Blogules, 9 December 2003
The calendar over there to the left (if you’re looking at the front page) has been looking a bit lonely this month. At first, that was a consequence of MT using the current month every time the front page is rebuilt, which in turn happens every time someone posts a comment. Post an article on the last day of the month, get a comment after midnight, your full calendar disappears.
But that’s only an excuse for a couple of days, until you realize that your intrepid columnist (web-author? publisher? blogger? whatever) has just been busy/lazy. So there you go — all I can say is “my bad.”
As usual in times I’ve been lazy, there’s a backlog of small stuff that I can fashion into a semi-respectable post. So on with the show!
- Coming soon, I promise, will be a report from the 2003 Army-Navy Game and a commentary on the Richmond RiverDogs hockey game I attended a few weeks ago. I may also hit an education story out of Maryland that both Gerritt and his brother commented on last month, but that’s less certain.
- I’ve made a small change to my blogroll. Tim of Rink Blog made a spectacular exit from hockey blogging, angry (and in many ways justifiably so) at what the National Hockey League has become during Gary Bettman’s tenure as commissioner. I wish Tim well, but with his exit, I’ve added Backcountry Conservative to the roll in his place. BC is run by fellow Fanblogs.com contributor Jeff Quinton, who was kind enough to link to BTN — so I’ll return the favor. Jeff posts on, among other things, conservative politics, Clemson sports, and Georgetown basketball.
- Recent discovery: my iBook’s battery life has dropped like a rock. I’m getting about 2.5 hours using WiFi and the screen on full brightness — I used to be able to pull 4 hours out of that. This may settle the question on whether the iBook goes to Europe (oh, yeah, I’m heading for London and Dublin) all on its own. If I can’t watch a couple of DVDs on the plane without plugging it in (and carrying the extra power brick the airplane power ports would require), it may not be worth the hassle.
- Speaking of Europe, I’ve asked Matt to guest-write the BTN Insight Bowl report, as I will be taking off for Gatwick about the time the Hokies and Bears kick it off in Phoenix.
- The steel tariffs have been lifted. Given the political uproar, it was probably the best thing to do. The idea of giving in to European political manipulation (and oh, how they’re crowing about it) irritates me, but such is life.
More soon.
9 December 2003 / 0 Comments / Tags: life, politics, tech, travel