I haven’t paid much attention to the TTLB Ecosystem of late because, well, basically I don’t think it works. Instead of going in to a lot of reasons why I don’t think it works, I’ll just give one example.
Today is the first time I’ve checked my status on the TTLB in quite a while and right off the bat I find that almost no one has me linked. Not that that is surprising since I rarely ask anyone to link me, but now not even the old timers who have had me linked forever are showing up. Only seven blogs other than my own have me linked. Whoa there, Nellie!. What happened? I like to think that I get better at what I do as I continue to practice and work at it, not worse.
So I go checking some things. Case in point. My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy still has me linked. MVRWC is still in the Ecosystem, but I do not get credit in the Ecosystem for that link. That, to me, is indicative of a system that does not work.
Not that I am bitchin. I’m not. I’m just sayin. As long as we are not pretending that the ecosystem actually works, tis no problem. As long as it is all for fun, tis no problem.
The funny thing is that there are so many people who spend their every waking moment and probably many non-waking moments trying to figure a way to game a system that doesn’t work and that NZ spends so much time trying to thwart those who might try to game a system that does not work.
Explain it to me another way if you see it different.
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Last Monday The Wife and I went to the Big City of Houston on a mission sanctioned by the North Pole. A dog breeder from Mexia, Texas was delivering us a fuzzy little package and we were meeting him at the downtown Spaghetti Warehouse.
While The Wife and I sat in the bar sipping red wine and reading the local rag people would come in to get their take out orders. This one cute couple came in to get their order and were sitting next to us waiting patiently, as were we. She was working diligently on some list or calendar or checkbook or something while he sat back on the stool quietly, arms folded across his chest with a sullen look on his face. She was cute anyway.
So the bar tender brings out this couple’s take-out order. She was a frumpy young women trying desperately to be trendy, if you can imagine, and turned out to be quite supercilious as well, which is often the case with such types. I know you all know this person.
As Leo Getz says in Lethal Weapon 48, “You always get [screwed] at the drive-thru.” Take-out obviously holds the same peril and accordingly the cute half of the couple makes a move to check the several bags for accuracy in take-out. The supercilious bartender comes over and says, “You’ll find everthing is there, I put the order together myself,” and then retreats to other very important duties.
Appreciative, yet somewhat dubious, the customer checks for accuracy in take-out anyway. A few minutes later the manager is chewing on the bartender’s ass for not putting an extra loaf of bread in the order.
Bwaaahhhhh!
The bartender had to bring the couple their bread and issue an apology.
I know I shouldn’t take such joy from such silly little things, but I just can’t help it.
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My blogroll was getting a bit cluttered so I trimmed it up a bit. If I haven’t read your crap in a while and you don’t have me linked, sayonara sucka.
To get back on the roll, either make your crap more interesting so I will stop by and read it from time to time, or link to one of my sites. If you are saying the same crap that a bajillion other bloggers are saying, you better link me as I will probably not ever find your crap very interesting.
If I have to register and login just to read comments… sayonara sucka!
(Note: There are a couple of exclusions to these rules, of course.)
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I might get this computer sorted out one of these days and start slinging some mud up here again. But probably I will just replace it. As the few regulars know, I can sling mud in large quantities day after day after day.
On the computer, currently I am thinking it is some kind of problem with AVG Free or with a botched update to Firefox 1.5. The exciting part of it all is that who the fuck really knows? I mean really. Who has the balls to stand up and say, “I can come in and fix you random BSoD system crashes. Guaranteed!”? Anyone?
I hear the Geek Squad does this. But, do they solve the problem, or do they just re-install and replace everything? Has one of the random BSoD events ever really been “solved” or are they simply fixed via the process of elimination? You know the process, where you buy a new video card, then if that doesn’t work, you upgrade the system BIOS, then buy some new RAM. Then after that seems to help but then really it doesn’t you begin to look into the grease used to seat the CPU into the motherboard.
By the way, I still stick to the advice at the end of the column I just linked to about the thermal grease. It is good, solid advice. It is just not guaranteed to help solve the Win XP blue screen of death crashes.
I think I will finally solve this computer by loading Win NT 4.0 sp6 on it and watch it run like the energizer bunny. Making it into my primary web server will significanly improve my HTTP performance, although it won’t help my DSL throughput problems one bit.
At least on my new computer, the BSoD crashes will be someone else’s problem for a while and I can just bitch about them.
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Once again, I am having some technical difficulties with my computer. Same bullshit as before: WinXP blue screen of death. Replacing the video card seems to have provided a fix for only a limited amountof time. About a month. Some of the symptoms are the same as before and there are some new ones. I am thinking that, like last year, some of my main RAM is faulty, which really pisses me off since this is the third batch of RAm in the past 18 months, which means I am consistently buying bad RAM or there is something in my environment causing the RAM to crap out.
What could do that? Same thing I wondered. Since these problems are starting at about the exact same time as they began last year i came up with a theory. Basically, this is the time of year when we first get the onset of cold weather. Cold air is generally dry air and static electricity is abundant in dry air. My PC is sitting on the concrete floor and I am thinking static buildup in the case may be wreaking havok. I am going to get an anti-static pad and see if that helps. I have been meaning to do that anyway and now I have impetus.
So now you know why the lack of posts. Every time I sit down to do some work, my fucking computer crashes. Kinda tends to bum one out after a while.
UPDATE - Sunday AM:
I think I may have the problem figured out. The new video card I put in was a PCI card. The on-board AGP port was most likely interfering with PCI card’s operation, causing the BSoD errors. I disabled the interrupt for the GP last night and so far so good. We’ll see as I have a lot of work to do after several days of photography and no computer.
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Mouth of the Brazos has a good idea on how to make the hurricane naming systems a little easier to understand.
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The Chron’s Business correspondent Loren Steffy seems to think there is no way for the X-Box marketing strategy to succeed. I tend to agree.
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Brigette writes to send me this important information.
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Think about it for just a second. Would such a product that could produce those results, or any single one of them even, really need any advertisment whatsoever? I think not.
Besides, if there were such a pruduct it would be deadly or illegal. Such seems to be the way of things.
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…and Bill says, “Sure, I’ll go to your award ceremony if I can do your wife, huh, huh.”
Bill Clinton Does BambiI don’t know about ya’ll but by the facial expressions on each one’s face, it looks like there is a high probability that Bill is goosing that chick in the ass.
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