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Now relegated to Blogblivion...Tuesday, November 15, 2005
2005 Weblog Award Nominations Now Being Partially Accepted
Nominations are open for the 2005 Weblog Awards. You may nominate someone, but only if you have a Typekey identity.
We have unflinchingly refused ever to register with Typekey, and therefore will not be nominating anyone. Sorry. There are certainly worth choices out there.
Perhaps the voting will not be limited and we will be allowed to vote on whoever are the nominees. Meanwhile, it should still be interesting to watch the process and see if the nominations and results make sense.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Attention Googlers
You will find lots of interesting stuff on this blog, under the categories to the right or on the main page, and for that matter on the other blogs we have linked. However, you are not likely to find here any pictures, films, videos, real or fake, free or for a fee, topless, nude, naked, or without clothes, or information about the weight and so forth, regarding:
Kate Hudson, Emma Watson, Linda Park, Jolene Blalock, Alexis Bledel, Lauren Graham, Keiko Agena, Liza Weil, Amber Tamblyn, Becky Wahlstrom, Mary Steenburgen, Mageina Tovah, Constance Zimmer, Hilary Duff, Sprague Grayden, Lacey Chabert, Lindsay Lohan, Erica Durance, Allison Mack, Kristen Kreuk, Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Meg Ryan, Kathryn Morris, Jorja Fox, Emily Procter, Moira Kelly, Mary McCormack, Janel Moloney, Melissa Fitzgerald, Lisa Edelstein, Elisabeth Moss, Teri Polo, Mary-Louise Parker, Annabeth Gish, Jennifer Finnigan, Haylie Duff, Lea Thompson, Amy Pietz, Melissa Theuriau, Hallee Hirsh, Lauren Storm, Kristy Wu, Jill Hennessy, Kathryn Hahn, Caroline Dhavernas, Katie Finneran, Diana Scarwid, Tracie Thoms, Jewel Staite, Gina Torres, Morena Baccarin, Summer Glau, Sarah Paulson, Helena Bonham Carter, Missi Pyle, Annasophia Robb, Julia Winter, Dakota Fanning, Maura Tierney, Parminder Nagra, Linda Cardellini, Kiera Knightly, Natalie Portman, or any of hundreds, if not thousands, of others.
Enjoy your visit!
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Peter Drucker CotC
We are going to break one of the normal CotC rules, which is one post per participant. We are going to make a special CotC section for posts about Peter Drucker. If you want to write something, you can submit it even if you have already submitted a post. This will apply to the November 14 and 21 editions, as it’s rather short notice to do it all in this week’s alone.
Friday, November 11, 2005
Rest In Peace Peter Drucker
Via Rob May, business luminary Peter Drucker has died. A sad day indeed, though 95 years is a good run.
There may or may not be a special tribute associated in some way with Carnival of the Capitalists. More details here as available on what, if anything, we work out in that regard.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Carnival of Marketing Prepares to Debut
Of possible interest, there is a Carnival of Marketing preparing to launch, seeking entries.
It’ll be a test of the kind of rules some would like to impose on CotC, limiting entries included in an effort to get only the best, prefiltered for readers. Sort of a true “Best of Marketing” for the week, if you will, more than a traditional carnival.
I tend to find the marketing entries in CotC particularly interesting, so a focused carnival on that subset of business sounds great to me. Check it out and enter if you have a relevant post.
Saturday, November 05, 2005
CotC Blog Discussion (Updated)
This post is a placeholder for discussion of ideas and requests for the Carnival of the Capitalists blog that will replace the current static pages, adding bells and whistles. I may update this post with my own thoughts later, but for now it’s here to provide a link for comments in a notice on the Carnival of the Capitalists page.
Update:
Here is some of what we have in mind for the Carnival of the Capitalists blog that will replace the static pages:
A massive blogroll of business and economics blogs.
A separate, more prominent blogroll giving visibility to blogs that have been hosts.
Obviously a listing, easily findable, of future hosts.
Obviously a listing, easily findable, of past locations.
As best we can, recreation posts of past editions of CotC that have disappeared from the blogosphere.
At a polite, as yet undetermined interval following publication of each edition CotC, a mirror of it at the CotC blog. Perhaps two months afterward, for instance, so it serves an archival/backup purpose without detracting from the bulk of the traffic the CotC post will ever generate for the host.
