weissblog

I finally broke down and spent a few bucks ( ) for a domain name for my wittle blog here. It’ll soon be found at weissblog.com and probably get a make over. I’m looking into different blogging systems. I’ve used Drupal on several websites now and love it, but I’m thinking it’s too robust for my needs here. I’ve looked over Movable Type a couple times. I’m interested in it because I see so many other cool looking blogs running it, but when I’ve played with it I never figured out how to do much with it. The current system, Greymatter, is nice but it’s got some problems which I don’t feel like fixing and since it’s no longer in active development, I doubt anyone else will either. Anyone have any suggestions? Let me know.

Okay, only those who are truely geek will even be interested in this one. I’ve been getting traffic on my MortgageKnowledgebase website from BlogShares.com
so I went there last night to see what exactly it was. Turns out it’s a fantasy stock market where shares of blogs are traded for B$ (blogshare dollars). It’s cool if you’re into that sort of deal. I got to looking and three of my sites were already listed there (MortgageKnowledgebase, ArkansasLawman,
and weissblog). I went ahead and signed up and bought all the
outstanding shares of MK and AL. It looks like it’ll be a fun little
game.

Lots of news to get caught up on. This will be the first of a couple posts today.

The following was taken from Google Blog:

If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.

We hope the web software community will quickly adopt this attribute and we're pleased that a number of blog software makers have already signed on:
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The last 36 hours or so have been…. interesting, to say the least. New Years eve and New Years night the people in my town have been acting like absolute fools. We’ve had people firing off rounds to celebrate the new year then hide when the see us, then lie when we call ‘em on it. :angry: Come on folks! It’s a simple law. No discharging of weapons inside city limits. And if the guns weren’t enough, let’s throw in massive amounts of booze, weed, fighting, a rented RV (with a cute lil’ driver) with some wantabe rap group. Then let’s surround the few officers that are actually out and then act surprised when the K-9 Officer turns the dog loose on your @ss. :confused: I know every town has it’s stupid people, but I really think we’re over quota.