I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of a better way to celebrate seven years of Not News than waking up to find that Network Solutions has temporarily suspended the domain registration. And on a day when some pretty important e-mails were expected to come down the pike, no less. I’ll take the […]
I think it’s time to recharge the ol’ batteries, so I’m gonna spend a week or so ruminatin’ on various topics before I return to the blog here. Have fun and keep cool.
Special Order Speeches essays from prior incarnations of Not News are now available from the SOS link on the sidebar. This category includes essays that were written for the Humor section of the site when that was its own entity. Transferring them into blog posts reminded me that I enjoy that kind of long-form not-quite-serious […]
I’ve finally resumed the process of putting old articles from the site’s prior format into the blog database. Tonight, Life in Practice essays from 2000-2004 can now be found from that helpful link in the sidebar.
My to do list says I’m supposed to tackle the Special Order Speeches section tomorrow, but that’s seeming ambitious.
I don’t […]
The site performance must be back closer to normal. The spam comments have resumed. Ah well, at least I can access the controls to kill them.
Thanks for your patience, everyone. I’m still considering other options for the future, but for now it’s good to have things up an running.
And remember that Crowded House song I […]
I’ve been having more trouble than I’d like accessing the site for the last week or two - any attempts to access the database-driven parts of the site (the current blog structure, the old forum) are just grinding on without much luck. If updates get spotty, this might be why. If anyone else is seeing […]
Some time over the next few weeks, there may be some alterations to the comment system in order to try to cut down on spam. I’m in the process of wiping out 770 comments that accumulated in the moderation queue since yesterday, and it ain’t my idea of fun. So if I accidentally killed something […]
The Public Policy articles from the HTML and phpBB versions of the site have now been brought into the current WordPress edition. For the most part I have not gone through and rechecked all of the links in those pieces, so there are probably some dead links and stuff that’s behind subscription walls right now. […]
Since the old phpBB forum was being overrun by spambots, I’ve switched it over to a read-only archive. I kind of regret that there’s not a space for folks to initiate conversation topics anymore, but the forum’s been dormant for months anyway so it’s not as though we’re cutting a function that anyone was using.
I […]
I know content has slowed to a trickle lately. Heck, a trickle might be optimistic. I’m in the middle of a number of things that will hopefully provide much fodder for discussion soon enough, not the least of which is the defense of my dissertation coming up in less than two weeks. So we’re not […]