Since GitM is now larger than 500 pages, Atomz will no longer search the site for free. Can anyone out there recommend any good free search applications? Update: With help from Kestrel’s Nest, I’ve solved the problem for the time being. Thanks, Eric (and sorry about that tooth.)
Category: Blog Nation
Fooptastic.
Wendell Wittler, formerly the inimitable One Swell Foop, returns to the blogging ranks. Welcome back! (Via Now This.)
Lake Effects-Based Ops.
Lake Effect returns from a two-month hiatus with some interesting reflections on the Iraq war. Well-worth reading, as always.
Deepest Condolences.
Deepest condolences go out to Missy on the recent and tragic loss of her father. Tears may blind the eyes, but the soul is not deceived. In this world, even winter ain’t what it seems. My thoughts are with you at this difficult time.
Buy! Buy! No, wait…Sell! Sell!
Found in the referrer logs today: Blogshares, a Hollywood Stock Exchange-like site for blog investments. Unfortunately, at the moment I appear to be worth nothing, although I think that’s mainly due to a URL discrepancy. So, hey, I’ve got growth potential.
The Revolution will be Googlized.
Google buys Pyra(!) (First seen at LinkMachineGo.) Congrats to the Blogger crew [or should I say cabal? (3/28)] If weblogs aren’t mainstream enough already, they will be in very short order.
Repeat Engagement.
Congrats in Order.
Congratulations to my friend Jon, whose satellite successfully launched yesterday evening. Also, congrats to Mike (and Dineen) of What’s On It for Me? on their forthcoming first child. Usually I would bemoan more GOP voters coming into the world, but I’ll definitely make an exception in this case.
2003 Comings and Goings.
Genehack returns to his former digs, Do You Feel Loved? closes up shop, and Absolute Piffle warns of an extended break (Congrats on the adoptions.) Also, happy blogdays (belated, in CiB’s case) to Caught in Between, WebGoddess, and Dumbmonkey. Keep up the great work, y’all.
Tip of the Iceberg.
On the advice of Eric at Kestrel’s Nest (in the comments here), I added my Sitemeter stat-watcher to all the archived pages of this blog, as well as all the additional stuff over at the main page. Turns out I was way off about the stats around here. The blog (including old posts) and the library entries pull six times as many hits as I thought I was getting (a fact that’s gotten me scrambling to update many of the book reviews – a lot of ’em were written in haste over five years ago…and it shows.) Granted these aren’t long-time readers so much as curious google-searchers, but I was surprised nonetheless. Particularly surprising is how many hits this rather substandard page on David Halberstam gets…there’s not really any interesting information on it, but it gets almost as many hits as this blog. Bizarre. At any rate, thanks for the head’s up, Eric.