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Weekend picture blogging, 2nd Edition

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Alert readers may have noticed that I posted nothing yesterday. Oddly enough, the world continued to turn. I had a good reason for this neglect. Both of my offspring were here, and we were celebrating a couple of birthdays (mine recently past, and my younger son’s, soon to come). We went for an excursion aboard […]

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Yet more spam protection

Thursday, July 5, 2007

As I mentioned a few days ago I am being inundated with comment spam. It doesn’t appear on the blog, as it is blocked by a spam filter I installed some time ago. However, it does screw up my statistics, because each spam is counted as a unique visit. The raw numbers unnecessarily boost my […]

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Fortunate Son

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

John Fogerty sang about George Bush before there was a George Bush. It took me forever to find a decent video version. This does not appear to be lip synced and the sound is decent. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-5XgI244xo[/youtube] Seems like a fitting song for this 4th of July.

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The 4th in Groton

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

I have posted a page of pictures from the Groton Parade, which you can access at the link on the upper right hand side of the homepage. Sad to say, good parades are among the many indirect victims of television. Since people do not have to look to other folks in their community for entertainment […]

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Southern Justice

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

This reads like something out of the early Sixties South. Read it all, it’s chilling: In a small, still mostly segregated, section of rural Louisiana, an all white jury heard a series of white witnesses called by a white prosecutor testify in a courtroom overseen by a white judge in a trial of a fight […]

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A benefit for Groton residents

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

If I meet my own expectations, I will soon post something about the New London Day. How’s that for a surprise? I stopped off at the Groton Public Library to do a little research, as I expected to have to use a back issue of the Day to make a point, and as you may […]

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We get comments

Monday, July 2, 2007

To the casual observer, it may seem like I’m not getting many comments lately. I have of late been berated for my inability to discern the relative merits of music videos, but otherwise my readership has been largely silent-or so it may look. In fact, I have been fairly inundated with comments from diverse sources, […]

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Server problems

Sunday, July 1, 2007

In case you had trouble trying to access this site, the problem is now cleared up. At least it is to be hoped that it is. Recently my hosting company announced a new feature, which it suggested I enable. I dutifully did, with no ill effects, until today, when it caused a problem that made […]

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More comics

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Sorry if this is poor quality. I couldn’t find it on line, so I had to scan it. It doesn’t even come up on my comics widget. If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might be suspicious:

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Saturday Night Music

Friday, June 29, 2007

Last week the Lovin Spoonful, this week the Byrds. I’m going to make this a regular thing I guess. Here’s the Byrds as old geezers singing “Turn, Turn, Turn”: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNopQq5lWqQ[/youtube] And, because I couldn’t make up my mind, here’s another with an appearance by the author: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pum6MtyC3NA[/youtube]

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