This is one of a bunch of political items I didn’t get around to doing when the story was fresh.
This is the sort of rhetoric that some eat up like ice cream, but gives others the chills. Neither the election, nor Iraq, nor the economy are in the hands of God. He’s got control over things like earthquakes and meteors colliding with Earth.
Which K is this? Hover the mouse pointer over the picture to see who it is.
What can I do to get out of my blogging funk? Hmm…. let me think. What did I do last time? Oh! I know!
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Barack Obama may or may not still be smoking cigarettes. If he isn’t, I’m sure he’s tempted to go back to them. This photo has circulated for months. It makes him look like a black Humphrey Bogart, don’t you think?
The photo is obviously a fake, because the mole on the left side of his nose is missing. This photo was the source material for the hoax.
I realize that I’ve lost some blogging energy and haven’t posted much lately, and what there is has perhaps very little interest to most. I’m working on some things that will hopefully be more entertaining to you. But there are gutters to clean — again — and leaves to rake, and guests are coming over today then we’re all going out to dinner.
I just received the notice below from my Web hosting service. If you’re reading this, then you’re unaffected, and you don’t care. If you aren’t reading this you should be worried!
Connectivity Between Cogent (Our Bandwidth provider) and Sprint
If you are having issues connecting to your website, or any other website hosted by IPOWER, this alert will provide some information to you.
Yesterday, 30th October, 2008, a press release was put out notifying the industry that Sprint-Nextel had severed its internet connection to Cogent (the provider of bandwidth for IPOWER), resulting in the inability of Sprint-Nextel’s customers to connect to any website that gains bandwidth from Cogent.
As our datacenters utilize Cogent to provide bandwidth, unfortunately, our customers are affected.
We’ve been in contact with our provider, who says they are attempting to work with Sprint to resolve this issue.
Our Network Operations team has begun investigating a way to get around this block, to get our customers back viewing their websites. However, it is uncertain at this time, if that will be possible.
For more details on what happened, and why, the press release can be found here: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=cogent+sprint&btnG=Search+News
We appreciate your patience while we try to resolve this. While we would love to assist you, there’s little to nothing we can do in this situation, aside from relay the message to our provider that our customers are having issues. Please remain patient, and we will provide more information when it becomes available.
– 10/31/08 at 10:11 ET
