Thanks to James for pointing at this hilarious BoingBoing article on MSN Spaces and an odd mix of vocabulary checks.

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Funny you should mention it, Dare. I signed up for a space and started playing with it to see if I could jam msn spaces into BLInk! Best I could see is emailing them using the mobile settings. So I can do that from BLInk! but not sure if it’s worth the effort since you can just use Outlook! 🙂

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Tempting? Hell yes! Shelley’s going through some soul searching. But of course, even if I wanted to be a Marqui call-girl, who knows if they would have me.

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www.sevendaysvt.com (they only leave stories there for one week) just featured local political blogger, Jerome Armstrong (www.myDD.com) of Howard Dean blogging fame, on in the popular, independent, Village Voice for Vermont-esque weekly paper.

Paul Wilson mentioned that his blog was featured in the local paper where he lives.

(update: check out Dare’s post on NewzCrawler (and others) as Denial of Service clients)

There must be a few people who have their aggregators set to check rss feeds every 10 seconds or something. I very rarely look at my stats because they don’t really tell me much. But I have to say I was a little surprised to see that there were over 14,000 hits to my website today (from 12am to almost 5pm).

So where do they come from?

10,000+ are from NewzCrawler then a whole lot of other aggregators and then a small # of browsers.

Very strange. I get a few links and fewer comments, so I really don’t think there’s a lot of people reading this and of course I know that the high aggregator number is from frequent refreshes.

One thing that I love to see coming in through referrers is that people are starting on the Vermont.NET website that has a feed from my Jobs category here and there are a lot of click throughs, which means that my posting local IT jobs that I find in the local papers over coffee (or that my hubby is kind enough to point out) is a good resource for some people.

I have two posts that make me very happy. One is a post on a Crystal Reports problem that I had a hard time figuring out and did not find help online for. I frequently see referrers coming in to that post where people are googling the same error message that I had received. Hopefully my post has answered their problem.

Another one was a debugging problem that made me nuts until I found a nugget in one of John Robbins books. I have gotten two comments on that post from people saying “THANK YOU!” as they were going through the same horrible pain.

This makes it all worth while!

I used to enjoy your blog, but not anymore. You don’t provide any useful or knowledgable content anymore, and who wants to keep up with your 15 posts per day? If you quit posting useless information so much, maybe you’d have time to to accomplish something and actually scale it down to one useful blog per day.

You need a dog. Or maybe a cat.

Sorry for my ranting. I just hate it when good blogs go bad.

But I HAVE a dog & cat! 🙂

I can never figure out why people feel a need to say “sorry I haven’t blogged in a while…”

I love this new feature on Shelley Powers’ blog.

Brian Dear was approached by an editor/publisher/whetever of the San Diego Reader about publishing a straight months’ worth of his blogs as an article. It is coming out soon. Here’s how it happened…