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I'm on vacation starting Friday morning. For the next several weeks, I'll be posting somewhat less regularly than normal — although probably something above nothing. For literally billions of people around the world, this announcement not only won't be considered startling, it will pass totally unnoticed. One can only conclude that the poor souls haven't yet discovered [...]
Fri, August 18 2006 » Admin, Main Page » Comments Off
My 10th anniversary recollection of the Leader-Post downsizing was a runaway favourite amongst the visitors to this site and is probably the most single-clicked-on item in the history of this blog, maybe even beating The King. Here's the full list: 1. The great downsizing of 1996 2. Leah McLaren is quitting the blogosphere! (Feb. 25/06) [...]
Sun, April 2 2006 » Admin, Main Page » Comments Off
Here are some reader favourites from February: 1. 'Adding newsprint to the fire' (Feb. 5) 2. Does this mean I might never see Wile E. Coyote get blown up ever again? (Feb. 20) 3. Why not 24-hour monitoring for Christian hate speech? (June 14, 2005) 4. The genesis of the cartoons controversy (Feb. 5) 5. A [...]
Thu, March 2 2006 » Admin, Main Page » Comments Off
For starters, let's acknowledge the passing of The King — For the first time since I started this blog in August 2004, my posting on Elvis's Death Day isn't in the top 10 (it's #11). An amazing run, though. Here are the top 10 most clicked-on stories: 1. Wikipedia founder admits to quality problems (Oct. [...]
Mon, December 5 2005 » Admin, Main Page » Comments Off
When I got home tonight, I got messages from a few people saying they'd tried linking to my stories and were getting a trackback rejection message. Here's the deal: I was trying to clean out about 400 trackback links to casinos, discount erectile dysfunction meds and other fun stuff before leaving for work. As a [...]
Wed, October 19 2005 » Admin, Main Page » Comments Off
Hey folks: I'm on holidays for a week and don't anticipate doing any posting in that time. I suspect I'll be back behind the keyboard on Oct. 4. And unlike bloggers who just say they've gone fishing, I may actually do some fishing.
Mon, September 26 2005 » Admin, Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off
As I said last week, I turned off my anonymous comments to stop the flood of Texas hold-em and casino spam that was bombarding me. However, if you don't want to bother with a reader's account, you can email me at blog-dot-billd-at-gmail-dot-com. Let me know in the message if you want your email posted as [...]
Fri, August 26 2005 » Admin, Main Page » Comments Off
I'm spending way too much time cleaning Texas Hold-em spam out of my comments, so I'm blocking all anonymous comments. However, I will set up an e-mail address in the near future to accept blog comments from the unregistered. Update: Here's the address: blog-dot-billd-at-gmail-dot-com.
Wed, August 17 2005 » Admin, Main Page » Comments Off
This was my best month ever for page views, but oddly, the stuff I posted in July wasn't getting clicked on very much. Observe: 1. A fake American in Toronto (June 26) 2. Elvis's death day (Aug. 16/04) 3. June's dominant clickthroughs (July 2) 4. In the spirit of Guy Fawkes (June 22) 5. Billy [...]
Tue, August 2 2005 » Admin, Main Page » Comments Off
Hi folks: Here's what you found overwhelmingly compelling on this blog last month. I'll also list some posts that I'd hoped would have been more compelling: 1. Help smear Wal-Mart! :) (June 2) 2. Tagged, I'm it (June 6) 3. Access denied (May 28) 4. Elvis's death day (Aug. 16, 2004) 5. What a touchy [...]
Sat, July 2 2005 » Admin, Main Page, Minutiae » Comments Off