Standard Mischief

With the outbreak of Reasoned Discourse^tm over at Paul Helmke’s Brady Blog to Prevent Gun Ownership you might think that there’s no way to inject facts into the debate anymore, well at least not with Paul Helmke.

However that is not the case. I am not the first to notice that the Brady Bunch is crossposting over at The Huffington Post. Comments are allowed with registration.

As I said a few posts ago, my crystal ball is cracked. I’m soliciting guesses for the number of hours until the Reasoned Discourse^{tm 1} sets in. Maybe we ought to have a betting pool?

Robb Allen counters with this succinct and insightful post:

Microstamping – A clear cut case of failure of imagination

¹No comments allowed or comments moderated to remove any opposing viewpoint.

It’s time yet again to do the WordPress upgrade. I did a clean install for version 2.2.1, but this time I got a chance to use Subversion. I just went into my blog via ssh and then issued one command. Total elapsed time 30 seconds. Done.

Can’t beat that.

Using fscking Rust-Oleim no less! The car looks pretty good, and you don’t end up going through a case of rattle-cans. Bonus, you don’t get CMYK-lung from the overspray.

Yea, I have a beater and as soon as I get all of god’s mistakes fixed on the thing, I’m gonna have to try this. It’ll look a lot better than a rattle can primer camo job.

Details here, and no, I don’t think this Corvair is a beater.

Photo stolen from the linked page (but he says that doing so is OK), and I reduced the size/quality via gimp.

Ever since my host had a major outage (actually, they colo, and their provider had a massive power failure), the trackbacks and pingbacks seem to be working.

I never realized how much the giving and receiving of pingbacks motivated my writing. Perhaps now I’ll be motivated to finished that series of heath care posts I was writing.

I’d consider getting my own server rackmounted somewhere, but I’d have to get a lot of utility out of it to justify the cost. The cheapest hosting I can find where I have root on my own box seems to be the many Mac mini colo plans, but they end up being at least $35 a month and I’d have to provide the Mac mini myself.

My current provider, NearlyFreeSpeech.net, handles my current hosting needs at a cost of 5-7 cents a day. I expect to get away with a total hosting bill of <$25 for the entire year unless I get slashdotted or something (and in that case, I might get charged an extra one time fee of $10 or so.) So I have no plans on going anywhere anytime soon.