Category: Blog Stuff

<center><a href="http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_of_the_top_6751_8750_blog.php"><img alt="The 2005 Weblog Awards" src="http://nowherethoughts.net/wa_finalist150.jpg" /></a></center><br />n<br />nYou can go vote for me at <a href="http://weblogawards.org/2005/12/best_of_the_top_6751_8750_blog.php">The Weblog Awards: Best of the Top 6751 – 8750 Blogs Archive</a>. You can vote every day until the 15th of December. I will also leave the above graphic on my sidebar with a link to the poll…

You don't get anywhere in this world without a little self promotion so when I saw <a href="http://weblogawards.org/">The Weblog Awards</a> I decided to nominate, guess who, myself. The only category I nominated myself in was based on the <a href="http://www.truthlaidbear.com/ecosystem.php">Ecosystem</a> and I fell on the Ecosystem in the category of Best of the Top 6751…

The results are in on Wulfgar's Montana weblog awards.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://wulfgar.typepad.com/a_chicken_is_not_pillage/2005/11/montana_weblog_.html">Montana Weblog Awards – RESULTS!</a><br />n<br />nFirst off a thanks to Wulfgar for pulling this together.<br />n<br />nSecond I would like top thank everyone that voted, and every on that voted for my Blog. I won in:<br />n<br />nMost Exemplifies a Montana Lifestyle.<br />n<br…

An interesting thing is happening over at <a href="http://wulfgar.typepad.com/a_chicken_is_not_pillage/2005/11/a_polling.html">Wulfgar's Place</a>. He has decided to do an unofficial, low-tech Montana blogsphere poll.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Here's what I propose. I will offer several categories for voting, with no established candidates. Voting can be public or anonymous, in comments or by email. If you wish to email your responses,…

<b>Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain</b><br />n<br />nI had never heard of this quote before now but I have lived by this philosophy for years.

<blockquote>I'm certainly not a lawyer, but as a widely published writer, I'm well aware that legal precedent holds that if you moderate, edit, or prune comments on your online forum — or blog — in any way at all then you stop being able to defend yourself as a common carrier and become a publisher…

I <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/08/blog_sells_for.html">read</a> that a blogger, Jeremy Wright, has sold his blog, <a href="http://www.wealthyblogger.com/">Wealthy Blogger</a>, for $2000. I wonder how much I could get for mine?<br />n<br />nI probable couldn't get a thin dime but the concept of people starting to sell their blog is very interesting. Makes a person wonder what might happen in…

I just had to share a recent picture of my favorite cat, CP. <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/1152-Friday-Cat-Blogging.html#extended">Continue reading "Friday Cat Blogging"</a>

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/microsoft_security_dc">Microsoft sees 3 'critical' Windows security flaws</a><br />n<br />nJust a reminder to patch that flawed piece of software called Windows. The safety and security of your computer is at risk.<br />n<br />nNOTE: Since I use Linux on my computer this doesn't concern me.<br />n<br />n<b>Security gives way to conspiracy. William Shakespeare</b>

I was tagged for a meme by <a href="http://www.dmerriman.dyndns.org/blog/archives/93">Dmerriman</a> a while ago and finally got around to doing it.<br />n<br />n<b>Five Light Reads</b><br />n<br />nAny of the Tom Clancy books (Not the stupid op center bunch though)<br />nAny David Weber book<br />n<br />n<b>Five Reads that Make Me Think</b><br />n<br />nCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br…