Obviously info on CotC, on hosting, and so forth, probably more comprehensive and easy to focus in on exact answers than has been the case.
Possibly features like votes for favorite recent posts or hosts.
Possibly a submission form that will supplement the others out there.
Links to other carnivals and/or carnival home/info pages.
Links to online business publications and resources.
An easy to remember and find location for announcements regarding CotC, such as last minute host changes or delays in publication.
Possibly more. Any suggestions?
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Rest In Peace Heather Bare
I unfortunately wasn’t able to post about this sad news yesterday when Laughing Wolf updated me by e-mail.
One of the several - meaning rather few, in the wider scheme of things - bloggers I have met is person was Heather Bare, known to the world as Momma Bear. Despite her living mere towns away (probably a mere 10 minutes, since we moved), we met at the first New England Blogger Mini Bash in New Hampshire in 2004. I gather this was not long before she turned up sick. I treasure having had that chance to meet her, and her late husband, despite not having taken her up on a standing offer to have me visit and shoot with her, made when I was a new blogger in 2003.
While long expectation has softened the blow, I remain saddened by the news of her passing.
There are tributes by The Gray Monk, Laughing Wolf, and Kathy Kinsley. Laughing Wolf has added links to numerous other blog tributes.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
When I Move…
I have moved, and mail arriving for me at the prior address is null. Dead letter. Previous occupant. Toss or return.
It doesn’t matter if the place is currently occupied by someone who knows me. It is no different than if the previous occupant were a stranger.
That is all.
Friday, October 21, 2005
Happy Fourth
Happy Blogiversary to Sharon! She has been at it for four years. Not many can say that. It makes her and Glenn blogging contemporaries, the way Wizbang, OTB and PoliBlog are blogging contemporaries for me.
Monday, October 17, 2005
Sorry, Still Working On It!
Between people here being sick, work, having a kid to help take care of - exacerbated by the aformentioned sick thing, and the fact that going through the entries is so damn fun and I am trying to do a good job of it, I am still not quite done.
What will probably happen is I will put up the basic post in the next hour or so, with all the links, and then I will flesh it out with things I want to say while I have the bully pulpit. I’ll send the URL to the mailing list as soon as I have it up.
I just looked at the blog for the first time in hours, and we’ve had more hits today than average, just on account of people coming here checking for CotC. Pretty impressive, even though it makes me feel guilty.
Still Slogging
Carnival of the Capitalists will appear here later in the day, but I am still slogging through it at this time. Things here conspired to slow me down. Stay tuned… (It’ll be a few hours; I’d check back 2:00 PM or later.)
Sunday, October 16, 2005
A Note on Carnival of the Capitalists
I’d have posted this earlier, but for yet another power outage. At least the wind killed the rain, and we now have - gasp! - sun out there.
Be advised that I am sticking to the recommended 3:00 PM eastern time deadline for accepting entries for this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, which will be up when it’s up. At the rate I am going, that may be well into tomorrow morning. Naturally my turn to host turned into a crowded timing confluence.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Grand Rounds Is Up
The latest Grand Rounds is up, featuring a nice collection of medical blogging posts.
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Carnival Catch-up
I have been neglecting to link carnivals as they have come out lately; almost like a blogging burnout symptom. Here’s where I’ll do some catching up on the recent week or two, as best I can identify them.
The September 26 Carnival of the Capitalists was emergency-hosted in style by AnyLetter. The 104th edition was hosted by Drakeview.
The next two CotC editions, for the anniversary observance, will be hosted by Business Pundit and me respectively.
The latest Carnival of the Recipes was hosted by The Glittering Eye. The previous edition was at Like News but Tasty.
The latest Carnival of Computing is up at founding blog AnyLetter. As was the previous edition.
The latest Grand Rounds is at The Haversian Canal. The previous week, the anniversary edition, was at Family Medicine Notes.
The third edition of Carnival of Compassion was at Diabetes Mine. I believe I also missed the second edition, with was at Cancer News Watch.
I guess that about covers carnivals I would normally link as they are published. Sheesh. What a slacker. If you’re looking for interesting reading, perhaps something different for a gloomy Sunday afternoon, you should be well covered.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Carnival of Computing
I was remiss in not linking the first edition of Carnival of Computing, after I provided Andrew some advice on founding such a thing. I thought is was a great idea.
