Archive for January, 2005
Unforgiven
Roy Jacobsen on the “Unforgivable Sin.” (See Matthew 12:22-32 for the pertinent passage.) I’ve always figured that the unforgivable sin of speaking against the Holy Spirit had direct reference to the sin that leads to death, and the irredeemability of he who falls away. My Bible Baptist pastor back in Parañaque, when talking about these [...]
Agent to an Engagement
Congratulations go out to Daniel and Jennifer. I was both startled and ecstatic to see their “She said yes” and “I said yes” posts, and now I’m startled and ecstatic all over again to see that I am, in small part, initially responsible for the happy coupling. My weblog seems to have turned into some [...]
Amy at Snowy Kawameeh
Got this photo of Amy outside Kawameeh Middle School the morning after the blizzard. Photo taken with a Canon Powershot A400.
Union NJ in the Snow
Union got a bit over a foot of snow through what they’re now calling The Blizzard of 2005. Amy and I spent most of the weekend indoors, watching lots and lots of Futurama, with an occasional stroll/wade out into the wild, white, windy storm. I didn’t need to stay an extra day, but my train [...]
A Coming Blizzard
I’m now in Union, NJ, where the water sphere is tall and the blizzard warnings are in force. Excerpts from today’s storm warning: …BLIZZARD WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING…TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE 16 TO 24 INCHES BY SUNDAY EVENING.VISIBILITIES WILL BECOME POOR…WITH WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES.ANY TRAVEL IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED. IF YOU [...]
Potential Track Trouble
Argh. I sure hope they clear up the mess from yesterday’s Amtrak derailment before I get on the train up to New Jersey tonight. Then, on Sunday, I hope the snow from the weekend snow storm will have been cleared from the tracks for my trip back to DC. This isn’t looking like a good [...]
Adding rel=”nofollow” to Refer
These instructions are for Dean Allen’s Refer. First off, are you still running a public referrer log without any robots exclusion? Stop right there, and add a file named robots.txt to the root of your public html directory with this: User-Agent: * Disallow: /refer … using the pertinent URL of your Refer directory. Alternatively, you [...]
Adminshop, Reffy, PRStorm, and Referrer Log “Marketing”
(A note to companies thinking of resorting to referrer log marketing: don’t. It’s annoying and unethical, it has little effect on your search engine rankings since most referrer logs are private, and your money is wasted on a few lines of code that any script kiddie could throw together in a few minutes. People — [...]
On rel=”nofollow” as Ineffectual Plumbing Fix
Another take on rel=”nofollow.” It’s not so much a way to stop spammers from spamming your weblog as it is a way for the search engines to keep from stepping in the overflowing fecal waste. Nonetheless, it makes me feel good that from now onwards, spammers’ efforts to use our sites for their pagerank will [...]
Opportunity’s Iron Meteorite
Not too far from the wreckage of its reentry heatshield, Mars Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite lying in the soil. My first thought was that it might just be more heatshield debris, but no part of a spacecraft looks so clearly like a shiny rock as that, and the rover scientists seem to [...]