Youtube recommendations…

…an automatic service that may need some tuning. Today, it offered for my review… “comedy” featuring Carrot Top.

I’d sooner walk around town in sandals, wearing socks that were fashioned of Cheez Wiz. I’d rather eat cigarette butts from a public ashtray. I’d be happier to live my days applying Chapstick to hoboes by lip-to-lip transfer, and I’m allergic to Chapstick.

Youtube, oh my Lord, what have you done?

And now for something completely different

A compelling, and compulsive, unusual rendition of the old Peanuts theme…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=N4UMqXMWdQM

You may gather a certain wrongness about the tune without knowing quite why. There’s kind of a key flaw, there… it really requires two players to do properly on guitar.

WordPress tip: use those categories

I didn’t start using the “categories” feature of WordPress until a month or so back. I finally got off my lazy ass and started assigning categories to my posts, past and present. The result has been a substantial increase in the number of daily hits, here, even as haphazard as some of my categories are. They seem to do a lot to help people search for topics that might be of interest to them.

Use the silly things. If you’re feeling serious about your site, you might want to investigate which categories are already in use, so you can choose the most helpful category names. Me, I just wang it. Err, “winged it” (no actual wang involved). But, this is not a commercial enterprise, and I’m not aiming to work at having mass appeal.

Fun with Cox

…no, silly. Cox Cable, my Internet provider.

My connection went out, last Friday. No Internet, aigh! Fortunately, I’d taken care of some key online chores earlier that day.

Service was restored, today, in a matter of minutes. But then, I told the technician what to look for. Last time, my connection had been (literally) cut off, in the phone room.

Fiddling while half.com burns: flame on

You may be aware, oh my children, that the Post Office has recently raised their rates… again. Not simply, but in a variety of confusing ways, depending on the size and shape of what you were hoping to mail, as well as its weight. Not even as a matter of class, as the size, shape, or weight may inadvertently skip your item on into an entirely different class.

It doesn’t affect most people, directly. Why post, when you can phone, text, email, AIM?

In an era when communications costs go down and down, is it so surprising that the postal costs go up and up? Yes, I think so. Perhaps it would be less so, if the Post Office weren’t a government-granted monopoly, but that’s not actually what I’m here to rant about.

The internet went down

My connection died, yesterday, early in the afternoon. It was not unlike having my fingers cut off. No news, entertainment, blog, reference section, financial services, email, websites. Dead to the world, voiceless, clueless.

How did people ever live without an Internet? Impossible.