This whole being offline thing is no fun. The whole moving thing just makes it worse.
Monday, September 19, 2005
And Finally…
We hit 175,00 last night. Yay!
If Verizon is on schedule, we will be offline in about 10 minutes. Except if I go to the office, or if we dialup from the new place. Bye DSL. We’ll miss you when you’re gone…
Carnivals of Compassion and Caregivers
There’s a new carnival in town, called The Carnival of Compassion. The founder is a future Carnival of the Capitalists host, and I helped out with some advice on the undertaking.
In the words of the first edition intro:
The purpose of this Carnival is to discuss how patients, their families and healthcare workers deal with life, death, healing and disease.
In other words, it’s a complementary carnival to Grand Rounds, being primarily from a patient perspective rather than a medical care provider perspective.
Check it out!
Sunday, September 18, 2005
DSL Break
Tomorrow at noon our phone here goes off and our phone there goes on. That means DSL goes off. However, that could take as long as ten days to go on there, though chances are it’ll be far less.
We have dialup we can use, so it’s pretty certain we won’t be completely offline even at home. However, we’re likely to be on less from home. I’ll have normal access while I am at the office. However, I normally do Sadie pictures and CotC stuff from home, and that is where I have my record of birthdays handy.
I’ve posted daily Sadie pictures through the 26th. If DSL isn’t on yet by the 27th, I’ll put them up somehow. Just wanted to make things easier.
I’ve posted birthdays through the 28th. Presumably DSL will be back for the big one on the 29th.
I’ll find a way to do CotC announcements and page changes, but those may be less prompt than they would be. We may be fully enough moved by tonight that we’ll be internet-free by the time we go to bed. Addiction is a terrible thing…
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Your Daily Sadie
Don’t be alarmed if the Sadie pictures start to seem old or repetitious. Before we lose the internet connection at home, I expect to queue up one for each of the days we are likely to be offline, and new pictures may wait. We’ll have the option of dialup, but everything will be in enough of a flux that getting the pics out of the way could be convenient. The estimated date for DSL on is the 29th, Sadie’s first birthday, but they’ll probably take far less than the ten calendar days that implies. They just have to prepare customers for the worst.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Cars!
We’ve decided definitely to get rid of the van, a 1993 Plymouth Voyager with around 120k miles on it. We’ll keep driving the reliable Sentra, which as a bonus has been getting 30 MPG every tank, until we find another sedan type of car to replace it with in as little as a couple months to as far away as spring.
We’d love to get something for the van, so I’d been thinking of putting a best reasonable offer sign on it and list the details of what it’s had and is known or expected to need. Figured first I’d post about it, tell the relatives, e-mail the people at work, etc. to see if someone wants it. Otherwise it’s probably just going to get towed away, and it can at least do the good of providing parts to repair other vehicles of its kind.
We just can’t afford to put in the money it needs, want to replace the van and Sentra with one car anyway, will save money on insurance, and do away with the 3-cars parking issue. When it’s time for the Sentra to go, if it’s still chugging along, we’ll probably give it to my nephew for all the help he gave me at the office this summer. He can use it as a beater first car for a year or so and then move on to something better. But we’ll see.
We have the truck parked at the office, shades of a company truck - which we’ve actually considered making it officially - and the owner of the building, who is also the owner of my big client, would prefer not to “have cars parking there overnight.” Which is a riot, since it’s entirely possible at some point that I could have company vans that would legitimately have to park there, much as I noted a nearby pseudo-competitor has in the parking lot where they rent. I can’t imagine that being an issue if it came up as more than a hypothetical, but obviously if it does come to growing in that direction, I’ll have to clarify my ability to park company vehicles first. I know it’s not forbidden by the lease.
The tipping point was seeing that at least two of the tires look unsafe to drive on and need replacing. What we know to be wrong or needed includes: tires; windshield; transmission adjustment; something causing a grinding sound that may relate to the transmission linkage/hookup being out of whack, bearings, brakes being out of whack, or who knows; serious problem being underpowered, as if there’s a vacuum leak, or could be related to the transmission (it seems like the bulk of the problem may be things poorly put back together last time we had it worked on); and I discovered the other day that the AC is completely dead, as if was taken offline entirely last time the car was worked on.
