A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Ok, the “Crash Recovery” of previous entries is as complete as it’s going to get. There were 88 entries before the crash and when this [...]

“Snakes on a Plane” fails to charm moviegoers (Reuters) Reuters - So much for the Internet hype. “Snakes on a Plane,” a [...]

Frankly, Everyone should be welcoming this ruling. This thing went entirely too far.
CCR WELCOMES RULING DECLARING DOMESTIC SPYING ILLEGAL & UNCONSTITUTIONAL On August [...]

In light of recent news about AOL leaking user’s search terms, this EFF article about keeping search history private is very much a good idea and should be required reading for everyone who uses search engines and [...]

As I suspected might happen, the old posts were nuked when I uploaded that last post. Following this, I’m going to re-post the last 5 entries and call the rest a loss and [...]

I was editing a new entry when for unknown reasons the computer locked up. Frozen cold as absolute zero. When I rebooted and got Thingamablog restarted I was greeted with this Error message:
Error Details…
java.lang.Exception
Unable to connect to database
net.sf.thingamablog.backend.HSQLDatabaseBackend.connectToDB(Unknown Source)
net.sf.thingamablog.gui.app.ThingamablogFrame$2.construct(Unknown Source)
net.sf.thingamablog.SwingWorker$2.run(Unknown Source)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
On further investigation the blog database was apparently damaged. All the template files are [...]