Well, folks, I am glad they finally caught the guy stalking us here in Mordor. I don’t have much to say about the sniper situation that hasn’t already been said better by Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, so I’ll direct you there.
I do have a few things to say about how people here in [...] Read more »

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I have a bit of content that will soon outgrow its space. I originally planned to use thudfactor as a laboratory. Someplace I could work on online projects without having to get a domain name for each project. Once a project outgrew the space, I figgured I could then spin it off.
It’s time for [...] Read more »

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While I’m on the subject, let me speak of Alanis Morrisette. Lots of folk tried to show how smart they were by pointing out that Alanis’s misuse of the word “irony.” “Irony,” they said, “means the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.”
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Donna discusses the use of a couple of words in split infinitives with a side of self-loathing. In her comments she references David Gagne’s Impact the Itch and this bit in the Atlantic Monthly. This has me thinking about language.
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I set up Moveable Type’s search, and what do I see on the search logs? People looking for things not in the weblog. Obviously, with all the other content I have on here, I’ll need a more robust search feature.
If you hit this page using the search function, then, here are links to non-blog content [...] Read more »

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