• Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    British Far Right, Defeated At Polls, Resorts To Street Thuggery

    May 27, 2011 - By 

    Can we expect this even if our own ultra-right is marginalized and defeated in elections? Somehow I think our racist wackos skew older, and less physically able to carry out coordinated attacks. But dang, they could sure cause traffic jams and hog all the sidewalks with their RVs and scooters. Far-right activists have attacked trade union meetings and anti-racist groups in the past month in what campaigners and politicians say is an escalating campaign of intimidation and violence. In the latest incident, a 20-strong group hurled concrete pillars, glass and rocks at a meeting on multiculturalism organised by Labour councillors…

  • The Life of Riley - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Riley Doing Well At The Kitty Spa

    May 26, 2011 - By 

    While we’re on vacation, I checked with our vet, Arlington Cat Clinic, where Riley is being boarded (and probably being a little boreded). He’s fine, eating well, getting his meds. Doc Esbenson thinks he should have better “numbers” for white blood cell count, though, so he will check with a specialist. They’re taking good care of Riley and report that he really, REALLY likes the Fancy Feast Extra Gravy style that we sent along with his prescription Science Diet food. We miss Riley and although we’ll be sad that vacation’s over, we’ll be glad to bring Riley home once we…

  • All Things Interesting - Dear Mom

    In Which I Has Yet Another Pifanee: Friends and Family Matter

    May 25, 2011 - By 

    So here we are, blogging again, are we? It seems the only times I bother to blog are those times when I’m traveling, when I get a burst of blogging energy and also take a lot of pictures which will have to be uploaded, culled, cropped, and commented on. This time, we’re back in Seattle getting ready for another run at Northwest FolkLife Festival after spending the first half of our trip in Port Angeles exploring the edges of Olympic National Park while living the luxurious high life at Colette’s Bed and Breakfast. As lazy-blogged previously via Twitter, we got…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Fixed the Delicious 500 Error Posting Problem (I Hope)

    May 25, 2011 - By 

    My benign neglect of all things Blogula is ending – at least that’s my intention. One little thing that’s been bugging me is a bug with Delicious.com’s filtering – they’ve recently started filtering out links saved via their otherwise excellent service that they identify as “malicious” or bad somehow, and replacing them with “Internal Server 500” errors. I finally tracked down the Postalicious plug-in’s blog to get a possible fix for this problem, or at least a workaround: burn the Delicious feed through Feedburner, and use THAT feed in the plug-in. As a side note, duh, when did Google buy…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Is this thing still on?

    May 25, 2011 - By 

    Yes, Ginny is a bad blogger. A bad, bad blogger; she never updates her blog. Or she lets automatic updates fill in the blanks from Twitter and leaves her broken del.icio.us reposter running. She’s on vacation and tinkering with a really old desktop blogging platform on her laptop called ‘ecto for windows’ that hasn’t been updated by the developer since about 2007. It would have been convenient to work offline, but oh, well, she’ll have to blog the normal way after all. More to follow.

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Seattlite Again, For A Few Days

    May 25, 2011 - By 

    On our way to Seattle after several days in Port Angeles. Friends, fun, and Folk Life, here we come. On our way in, had lunch with Tammy of Jackson St Books/Books on 7th in Hoquiam. We quaffed delicious Hoppy Bitch ale, and very tasty it was, too. Now sporting a spiffy knit cap Tammy made, I’m feeling tres fashionable and will enjoy wearing it when I’m back home too. It’s nice to be on the road to Seattle for the final leg of our vacation; the stop in Kalaloch was kind of a bust but another time we’ll stay somewhere…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-05-22

    May 22, 2011 - By 

    Dug out the "kitty garden" again, none of the perennials made it due to poor drainage. Removed about 8 gallons of horrid yellow clay. # Kitty Garden ready for more "good earth" and this year's batch of doomed perennials: phlox, coral bells, coriopsis http://twitpic.com/4y0skr # PS I hurt all over. # RT @HoardersPossum "RT @cluttercleaner: A bunch of people have asked, so here you go. Hoarders – Season 4 – Starts June 20th." YAYY! # There are wineries in Illinois and Michigan but somehow I don't think they'll be on the next season of #JamesMaysRoadtrip # For instance, can't see…