What we know to be good or new about the van includes: new alternator and mounting bracket for same; new starter; high quality (I bought the better parts myself and had them put in) new front brakes and rotors; excellent, almost new-looking body except a bit of rusted area along the rocker panel/door bottoms, I think only on the driver side; it’s comfy to ride in, has great heat (a problem with the Sentra), and a nice, working radio with cassette (totally dead in the Sentra); it’s a few years old now, but it has a high end battery identical to the one my father used in his plow truck in northern VT for 10 years. When I first got the van, it surprised us by needing $1400 of work, which included all the normal things a vehicle with 80-90k miles might want, like total replacement of belts and hoses and timing belt.
Basically, money has been poured into it, trying to get it to a tipping point where it would just go for an extended time without anything major being needed again. I was going to keep it, figuring this would do it for a while, barring that the transmission (a replacement of the one that came in it) dying again.
Trouble is, I see the tires - $300?, the windshield - as cheap as $100 or so if I got junkyard glass and had my brother install it, but $200 minimum commercially, and the “black box” of uncertain under the hood transmission adjustment and probably other stuff, which I have been pegging at the barest minimum of $200-300 to as much as a grand if it’s major enough.
We’re done. It’s probably a good vehicle for someone who can do a lot of this stuff themselves, or who is willing to bet on the repairs plus a small purchase price being an acceptable value.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Third Anniversary Carnival of the Vanities
A few months before I started blogging, just over a year before there was Carnival of the Capitalists, there was CotC’s inspiration, the original blog carnival: Carnival of the Vanities.
Today the third anniversary CotV is up. Wow! Naturally Silflay Hraka is hosting the anniversary edition.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Public Service Announcement
Have you noticed that Outside The Beltway comes up looking as if it hasn’t updated since changing hosts? If you get the wrong version of the page, it looks like this:
The correct version of the page most recently looks like this:
Apparently there are DNS propagation problems, and the blog as it stood on the old host is still there, coming up if the DNS information is old. Deb has never gotten the new page since the change. I was getting the new page, but started getting the old one some of the time. Weird.
Anyway, if you want to be sure you are getting the latest James Joyner fix, you can go direct to the IP address, using http://205.234.131.166 rather than http://outsidethebeltway.com to get to his blog.
Update:
Attempting the irony of adding this to today’s Beltway Traffic Jam.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Carnival of Computing
Andrew Hughes, who hosted the May 16, 2005 CotC, has proposed a new carnival:
This strikes me as an excellent idea.
The idea is still fluid, though as his post says, he’d like to have the first one as soon as possible. Some possible topic areas include:
Software Design/Reviews
Hardware Design/Reviews
Open Source Commentary
Industry related Business
Etc.
Send your entries to andrewhughes.1 -at- gmail -dot- com.
http://anyletter.blogspot.com/2005/09/lets-have-carnival.html
Carnival of the Capitalists and Blawg Review
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up, with a great job organizing it by Evelyn Rodriguez. There is a special section on Katrina that may be of interest even to folks who might not normally check out CotC.
There is also the latest Blawg Review up today, hosted at wonderfully named blog Preaching to the Perverted. It features a dynamic table format, inspired by Political Calculations.
Monday, September 05, 2005
Blawg Review Is Up
If you need a blog carnival fix today, since Carnival of the Capitalists will be posted a day late in deference to the holiday, you might want to check out the latest Blawg Review for a law blogging roundup. For more information, see the Blawg Review site.
Friday, September 02, 2005
Welcome!
Todd added a new member to his family Wednesday. His name is Zach, and he’s very cute. Yay for new babies!
Monday, August 22, 2005
Need More Reading?
Lest we forget that lawyers are capitalists too, there is also this week’s Blawg Review you can check out while waiting for CotC to be published. To make things more fun, this edition features a reality TV theme.
While You’re Waiting…
While you’re waiting for this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists to be up, you may be interested in checking out the Carnival of Personal Finance or Carnival of Tomorrow.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Grand Rounds Is Up
The latest Grand Rounds, a collection of medical blogging, is up at Circadiana.
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Put Your Money Where Her Mouth Is
Venemous Kate could use some help right now, if you are able.
Ouch.