A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I know that Christmas is almost upon us and the mad rush that is the last minute gift buying season will be over in only a matter of weeks now, yet I figure that people want to save money all [...]

This kind of thing makes me wonder just exactly how much sense some people have.
HIGH COURT EASES CRACK SENTENCE GUIDELINES
The Supreme Court is allowing judicial discretion in sentencing. The laws call for
harsher sentences for crack cocaine crimes - which are more common among blacks -
than for those involving cocaine powder, which are more likely to [...]

First up, I’ve got a contest to tell about. It’s an iPod Nano giveaway by Trusted Tours and Attractions. Everyone who signs up to receive their Trusted Travel eNewsletter automatically gets an entry into a drawing to win an iPod Nano. This offer ends on December 31st so you shouldn’t waste any [...]

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By now you have seen this image in my sidebar with the universal negate on it. My decision to place this image on my blog rises out of growing disapproval of “G” and the way they’ve decided to handle things concerning pagerank lately which is [...]

Well, I think I’ve just taken the last step in my latest re-design adjustments. I’ve deactivated and removed the adsense plugin from Wordpress and the last bit of ‘G’ specific code (analytics) is now gone. I switched to using statcounter instead because frankly, it’s a lot more user friendly and easier to deal [...]

Once again the Iranian nuclear program is in the news. Now people in the ironically named “intelligence” field are saying that Iran has in fact stopped their program to build nuclear weapons…. in spite of the fact that they’re still enriching uranium as fast as they can get away with.
U.S.: IRAN HALTED NUKE PROGRAM [...]

Then it’s because I’ve been moving this blog’s subdomain, the primary domain, and some other bits from one web host to another. In the process there was at least 12 hours or more during which things didn’t work.
Fortunately I’ve gotten it all straightened out with the aid of the support wiki on Dreamhost and [...]

No, it didn’t. (but it made a pretty good headline didn’t it?)
I just read something over on “Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog” called “Analysis of a -a- -e- -ost Spam Campaign - Why -a- -e- -ost Just Exploded” and because it mentioned the url for one of my posts, I just had to comment.
Basically the [...]

I’ve never been what you could call anything even remotely like a financial wizard of any kind however there is one thing that I think I know and that’s to avoid debt whenever possible. That’s not to say that you should never get a loan. Loans can be quite helpful in things like [...]

I’ve decided to give a try moving from the “Royal” theme that I’ve been using for so long to ont that I built with the WordPress Theme Generator.
The main reason was that the Royal theme seemed to be slower loading and scrolling was kinda sluggish. I’m hoping that this new theme will do the [...]