06 November 2007
Ten Seconds, Please?
It strikes me that I never announced the rollout of Ten Second News here (even though I added it to the sidebar). Whoops!
Anyway, not-retired-for-long-from-blogging Alex Whitlock and I have launched what is intended mostly as a linkblog on politics, books, and culture. By linkblog, we mean the focus will primarily be on linking to writing on politics/books/culture that we find interesting, as opposed to the same old tedious commentary on the same old news that is available all over the blogosphere. We may occasionally offer a few comments on the articles, but the focus really isn't our commentary.
It's sort of a resurrection of the old Reductio Ad Absurdum linkblog we had going some years ago (without the e-zine format, since people seem to prefer a blog format) and a fusion of our respective furl links.
Mr. Whitlock wrote about TSN here, and there is some more info here.
Give the thing a read and follow some of the links if you're so inclined. We'll try not to bore!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 11/06/07 09:21 | Web Stuff | Technorati | Comments (0)
28 April 2006
HostMatters Blues
Host Matters (where blogHOUSTON is hosted) got hit with a massive DOS attack earlier today.
Now, apparently Round Two is underway, according to HM support.
If I weren't constrained by the fun of a 24k dialup connection today (fun!), I would have grabbed the mySQL databases from HM when they got the DOS under control earlier today and flipped the DNS to blogHOUSTON over to my backup host (where this blog is hosted).
Alas, that just wasn't happening at 24k. Maybe tomorrow, if this continues.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 04/28/06 19:56 | Web Stuff | Technorati | Comments (0)
22 March 2006
Songbird
I haven't downloaded Songbird yet, but it looks darn useful.
I'll have to give it a try soon.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/22/06 20:48 | Web Stuff | Technorati | Comments (0)
25 February 2006
Chron.com and Bloglines
Bloglines emailed me last night that Chron.com feeds are working again in their service.
I had a support request in, as the feeds stopped updating early in the week. The feeds were fine from the Chron.com end (thanks to them for helping to troubleshoot), but Bloglines just wasn't getting 'em.
I tried NewsGator-web just for Chron feeds during the downtime, but didn't really like the service. The interface is slick, but the screen refreshes and frequency of updates just didn't seem to compare favorably to Bloglines.
Bloglines is starting to seem misnamed, though. I don't use it to track that many blogs really, but I find it indispensable for tracking news.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 02/25/06 12:01 | Web Stuff | Technorati | Comments (0)
21 May 2005
Oilpatch Democrats
Well well, there's a new blog written by Democrats who claim to work in the oil industry.
Welcome to local blogging, guys. Or at least I assume it's local, since I found it at Houston Democrats.
I can't see how the blog has much to do with the industry, but maybe that will come in time. If not, the name is clever anyway.
On a related note, there's been some serious discussion at my own BigCo in the industry about me doing a political risk weblog of sorts, with BigCo sanction. It's just talk at this point, but it could get me blogging more about international affairs again. If anything develops, I will of course point it out here.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/21/05 21:04 | Web Stuff | Technorati | Comments (1)
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