website related

Change! Hope!

Or is that Hope! Change? In any event, and despite the fact that I’m convinced inertia/doing nothing is usually the best policy, Change! is coming to DISCRIMINATIONS. Our Movable Type platform is about to be replaced by WordPress. If all goes well (and with John Walker, my blog host and all-purpose web guy, they usually […]

UPDATE!

Narcissist In Chief has been UPDATED.

UPDATE!

“The Least Surprising Correlation Of All Time” has been UPDATED.

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This post has been UPDATED

Blog Housekeeping

My online host is moving my account to a new piece of hardware, and it’s possible as a result that the blog road may be a bit bumpy over the next day or so. Any disruption should be short and mild, but do let me know by email if you have trouble with anything.

Heads Up! New Comment Policy

The comments have gotten a bit out of hand again — too much personal invective, too much ranting, too little relevance. I am not banning any individual commenters (which would be easy enough to do), but I will no longer post any comments that have personal attacks (I consider calling people who disagree immoral a […]

UPDATE

A White Scholarship In Boston has been updated, as has University Of Michigan: Scofflaw?, immediately below.

Carnival Time

For interesting stuff on blogs you may not read, check out the recent Carnival of the Vanities, here, and make suggestions for the next one, here.

Housecleaning II

Some kinks resulting in the transition to a new server (but not host!) with an external spam filter are still being worked out. If you have trouble posting a comment, please send me: 1. The error message you receive. 2. The time (and your time zone) of the problem. 3. The name of the entry […]

Housecleaning

The wizard in charge of the server that hosts DISCRIMINATIONS is performing some behind-the-scenes housecleaning this weekend, primarily adding a new high-powered spam filter on the front end. So far the spam filter in my MovableType has been catching them all, but I still have to pay for the bandwidth they take up, and then […]