
… my love is away, I’ve nothing more to say …
Test setup of my old (25+ yo) Winegard CA 9095 High gain UHF antenna with a Winegard AC 4990 Low Noise UHF Preamp, and an Alliance Tennarotor. I mounted this on a castiron staff for hanging baskets – I wasn’t going on the roof with this snow!
Google today announced plans to block Blog Comment Spam, on the theory that if they don’t give blog spam any visibility, if there is no value in spamming blogs, the practice will stop. Horay for Google!!!
News from UFMCC Headquarters …
January 7, 2005
Metropolitan Community Church’s relief efforts on behalf of victims of the tsunami were saluted on Al Franken’s national (US) radio talk show, The Al Franken Show.
Franken pointed out that, as of earlier this week, none of the “religious self-righteous websites” (his words) even mentioned the tsunami disaster (Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, etc — “while the United Church of Christ, Metropolitan Community Churches, and some reformed Jewish groups all had the disaster and disaster relief prominently displayed on their websites…”
The Al Franken Show is carried live on Air America Network on both Sirius and XM satellite radio, and on more than 50 radio stations across the U.S. Franken, a former star of Saturday Night Live, is the author of several books, including the New York Times #1 bestseller “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.”
Want to send some help to the survivors of the Tsunami?
I recommend you use Charity Navigator and
The Better Business Bureau National Information System
to help evaluate what charities to give to, based on ranking and percentage of donated money that is used for administration vs. money that is used for the program itself.
Its Christmas – what a wonderful relief from work!
I’m still struggling with this flu bug that nipped me last week – started with a nasty sore through and achy weakness, then shifted to a raspy unproductive cough with a constant nasal drip, then a fever … and now, it may actually be fading away!
We had a big deal going at work for the last month or so – the final stages of turning our website into a Portal – and the actual launch on Dec 20th. Of course, that came in the middle of the scheduled office party. But it went through without a flaw and everyone celebrated. Tho I didn’t feel much like celebration with this flug bug … ick!
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
P.O. Box 2247
New York, NY 10116-2247
(888) 392-0392
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Or, just go to the Apple website at http://www.apple.com/give/ and donate through one of the Charities they have linked to – or, you can even donate through the Itunes Music Store!
Revised Jan 4th, 2005 by Heather
the problem I reported Dec 29th with Domain Routing for Doctors Without Borders has apparently been fixed!
I have recently turned off UNREGISTERED comments to this site due to abuse by Comment Spammers.
Many weblogs have been hit by a plague of spammers trying to post “Spam comments”, that is, comments that are mostly links to sites offering goods and services that no one here is interested in. Comments to this website do not get seen by the public until I approve them, and frankly, I’m never going to approve so-called comments that are just full of links to casinos, poker-sites and various “medical” vendors.
Copied from RuPaul’s weblog
These remarks were made by Bill Moyers on receiving an award at the
7th Annual Walter Cronkite Faith & Freedom Award Gala,
October 20, 2004 at the Palace Hotel in New York city.