As previously noted in this space, I shall be attending the “Serenity Blogger Bonanza” advance screening of Serenity. I received a confirmation email this morning informing me that: To significantly increase your chances of getting into the screening, you MUST…
Mal: So Doug’s going to get to see the Philly advance screening of Serenity, huh? Jayne: Yup. Well, as long as his wife doesn’t go into labor that night. Me: Oh. Heck. Yeah. (For those not in the know, dig…
I have quite a few plugins that I use here at Literal Barrage, some of which have, at times, had a tendency to misbehave and make the site virtually unreachable. Without direct access to the mysql database underlying the site,…
Those in the know noted a couple of weeks ago that Microsoft had quietly added the capability to search blogs and feeds via MSN Search. For instance, if you prepend feed: to a search string, only results that appear in…
After a 60 hours + downtime, Literal Barrage is back on line. I’ve received no explanation from VizaWeb, nor do I think that I am likely to. In light of recent events, please leave your recommendations for reliable hosting with…
The SciFi channel has obviously been playing its cards right when it comes to its new Battlestar Galactica series. They are not only offering a high quality, well-written science fiction show, they are offering a high quality, well-written dramatic series…
I’ve long deplored the “www.” prefix for my websites. There’s very little point in it existing these days, unless you’re actually pointing to a server that goes by the name of “www.[domain name].[top level domain]”. I generally eschew the prefix…
I’ve done my share of ragging on MovableType as a blogging platform, however, with SixApart’s recent release of MT 3.2, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and give MT a test drive. Obviously, based upon my…
I came across mention of an interesting game in my daily flitting about the Internet[s] the other day, but slipped into that game link was a far more intriguing fact: Scott had stumbled across the game via Jeff Bridges’ site.…
Any website owner/operator could probably hold forth for quite a while solely on the subject of odd search phrases that lead people to their sites. I, for instance, have seen searches for “Thumb+Of+The+Punisher”, “incent d’onofrio” and “what religion is eartha…
