Basil’s Blog

Items I found while perusing my blogroll:

ScrappleFace finds Dubya’s New Year’s resolutions
Riehl World View looks at military medal awards this year
SondraK muses on the treatment of animals
B-Cack (Dr Phat Tony’s) solves the illegal immigration issue with Mexico
Once More Into The Breach looks at Virginia’s handling of illegals
The Florida Masochist hands out the year end Knucklehead [...]

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This weekend, we have only one interview. The good news is … it’s with Tiffany of Blown Fuse…

She’s ready. And it looks like the interview panel is ready…

Now for the first question…

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From Reuters:
CIA couple outed by 5-year-old son
Karl Rove blamed
From ABC News:
Angry Chihuahuas Attack Cop
Taco Bell riot quelled
From ABC News:
Ankle Device Monitors Alcohol Consumption
Urine detector a hot seller
From ABC News:
Yellow Underwear, Broken China
Drunken New Year’s Party highlights White House celebration
From ABC News:
Male Domination of the Internet Is Over, Study Finds
Women discover porn
From ABC News:
PETA Staffer Changes [...]

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This week, we’re a few days late, but we now present the Blog Interview with Life-of-Rubin…

The interviewers are ready to go…

We’re ready to go…

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Items I found while perusing my blogroll:

Sigmund, Carl and Alfred get Raskolnikov of Dust My Broom on the couch.
Motopolitico hosts the Carnival of Comedy [via IMAO]
Jo (Jo’s Cafe) finds you should always check the label
SeanS (Shoot a Liberal) has an idea for handling the ACLU
MacStansbury (MY VRWC) explains conservatism
Cory (CORE|BLOG) heads north*
ScrappleFace discovers another ACLU [...]

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No, I still got some more stuff to do. But I’ve got the bulk of everything finished. At least to my satisfaction.
Still, there’ll be some impact to things. Because this whole week was wasted on silly stuff like removing my customized … but inefficient … PHP code so that Dreamhost wouldn’t get their panties in [...]

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Yes, it’s taking longer than I expected to make the code changes. Perhaps I shouldn’t have upgraded to WordPress 2.0, but I’m so far into it that I’m not going back.
No, if you’re looking to upgrade to WordPress 2.0, you shouldn’t worry about having such issues. But if you notice all the stuff in the [...]

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We’ve reverted to one of WordPress’ simple themes while we re-work the code. We’re also upgrading to WordPress 2.0 in order to use the latest, most efficient version of the blogging software.
TrackBacks and Comments may be off during the upgrade. Once the upgrade to 2.0 is complete, we’ll do some verification before we are back [...]

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Recently, we were notified by Dreamhost (the hosting service we’re using) that this little blog is using more server resources than it should.
The reason it’s an issue is that, well, I’m cheap. I’m not making money on this little blog (yes, we’ve sold a few Blog Ads, but not many; and no repeat business). Which [...]

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I read an article by Sigmund, Carl and Alfred yesterday where the topic was about the “loyal opposition.”
I’ve seen and heard that phrase used a lot regarding Democrats and the Bush administration. But I don’t care for that phrase.
Oh, it’s a proper phrase when used in proper context. But I don’t see, with few examples, [...]

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