Blogging

I just completed a two hour interview with Bosch Fawstin for my podcast. It went great. We talked about his comics the Infidel and Table for One. We also talked about being comics outsiders and what that’s like. Also did much talking about Islam and a little about President Obama, which will upset some people most likely. Look for part one tomorrow evening and part two on Saturday.

I think I’m going to do more pod casts that video casts, the camera and lighting set up I have doesn’t satisfy me at the moment and audio podcasts require less bandwidth and I think a lot of people enjoy listening to an hour long podcast but wouldn’t watch a hour long video unless it was amazing. So I think it may be a way to go for the time being. So I am looking at my options right now and hope to get one out this weekend.

I started blogging in March of 2002. My first blog was on Blogger.com and I got off of there after about 7 months because it was so slow and fraught with down times. I moved to different blogging software and hosts and ended up losing a lot of content and hence traffic which is a shame because at my high point I had over 200,000 visitors a month.

Those were in the early days of the Iraq war and I was even part of the Pajamas Media Blogs when they first started. Over the years I have toned down the politics because I’m really not that partisan a person I am just tired of the lies being told out there. But I will continue to speak out about what I believe and I’m sorry if that offends some people, but I am expressing a point of view. Those who don’t respect freedom of speech are not anyone’s friend.

Those of you who have stuck with me over the years I want to thank you. And to those who are new to this blog, I’m glad you stopped by.

This blog has been getting a lot of spam in the form of fake new users. So I had to institute a captcha process to prevent bots from adding fake users to the blog. It’s not as annoying as a lot of captchas you see. It just asks for a simple math solution when you try to use a form on this site, like the login page. I apologize for the inconvenience.

I will probably be deleting a lot of the new users, if they seem fake. So if your account gets deleted by accident just re-register. Again, sorry for this but it was getting out of hand.

A reader complains that they see spam instead of my articls when they click on a story, such as text for Tramadol and so on. Does anyone else see this? I can’t seem to get it to happen for me.

I settled on a darker theme to make the text easier to read and i added some old essays and a story to the menus above if you care to take a look. I hope to be adding new stuff as the year rolls on. Hope you enjoy the new site and let me know if you have any problems or comments.

I’ve switched the theme again and will fix the blog so you don’t have to click READ MORE every time. Sorry about that. I’ve got to make some tweeks but it should be all set by New Years day sometime.

I went to look up my predictions for 2011 like I do every year to see how many came true and i couldn’t find them! Could I have forgotten to make any? Well, sure. It was a year that continued to suck for me from the year before and I haven’t had a lot of desire to rehash all the horror of watching the U.S continue to get ruined by the most corrupt/inept government in the nations history. Both parties have a lot to be blamed for. But the Dems get the bulk of the blame seeing how they have more power.

Regardless, the year is finally coming to a close and next year sees light at the end of the tunnel hopefully. We shall see.

I will make some predictions tomorrow.

The problem people keep telling me about with the paging seems to be related to the theme I was using which I loved, but it had problems. So I switched to this one for the time being and will look into fixing or replacing the old one. Thanks