April 02, 2005
New Host
The hosting move is complete. Sorry for the delay. We'll be back to the Rat's usual bloviatings shortly.
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March 29, 2005
Technical Update
FYI. Just to let you know, we're close to ready to go. I need my old webhost to complete one thing to allow me to backup a database, and then we'll get moving. I anticipate we should be up and running in the new location by the weekend.
Not much in the way of posts until then though. Happily, I'll have enough bandwidth and space to make sure a second such move will be unnecessary for years to come. :)
PS. The technical problems were due to blogger error, or in, plain language: I'm an idiot.
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March 28, 2005
Grr...Install Not Going Well...More Later
That pretty well sums it up.
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March 21, 2005
Administrivia
As some of my regular visitors may know, the blog was unavailable from roughly 11 PM Saturday night until about 4 PM AM this morning.
This is not the first time I've encountered an outage with the host. Needless to say, I consider this to be unacceptable performance (Mrs. Rat also has a site with the same host, has encountered as many or more problems as I have and is contemplating a similar move) and am in the process of changing hosts.
What this may mean is that I may be down for 24-48 hours while I make the transition. Do not worry. The domain name will be the same, I'm just looking to make a major upgrade in reliability.
I'm here, and frankly, wild horses can't drag me away from here. :)
UPDATE: Clarification. Any such transition I will strive to make seamless if possible. Any such transition would also take place on a weekend, not a week day.
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March 19, 2005
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
with apologies to David Bowie
Made a couple of changes this morning to the site. I added a couple of sites to the blogroll, and added a short list that I hope continues to grow under the NSVLWC banner. NSVLWC is short for (Not So) Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, for the anagrammatically challenged.
Also, I've updated the email address. Worldnet's (hosting service) email service to me has been spotty, so I've added a new address to the fold.
As always email me with tips, comments, flames, questions or spam (because after all, I want to refinance my fully paid off house, have 8+" cut, be able to keep it up all night long, and get enough Oxycontin to overdose a sperm whale).
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March 15, 2005
Drinking Liberally
FYI. Contrary to the notice at left, Drinking Liberally is Wednesday this week, not Thursday. Same time, same place.
Sorry for the sporadic posts. Real life has intervened the past few days. Should be back to the normal pace tomorrow.
Peace.
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March 10, 2005
Thursday
It's a Thursday, which means yours truly will be attending Drinking Liberally (see the left panel, if interested in joining us). Posts will be light today as a result.
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March 08, 2005
Taxes
The Rat is taking the rest of the evening off. Time to go do my taxes, and see how much more of my money gets wasted on hillbilly armor in Iraq.
Look for a full night of blogging tomorrow.
Give a small prayer, sacrifice a small animal, whatever you like to do (or at least think about), for Big Dawg, who has more surgery coming.
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March 07, 2005
Rat Droppings
I'm slowly getting the site into shape. Comments are up, I'm slowly fattening up the blogroll. I'll be working on the style here in the coming weeks, and will add a bit more splash to the header.
Like some of you, I'm glued to college basketball for the next few weeks (March Madness and the conference championship week are the best month of sports out there). If I occasionally wander off topic, bear with me. I'm a sports fan as well as an activist.
In the comments, feel free to tell us of your passions, besides politics, of course.
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March 03, 2005
It's a Thursday
Which means this will be a light posting day. Also, I'm trying to get over a nasty head cold.
I'll try to get a couple up this afternoon if I can find a place with WiFi access. Otherwise, you'll hear more than you want from me tomorrow.
-Rat
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February 28, 2005
About the Desert Rat
For those who care, (not many, probably):
The Desert Rat is a 40 year old Phoenix area native. He is happily married, with 2 sons, 3 cats, 1 dog, and roughly 40 tropical fish.
A graduate of Arizona State University's Business College, the Rat's awareness began as a teenaged son of Goldwater Republicans. His political awakening began with Reagan's deliberate attacks on the poor and elderly in the first dark days of the Reagan years. As the Rat thought more about it, he realized his own moral beliefs on helping the less fortunate simply didn't mesh with Republican ideology even then, let alone now.
The Rat first voted for a Democrat in 1984 (Walter Mondale), and hasn't looked back since. He became politically active as a result of the Bush shenanigans of the runup to the War on Iraq, and is now an active Arizona Democrat.
The Rat obviously likes pets, which you'll see from time to time. He likes to read, write, watch movies, and is an avid computer/video gamer.
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February 25, 2005
Friday Evening Fishblogging
corydoras panda, common name, Panda cory catfish. Maximum length, roughly 2", these are young adults, roughly 1-1/2" long.
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February 24, 2005
Thursdays
FYI. Probably should have issued a warning last week, but as you can probably tell from the button on the left hand side bar, I'm involved with the Phoenix, AZ chapter of Drinking Liberally. The net result of this is that Thursdays will be light posting days.
Don't worry, I'll be loading up on plenty of snark the rest of the weekend to make up for it.
Coming Soon: Homefront: The War on Grandma, A Tragicomedy in Three Acts.
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February 22, 2005
State of the Blog, Redux
Comments are about 24 hours from being enabled in all their goodness.
Also, look for a splash of graphics, a style change, and a greatly expanded blogroll in the near future.
If you have something you'd like to see, by all means, shoot me an email at the link to the left.
Have a good evening.
-The Rat
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February 15, 2005
State of the Blog
Still working on getting things going. Be patient. I'll have my email addy up for feedback in a bit. Comments may take a bit longer, but we'll have those too.
More to come later today.
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February 09, 2005
Up and Running finally
I'll get it figured out yet. I should have it completely up and functional by the weekend.
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February 04, 2005
Trying Again
Test
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Tap! Tap!
Is this thing on?
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