Monthly Archives February 2007

Punishment disproportionate to the crime?

I read a news story today in the Google News roundup about a women whose husband is currently serving his third tour of duty in Iraq that came into some trouble with the law down in Virginia. Seems she was cutoff twice in traffic (three kids in the car along with sister-in-law(?), 6 months pregnant [...] Read more »

A Couple Changes

Just to note a couple-three changes I’ve made to the blog.
First, the Archives that used to live in the sidebar as Categories and Monthly listings as with most blogs has been moved. You see, this blog, as I am in life, is not like most others despite the typical layout and besides that—I have [...] Read more »

New Stained Glass at Long Meadow Farms

It’s the middle of February here in Newport as it is everywhere else for that matter and with it comes that wonderful malady called Cabin Fever. However, that doesn’t stop the owner of Long Meadow Farms Quilts from getting ready for Spring by slowly reworking the interior of her shop with the essence of the [...] Read more »

Reading The New Yankee

I have finally closed the back cover of the “Snow Days” issue of Yankee Magazine after finding the time to sit down, take the magazine with it’s new layout in hand and read it cover to cover in one sitting. I realize this probably should have been done quite a few weeks ago but [...] Read more »

"Cold War II" Phrase Is Coined–A Sarcastic, Cynical Post

Warning—Heavy sarcasm ahead So here you go folks. What we’ve all been waiting for. The phrase; Cold War II, if not the actual turning of the tide (yet), has now been offered up to the public nice and solid. By an article in the New York Times no less.
The problem is, Cold War II could [...] Read more »

Commenter’s…Giving Something Back

While sitting at home dealing (once again) with another disability type flare up, I decided to bang around in my WP Admin and see to some daily cleaning in the back end of things. You know—Getting rid of “Spamments” checking the approved comments (Spam Karma 2) and glancing over the WP news on the Dashboard [...] Read more »

Performancing Acquired Again

Performancing, the people who brought you the ‘Performancing For Firefox‘ extension for the Firefox browser, the people who once brought you a great metrics program and did their best to help bloggers succeed, the company that was almost acquired by ‘PayPerPal‘ has now been acquired by Splash Press Media:
New York,NY — February 14th,2007 — SplashPress [...] Read more »

Life According To Charles Schultz

This came in an email this morning. A forward to my honey from her friends and then passed on to me. I am now passing it on to all of you. A very good thing to remember I do believe.

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz, the creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip. You [...] Read more »