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Newspaper vs Blog

jay c — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:09:30 +0000

Last week Leo Laporte warned his listeners that they can’t just accept anything they read on a blog as the truth. It’s not like a newspaper.

Leo…Seriously?

I have never seen accurate newspaper reporting on a story for which I had firsthand knowledge except once when the paper printed it exactly as I wrote it. Never blindly accept any news story from any journalistic source.

Changing My Email Address

jay c — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:28:55 +0000

I’ve had the same email address for over ten years, and the SPAM is getting out of hand. My new email addy is now jc2010 at the same domain as before.

Motorola Droid

jay c — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:40:18 +0000

Later this month, I’ll finally enter the 21st century and upgrade to a Motorola Droid. With Android 2.1, I understand that it now supports multitouch in the default browser, which was its biggest drawback before. The Verizon rep I talked to couldn’t confirm that, but I don’t think she understood the question. She didn’t know what multitouch was or that gmail was Google.

Confirmed: Latest OS upgrade includes multitouch.

Update April 13, 2010: Changed my mind. I’m going to replace my current phone with another cheapy and put that money into marketing instead. Chamber of Commerce membership has been one of my best investments, so I think I’ll join the chamber in the neighboring county also.

Comment Spammers

jay c — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:59:45 +0000

The comment spammers are getting smarter. Frequently, their garbage is pertinent to the article on which they have posted, and actually makes sense. However, a quick Google will find the exact same comment on other blogs, and their email and web addresses clearly mark them as advertisers.

Counting Cards

jay c — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:36:43 +0000

On several occasions someone has told me that they had been reading my blog, but they didn’t show up on sitemeter’s statistics. It might be because of browser settings, ad-blocking software, or some other factor, but I am beginning to suspect that sitemeter is only counting about a third of my visitors. I doubt that another traffic analysis tool would do better.

More WordPress Woes

jay c — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:25:36 +0000

I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress Saturday night, and it wiped out all the edits I had made to the template I was using. I did a backup before the upgrade, but it only backed up the sql tables. Grrr.

Visitor 10,000

jay c — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:13:08 +0000

Congratulations, Verizon customer from somewhere in the vicinity of Potomac, Maryland, using Firefox on Windows XP and a screen resolution of 1280×1024 who clicked in from voxday.blogspot.com on the night of February 20th! You were my 10,000th visitor. Aren’t you proud?

OK, so 10,000 visitors in who-knows-how-many years isn’t much to brag about in the blogosphere. But, gosh darn it, they’re my visitors!

Google PageRank

jay c — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:16:17 +0000

Using SEOBook’s SEO Toolbar, I learned today that I have a higher Google PageRank than the Straightdope, Truthbearer.org, Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, and ReligiousTolerance.org. I’m at the same level as the Assemblies of God, BibleStudy.org, and GotQuestions.org.

Anyone care to exchange links? It might boost your own rating.

Imported Haloscan Comments

jay c — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:21:48 +0000

Thanks to Bethyada of True Paradigm and Justin of justinsomnia.org, I was able to import all my Haloscan comments into WordPress. Thanks, guys!

More Database Woes

jay c — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:04:48 +0000

Somehow in the course of upgrading and then restoring my WordPress database, the Marriage category was dropped and all of its blog posts were added to the History category. I don’t know if I’ll get around to fixing all of them. Just so you know…