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May 2002
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‘Well, Since You Asked…‘
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Wed 22 May 2002 12:26
by Kevin McGehee
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A rep from an independent surveying firm has left a message on my answering machine asking me to call back, toll-free, to tell them why I changed my domain provider (I don’t rightly recall whether he specified “host” or “registrar” or neither).
Until just a few months ago, McGeheeZone.com was registered with Network Solutions—now a division of VeriSign—and hosted at Interland, formerly Internet Communications. Over the years since I got this domain I became gradually dissatisfied with Internet Communications/Interland; most recently I had found I could not access my control panel because I didn’t have a password, and when I requested same they turned out to be sending it to an invalid e-mail address. I couldn’t even change the address they were using because to do so I needed—you guessed it—that password.
Now, I had kept Internet Communications updated on my e-mail address, and they were even forwarding my McGeheeZone.com e-mail to my then-current address, but when it became Interland they screwed up the records somehow. I simply had no way of maintaining my account, so I had no choice but to change hosts. So, I started looking around for new hosts to deal with. I finally settled on Super Servers, and arranged to have VeriSign make the necessary changes.
I should say, I tried to have VeriSign make the necessary changes. Finally, after weeks of waiting and getting no replies to my queries to VeriSign, I went looking for another registrar, found eNom, and fired VeriSign. Only then did I get a reply from VeriSign: “We are no longer your registrar, so we can’t change your host as requested.“
So the host change went through, and I notified Interland that I was no longer doing business with them. They replied that I would need to satisfy an unpaid invoice—which I never got because they had sent it to that invalid e-mail address. I told them, not in so many words, to eat it. There has been no further communication from Interland.
So—what do you suppose I’ll say to this survey outfit?
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Let Me Clarify
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Wed 22 May 2002 11:33
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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My wife said she thought my comment here meant I wasn't going to blog in this medium anymore at all. Nah. I just don't want to extend my Flyover-style activities throughout the day by trying to blog about current events -- except where such events just cannot be allowed to pass unremarked.
That said, Glenn Reynolds and the mob have some thoughts on what's simmering between India and Pakistan, the most recent of Glenn's posts being here.
My thoughts? Here's what I e-mailed the Professor:
#3 not only carries a measure of rationality, it argues strongly for India to stop hyping the threat of a Pakistan-started nuclear exchange.
The more Musharraf sees India getting its people worked up over the possibility that he, Musharraf, is going to try to nuke India, the more he's going to be wondering whether India isn't looking to launch a pre-emptive strike. The end result might just be both sides outsmarting themselves and doing God knows what kind of damage to the rest of the world.
(In re-reading that last, I realize it sounds kind of like what the disarmament types used to say about things like Reagan's "bombing starts in five minutes" joke. But somehow the dynamic of the U.S.-Soviet relationship never struck me as being quite dysfunctional enough for that, at least by the 1980s. Maybe sharing a long land border -- not to mention the particular history of the two countries -- makes it different where India and Pakistan are concerned.)
I wouldn't know how to handicap the odds of this thing going over the brink, simply because I don't know what kinds of behind-the-scenes contacts, if any, might be going on between Musharraf and his Indian counterpart to try to head it off. Does anybody know the answer to this?
Of course, it was those constant behind-the-scenes contacts that always headed off "bad things" between us and the Soviets, allowing rational thought to subvert panic. A truly rational head of state would ensure that such contacts are always available, for just such an emergency.
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About the Name
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Tue 21 May 2002 21:18
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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It's not misspelled. Sferics are those crackles of static that you hear on an AM radio (the same gizmo you use to listen to Rush Limbaugh) when there's a thunderstorm somewhere not too far away. The lightning puts out RF emissions that superimpose unmodulated noise over the dulcet tones of El Rushbo as he holds forth on whatever the heck he's holding forth about. So "blogosferics" means "blog noise." Sound appropriate to you?
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Come Back, Shame!
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Tue 21 May 2002 20:13
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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...'cause ya sure ain't to be found at Apoplexie & Filth stores these days. Fox News doesn't have it on the website at this exact minute, but there's a brouhaha a-brewing about risqué thong-style underwear being marketed to ten-year-old girls. Of course A&F has the right to offer these Childhood's End underthings for sale, and any parent sick enough to think their pre-pubescent li'l girls ought to be sex objects in training has the right to buy 'em.
And the normal majority has a right to refuse to ever again darken the door of an A&F store for as long as we're able to draw breath, and tell our daughters, them of us as has 'em, that they'll enter said store over our dead bodies and not a moment sooner.
This item reminds me of the San Diego high school prom uproar not so long ago, but even those who think teenage girls in thongs is not such a big deal might think otherwise about third-graders dressing similarly.
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Welcome Back, O Dreaded One
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Tue 21 May 2002 15:26
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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Dan Taylor has republished DPM, and the occasion for his linking Flyover is here. Literally no big deal. Oh well.
[UPDATE, 6:45 p.m. EDT] I just looked in at DPM again and saw that Dan, too, has given Flyover a permanent link on his blog. I guess I misinterpreted his comment in the above, which in the absence of a permalink led me to conclude he thought Flyover was okay but not worth looking in on with regularity.
Dan's permalinking Flyover also closes a loop, since his permanent link at InstaPundit is right above mine.
[UPDATE again, 7:34 p.m.] Dan's blog is titled "Dreaded Purple Master," and he has an amusing short-form explanation for the title here. I don't know about you, but it makes me curious about the long-form explanation he says is too involved for the web...
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This Look Is Much Better
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Tue 21 May 2002 14:32
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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Amazing how much I didn't know about maintaining a blog. In the course of finding a better look than that basic look Blogover started out with, I also discovered why I was missing so many of my archive pages. Got that fixed now too. Wasn't I just talking below about the general public's learning curve?
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Okay, Glenn, I’m sold
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Tue 21 May 2002 13:32
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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InstaPundit notes that one of cloning's most prominent foes, Francis Fukuyama, is at it again. If Fuki is the best the anti-cloning side has, then they might as well fold up the tent -- because I, who had been leaning against cloning, have been driven to agree, in the long run at least, with Prof. Reynolds.
All that said, I still think society has a right and an obligation to be cautious about bio-technology. People in the at-large who get their science news from the likes of CNN or USA Today can be counted on to know exactly where their torches and pitchforks are at any moment. The progress curve these days is well inside the general public's science learning curve, and too much arrogance among progress' advocates can be detrimental.
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