, but accidentally, deleted the entire directory where my blog is stored, blog and all.
That deletion has to rank up there with the most stupid things a man
A Pilgrim's Digression
Essays on politics and culture
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Monday, September 26, 2005
Where have all the blog posts gone?
On Friday, exactly seven days after my blog went dark, I finally had an email from technical support, from the same person who emailed originally to say the directory where my blog lives was being locked. Short and sweet, the email said that the directory could be unlocked if I could tell them what applications and scripts I was running. That I did. A profound silence ensued, and the blog
Friday, September 23, 2005
Times Select
Among other items I would have blogged about this week, if my stream of patter hadn't been interrupted with technical problems, was the introduction of the New York Times "Times Select." Otherwise known as yet another attempt by newspapers to start charging for what they have been giving us for free for nearly ten years.
I was slightly annoyed on Wednesday to discover that I could not read
I was slightly annoyed on Wednesday to discover that I could not read
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Technical Difficulties
The experiment at sodsbrood may be over, at least for me, anyway. I have been locked out of my blog since last Friday, and as another Friday is fast approaching, I have to consider that I may never post at sodsbrood again.
My technical difficulties began sometime late in the afternoon on Friday the sixteenth. My friend, an administrator of sodsbrood, sent me an email he had received from the
My technical difficulties began sometime late in the afternoon on Friday the sixteenth. My friend, an administrator of sodsbrood, sent me an email he had received from the
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Work in transition
This may be my last post here at my blogger site. I recently joined a group of friends, acquaintances, and strangers in founding a communal website at sodsbrood.com. It is founded in the spirit of other literary and social communes through history, from the seventeenth century to the modern era. An interest of mine in Graduate school was the radical Christian and political reform movements of
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Selling the candidate
In the spirit of digression and disjuncture which seems to characterize my posts today, I wish to comment on some of the ads I've seen in these final days of the campaign. Last week I saw one for Kerry that I thought absolutely brilliant. It was not an ad designed by the Kerry campaign; it was designed by Rob Reiner for MoveOn, and it is perhaps the best ad this season. You can download the
Winding down: 10 days to go
Despite the frenzy that the candidates themselves feel in the final days of an election, these last two weeks always seem to me to be the quietest. Everyone I meet has already made up their mind and are for the most part tuning out the news and election coverage. Much of the campaigning, and almost all of the reporting, has turned negative anyway, as it aways does this time in the season.
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