...in the post, "Don't read this post (Revised)" I made a couple of mistakes in one example I used in that post, so I corrected them and took the opportunity to insert a revision. Since the post is so heavily revised, please look at it again, and comment appropriately. Thank you.
...anybody ever shot one of these, or been at the range next to someone who did?
Hard to believe the price. Weird looking pistol, but might make a decent trainer.
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UPDATE: 060607 0750 PDT: The EllTee sent me a review. Fuggeddabboudditt. Poor quality firearm. Maybe Mr. Completely could find one cheap and put a scope on it for the occasional show and tell at a bowling pin match, but I won't bother.
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...and this time it's not just me and my three-year-old machine, either.
No less a blogger than Kim DuToit has had the same problems.
Booger, aka, dba Blogger, seems to have flushed everyone's old Blogger account page, demanding in a not-so-subtle way that we all sign up with Google. I don't like what gOggle did when they KowTow-ed to Commie China, and besides that, everything they do that ISN'T related to their search engine turns to crap, and I don't trust them NOT to turn all of our past browser searches over to the gummint at some point (which point might very well have already passed, given the propensity for this gummint to snoop on everyone), so it was with severe reservations that I converted my old Blogger blog, Curmudgeon Call, to the new system, and doing that was supposed to enroll me in the "new" Blogger.
Well, it did. For one evening. Then it quit again.
Free blogs. I guess you get what you pay for.
Does anyone else have problems commenting on Blogger sites? When I try to comment, and use my Blogger account by checking the "Blogger/Google" button, it tells me it doesn't know my password. If I switch to the "other" or "anonymous" buttons, it doesn't post the comment.
Perhaps Blogger has lost my password, or perhaps the Google/Blogger partnership has dissolved.
Been this way for two days now.
Anyone?
All you bloggers who use the Blogger (blogspot.com) blogging service:
Ever since Blogger integrated with Google Accounts for verification of comments, it has been difficult to comment on Blogger blogs.
Now, it's impossible, because Google Accounts is FUBAR, and Blogger has the Google Accounts first in line to be checked, so even though I have a Blogger account, I can't comment because I don't have a Google account (and they're broken anyway).
Unless you relish having broken comments, dump the authentication, go to Haloscan, or better yet, pay for your damn blog engine and get a decent one.
Remember, while "free is a very good price", you "get what you pay for".
Don't suffer through this one. Change your blog to a pay site like TypePad while you still can. I suspect Blogger is allowing these issues to fester because they want to start charging for their service, and what better way to get you to pay could there be than wrecking the service, then building a decent pay site, and then offering you the choice of crap or quality?
Oh, and if any Blogger management weenies read this, don't get your panties in a wad, I know EXACTLY what constitutes the torts of slander and illegal secondary boycott, and I live in a Federal District where the judges LOVE to have the little guy come in an defend himself against the giants...
Over at Paratus, the preparation weblog, I've discussed AC power production via battery-inverter setups. I go through the theory of operation, the scaling of equipment, and at the end, put together an actual set.
If you've been on the short end of power delivery, such as Mr. Completely or Phil at Random Nuclear Strikes have (and I was, also), you should be very interested in this article.
Battery-inverter sets, they are like guns, they are there when you need them...but they are QUIET!
...at Resistance is Futile, on the topic of the United Nations and who we should appoint to be Ambassador now that our fine Ambassador John Bolton's nomination is being refused by the (D)onks.
and....
at Anarchangel, on the subject of the militarization of the police in this nation. Note in this one the especially gung-ho, pro police comment by Glenn B, who is, as you will guess, a cop of the "new persuasion" (I'm a cop of the "old persuasion").
I commented in both of these threads. With some bloggers despairing of a stilling of the voice of the Right in the Blogosphere, I think that a read of these two threads will put the lie to THAT dirge.
Some additions, one deletion. Now stay off my butt about how the blogroll is organized. I don't put the socks in my sock drawer in neat rows, either.
...over at Spank that Donkey blog. Yours truly has a few contributions there.
Yanno, I was initially opposed to the idea of this Carnival, seeing it as just another form of linky-love, which most do for ego-strokes and not serious reasons of improving their writing and communication.
I've changed my mind. The reason is simple: when one has an important message to get out (Saving the Second, and/or improving your knowledge of all things gunny), collectivism really works.
Yep, 'tis better to be in a gaggle than be outside one when it comes to passing the word. Probably the only valid exception to my general rule that collectivism sucks, but there it is.
If you've sharp eyes, you will notice that I've deleted all but one of the dozen photo albums I used to carry here. I'll put up new albums as I shoot new and blog-worthy photos, but photos are bandwidth hogs. TypePad doesn't charge me for the extra bandwidth, sometimes nine times my allotment, but it's unfair to them to keep the albums so long after they have seen the light of day.
The one I did keep memorializes the final return from Iraq of the late Sgt. Adam Plumondore. The posts about that somber affair are in the archives of February 2005 up to March 1, 2005.
