Tuesday - Oct 31st, 200611:29 pmUncategorizedComment
Posted by ZZ Bachman...
Seems like YouTube may be down from overload at 03:24 GMT Nov 1st. Or more likely it’s the kiss of death – Google style — given the recent aquisition by Google. The Blogger engineers must be having tea with the YouTube guys… see recent posts.
We are sure they will be back up soon. LOL. As for Blogger… Well they are up and running today. Let’s see if they can actually break a record and go the entire month of November without another “server outage”. We are not making any bets.
Scott Ott has wasted no time in assembling a thought provoking montage of “Smart Man” John Kerry (sorry Howard Stern, but we could not resist). The video clips appear to be compiled in tribute to one of the great deep thinkers of our time. A salute if you will to his inspiring instinct, intellect and impeccable timing always measured and calculated to obtain maximum political effect. Courtesy of ScrappleFace — When someone now says, “So just how smart are you?” after viewing this video clip you you’ll be able to say with pride…
“KERRY SMART!!”:
Political satirists can always count on John Kerry for some added comic relief during any election season. By the way, speaking of comic relief, where on earth is Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich and Al Sharpton? Come on guys… we miss you!!
Tuesday - Oct 31st, 20064:47 pmUncategorizedComment
Posted by ZZ Bachman...
So, Mr. Kerry once again puts his foot in his mouth a week before the Mid Term elections. Listen to this news conference and think about West Point grads and the thousands of troops that are already there in Iraq! What kind of message does this send?… Dems can do alot better than this guy in 2008 !!!
Nothing like alienating thousands of military in one fell swoop. In this comment he intimates that if you do well in school and make an effort to be smart you can stay out of Iraq!!! Expect MAJOR flipping on this over the next week. Fortunately You Tube has caught it verbatum. Let’s see how he wiggles out of this one. Hillary and Obama, make sure you save this link!!!
For those of you who use Blogger as your blog publishing tool, I suggest that the logo you see above currently displayed on the Google search engine has nothing at all to do with Halloween. But everything to do with what we are calling the “demise of Blogger.” The above image captures it all. It’s really a depiction of the horror that has become the Blogger publishing experiance! If you tried to post over the weekend (and you did not switch over to their Beta version for many really valid reasons I might add) you will know what I am talking about. The bandages and the skeletal hand are more than appropriate to depict how many users feel about Blogger right now. The reliability of this platform since Google purchased the company last year has gone completely down the toilet. Not to mention loss of confidence and credibility of the support staff and expecially the management who obviously don’t give a rat’s ass about redundancy in their hardware archetecture. Yet 1.6B was spent by Google to seek to acquire YouTube. If you have a site with any serious traffic and readership it has become a disaster! The Beta version, which has been in beta for for months now, is still in beta and loaded with issues along with a myraid of conversion headaches for all but the most simple sites. We are sure they will work them out. The question is WHEN?? For you FTP users who have your own domain and ISP… (like this site) you’ll just have more outages to endure until they provide an FTP version. The question is WHEN?? Lord only knows what bugs and issues everyone will be experiancing when FTP is available!
Here is an excerpt from Stuck on the Palmetto who replied to one of the recent Blogger Status Updates… I reprint it here in the name of every Blogger user that was frustrated during the past three days… Italics are from the recent Blogger Status update… LOL…
In the short term, we’re replacing quirky hardware and increasing our monitoring to stop problems before they start (forgive me my clichés?).
You mean like this morning’s publishing problem that went on for over 8 hours? Sorta slipped through the cracks, this one, right guys? (forgive me my clichés.)
In the long term, we’re developing a new version of Blogger with some great new features that is built on technology and hardware that has proven, Google-quality reliability.
Excuse me for one minute. HAHAHHHAHHHAHH HAHHAHHHHAH HAAAH HAAHAHHHAHHAHHA. Okay, I’m back with you. “Google-quality reliability?” You’ve had Blogger now for how long, Google? And how many times a week is it going down? You can’t even make the old one work but you want us to believe that the new one is going to be better?
And then literally in the next breath, these Silicon Valley dweebs tell us that just to show us they’re serious about this fixin’ up thing, they’ve updated their “status blog” with the new Blogger beta. The “status blog” is essentially where they tell us about how terribly sorry Blogger is about the outages. Oh, and excuse the “bugs” with new “status blog.”
…I’m pleased to point out that our status blog is now powered by the new version of Blogger. This means that we will be free of the Catch-22 of problems with the current version of Blogger preventing us from reporting about the problems with the current version of Blogger. (And we’ll fix that bug that makes it look like all the posts came from me. We’re on it.)
They haven’t even been able to figure out how to match up the correct author with the posts. These are the guys bringing us the new “Google-quality” Blogger. — Rick / Stuck on the Palmetto
By the way…. check out the announcement on YouTube and see what we mean!!! Plenty of money to burn on a website… we are scratching our heads how this fits into Google’s future vision. Could they find themselves becoming the not so “big brother” of George Orwell 1984 fame? Say perhaps in 2020? Hmmm….
