semi-coherent ramblings from the man behind the curtain http://smog.net/ Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:03:13 -0500 BUDDY version 1.7 - content management system for dogs http://smog.net/whatsnew/images/smogRSSlogo.gif http://smog.net/ smog.net feed logo 88 31 Yesterday I had a domain in a Moniker.com/SnapNames auction that "sold" for $19,000. Pop the champagne corks, right? Not so fast, kid! Today the auction results do not include a few of the names that "sold" yesterday, mine included. All I can gather from that is that the sale didn't go through... http://smog.net/index.php/167 How much do you know about databases? If the answer is "not much," consider yourself lucky... http://smog.net/index.php/166 I watched the movie Rockers again over the weekend. This is absolutely and unequivocally tied for my favorite movie of all time. Rockers is my Woodstock, baby. Shot in Jamaica in 1976 and 1977, the golden age of reggae music, this film is packed with legendary roots musicians as "actors," great music, a wicked revenge story that culminates in a sort of shantytown crissmass mornin', iya!.. http://smog.net/index.php/165 What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better... http://smog.net/index.php/164 The only sad thing about the death of ex-Senator Jesse Helms is that it didn't happen 40 years ago, before the idea to run for public office entered his spongy, bigoted, narrow, inbred, addled, shitlike brain... http://smog.net/index.php/163 It was my first book and I was pretty excited about it. When the first 5 or 10 copies came in the mail I opened one of them and smelled it. "Yeah, that smells like a real book," I thought. Hey, you do weird things when it's yours... http://smog.net/index.php/162 In a nutshell, this guy - Mark Heard - is running a service that will contact your loved ones for you, via email, after the "rapture.".. http://smog.net/index.php/161 Well, Bo Diddley is dead. This is a guy who literally invented rock and roll, along with Chuck Berry and Little Richard... http://smog.net/index.php/160 Wow, the smog.net domain is more than 10 years old. To celebrate this monumental occasion, I will show you how much spam a domain gets when it has been around for a decade... http://smog.net/index.php/159 When I was 6 years old I wanted to be in the Beatles. But I didn't have a guitar, and it seemed awfully difficult to actually be in the Beatles, and, maybe most importantly, I was only six years old... http://smog.net/index.php/158