Bob Hayes Online

Well, this turns out to be a hoax. I’m glad. And, the cracks about the obtuseness of those of us who fell for it aside, Ann’s evisceration of this foolish young “artist” is classic, and I endorse every word.

This is just too darn funny. Juvenile and sophomoric, but funny.

The site is reborn. My old site, www dot bobhayes dot net (damned if I will give them link love) was domain-jacked in late February by a Russian domain farmer/sniper. Unfortunately for anyone in the mood for a crusade against evil, it was my fault he could get the domain; I let an e-mail address get out of date and a credit card expiration notice was thus sent to nowhere-land. My ISP was sympathetic but firm: sorry, Bob.

The domain farmer has offered to resell it to me for $450; I have decided to pass on that. I’ve also warned the ISP that the domain sniper is continuing to offer my content buried underneath his Tramadol garbage; no response from anybody on that one yet.

If you have any links to www dot bobhayes dot net, I would appreciate if you would de-link them, and re-link this site, as it will now be my personal site. And if you are in the mood to spread some linky love, this would be as good a time as any. Thanks for the many expressions of sympathy I got during this irritating incident.

This blog site has the coolest design I have ever seen. I yearn for it. I want to kill its owner and steal it. No, more than that - I want to kidnap its owner, assimilate their living brain into my own to appropriate all their stylish glory, and then steal it.

OK, just kidding about the creepy snuff part. But it is a darn fine design.

Via ResurrectionSong, whose blogroll I was trawling when I spotted it.

when you find yourself irritated and outraged - outraged! - because someone who regularly 1000 words a day of free material - on top of laboriously creating and maintaining one of the funniest and freshest sites on the Intertube - doesn’t update with machine-like precision.

Usually James Lileks posts the daily Bleat at midnight. I look forward to it; it’s a high point of my day. Today he’s almost 50 minutes late, and still no sign of my rich, delicious, Bleaty goodness! Bastard. Probably out swanking with Hewitt and rock stars and Internet moguls, smoking fancy cigars, driving shiny limousines through puddles and splashing welfare mothers, caring nothing for the people like me whose huge contributions of, er, nothing, made his site the profit powerhouse that it is today. Damn you, Lileks! Damn you to Hell!

Or maybe I could get some perspective.

Nah. That’s crazy talk.

An oldie, but new to me: Jack Shafer looks into the Enquirer’s record and comes away impressed.

Interesting advice. I’m going to have to take some of it.

Can America ever truly be safe again? Hilarity from Iowahawk.

…over at the Speculist.

If you’ve noticed, most posts these days have a timestamp of 8 AM. The reason for that is simple - I don’t have time to blog every day, and I found in previous blog efforts of mine that the mental energy - “gotta write a post for today to keep things fresh” - is often not there, even if the time is. But I DO find myself finding lots of little items that would make great mini-posts, even when I don’t have time to blog them on the actual day.

Enter WordPress’ ability to future-date posts, which then don’t appear on the site until the timestamp is reached. I can write a mini-post (or even a substantial one, like “yesterday’s” D&D post) whenever the urge strikes or time allows, and slot it in, one a day, for a future date. If I do ten in one day, I don’t have one awesome day and then a huge blank expanse; I have ten posts in a row, covering a week and a half. Currently, I’m a week ahead in blogging, and can relax without worrying about whether the site will update. Barring someone dying in the interim between me writing about them (and with my luck, excoriating them for some horrid crime or flaw), it’s a great system. I do timely things when they’re timely, and evergreens otherwise.

(Is this how Glenn does it?)

The fine blog Evangelical Outpost makes it even better, because HE waits until Sunday for all his little-gem posts - he does one big roundup every Sunday night with 33 great items. In theory, by pirating and linking to a mere 25% of his choices, I could do an entirely daily blog with nothing but EO links, in a matter of minutes each week.

Not that I plan to do that. But I do plan to link to a lot of his posts, because they’re good posts about things I wouldn’t find on my own. And I thought I’d explain to you why you see so many EO links every once in a while (hint: because I’ve just jacked a bunch of his stuff), and explain to him why he sees the occasional trackback flurry.