Saturday - Oct 28th, 200610:05 pmUncategorizedComment
Posted by ZZ Bachman...
Years ago there was an old TV cigarette ad, “I’d rather fight than switch!” With one week to go before the 2006 mid term elections, many Republicans are wondering if switching might actually be the right thing to do for their country to send a strong message to the GOP regarding the mindless lemming like behavior that has plagued their party for the past two years! In fact, more and more dyed in the wool “Republicans” we know around the office are beginning to label themselves as “Independents”. No one in the good ole U S of A enjoys backing a looser. Right now, no matter which way you slice or dice it, the Iraq quagmire looks like a looser. The one track mind and incomprehensible inflexibility of the President, also looks like a loosing strategy. Pound that square peg into the round hole GW, never admit a mistake let alone change course. We’ll show those terrorists! We’ll make the Iraqi’s love us even if we have to kill every last one of them! Yes… very lemming like.
Who really wants to be associated with a lemming-like political philosophy? Only a few Republicans with only days before the election have made an attempt to think and speak independently and stray from the party line. John McCain at least has the courage to say what he believes in the face of criticism from within his own party. He seems like LESS of a lemming to us and is better for it politically. Joe Lieberman… another “Independent” will probably run away with the Conn. Senate seat. Why? Maybe because he has the courage to speak his own convictions like McCain. Again… less lemming like.
In the end our prediction is the U.S. will “leave” Iraq, maybe even under the Bush administration in time for the 2008 election in a desperate but failed attempt for the Republicans to regain the House and Senate and keep the White House. The Iraqi military will eventually centralize power as the U.S. withdraws and a new low key Sadaam-wanna-be will emerge. Maybe he (and we are sure it will be a HE by the way) will even be backed by the U.S.! Iran and Iraq will go at it again with Iran invading the southern half of Iraq and the oilfields in the south while bolstering it’s nuclear ambitions in the region. Shades of Iran contra and Iraqi alliances will emerge. Turkey will help “stablize” the north and provide “protection” to the Kurds. But hey, we will have an “alliance” with “friendly” military bases in Iraq and Turkey. Afterall, why not return to a strategy that has worked well in the past? Divide and conquer. When all this unfolds we can claim victory for our history books, and then proceed to delude ourselves until the next major Islamo-facist attack befalls the West. Then the cycle of fear will repeat itself. Out with the Democrats and in with the Republicans. To be sure without an Independent left to be had.
Saturday - Oct 28th, 20061:12 pmUncategorizedComment
Posted by ZZ Bachman...
Regardless of your political persuasion, you’ll have to admit that this campaign TV ad being run by the Tenessee RNC is hilarious. We have to give the producers an A on creativity. Maybe the good folks in Tenessee will set a whole new trend on humorus campaign mudslinging!
Thursday - Oct 26th, 20067:19 pmUncategorizedComment
Posted by ZZ Bachman...
Today all Americans can sleep soundly knowing that their lawmakers in Washington have been burning the midnight oil in an effort to pass a bill to build a fence “in concept” along the southern border of the U.S. This “concept fence” as the good people over at ScrappleFace put it, will provide the deterrent that will ensure the security of all Americans from all the evils arising from the open border to the south. It’s rumored however that a “concept fund raising events” are to be scheduled soon in all the major cities along the US / Mexican border. There will be also be a virtual ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled in the year 2010 when it is estimated that the concept fence will “in principle” be transformed to the “production fence” after years of testing the concept. Scott Ott over at Scrapple face puts his slant on today’s story from the White House concept bill signing ceremony. The GOP is really grasping at straws!! Can you say desperate?
(2006-10-26) ? President George Bush today signed into law a bill that authorizes a 700-mile long “?concept fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The concept fence, a project approved but not funded by Congress, is similar to a concept car, administration officials said.
According to an unnamed bill sponsor, “The concept fence is an insurmoutable barrier that will shut off the steady, daily flow of illegal aliens invading our country to take our jobs, boost our crime rate, burden our social welfare system and potentially bear contagious diseases or weapons of mass destruction. The concept fence is impossibly high, supercharged with 1.21 jigowatts of electricity, and each mile is guarded by a battalion of National Guard troops and a squadron of A-10 Warthog fighter jets.”?
If the concept proves popular, officials said, Congress may eventually fund the actual “production fence” which will be a three-foot high hedge of juniper bushes.
Human rights advocates responded to the new law by charging that the 700-mile fence would force undocumented workers to squeeze through the remaining 1,400 mile border gap, possibly causing lacerations and brush burns.
Any ideas on what might be in store for the northern border with our Canadian friends? We are thinking along the lines of a 4,ooo mile mote stocked with lamprey, and patroled by hyperactive crazed sea otters connecting Vancouver with the Saint Lawrence Seaway.
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