Some Military and Defense Contractor Documents
More links for the curious, none as gruesome as yesterday’s, thankfully. The Dixie Crows have some interesting papers from their last EW conference online here. Most interesting (to us) is this...
View ArticleJune Housekeeping
After battling a fairly unpleasant respiratory infection for a week, I’m (mostly) recovered and ready to get back to regular shenanigans. I apologize for the abbreviated, Atrios-like posts in recent...
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A Personal Spam Karma Record
Entropic Memes gets a lot of spam – comments, trackbacks, you name it, this site gets hit, and hit hard. Thankfully, Spam Karma takes mostly adequate care of things, allowing us all to get on with our...
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A New Personal Spam Karma Record
I really should know better than to brag (?) about the highest-scoring spam comment stopped by Spam Karma on this blog, as I did yesterday. Then, I was impressed by the stupidity of a guy dumb enough...
View ArticleJuly Housekeeping
It’s the first of the month, and you know what that means, right? The most boring post of the month is here – monthly housekeeping. Hey, you don’t have to read it if you don’t want to… Whether or not...
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Meta Monthly for September 2007
Yes, it’s the first weekday of the month (holiday notwithstanding), and that means it’s time for the once-a-month (unless I forget, whoops), highly-meta self-referential administrative post we all...
View ArticleLooking Back at September
As the world lived through the magical month of September, 2007 one day at a time, things were fairly busy here, as well. The usual month-in-review doesn’t have much this time around, so we’ll do...
View ArticleContribute to the Military
More than six months ago, I posted about the U.S. Army’s Field Manual FM 3-01.80 (27.5MB PDF!) and the minor inaccuracies contained therein. Attempts to get any kind of response from either the Air...
View ArticleHappy Birthday
No, it’s not my birthday – but it is three years since Entropic Memes was begun, and the beginning of the month; as such, instead of looking back at the past four weeks for this month’s roundup, I’ll...
View ArticleGZip – Saving the Internet, One Kilobyte at a Time
Entropic Memes runs on WordPress (behind a Squid cache), with a lot of performance enhancements stuck on. One of the more overlooked benefits is that of the lowly and humble GZip compression provided...
View ArticleIt Must be the Holiday Season
It can only be the holiday season when the two most popular posts of the last week – out of the 645 and counting – on this website are about why I hate DHL and the lyrics to ‘A Conservative Christmas’....
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A Look Back
Happy new year! It’s that time of month, when I usually look back at the previous month in a bit of highly meta statistic-mongering. Being the first of the year, some quick stats on last year here at...
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Server-Friendly WordPress: A Year With Squid
Entropic Memes is by no means a high-traffic site, even for a personal blog. However, it’s occasionally high-enough traffic that performance issues can occur, were steps not taken to prevent them. For...
View ArticleMaking a Difference (or, A Miracle on Blogosphere Street)
By one way of thinking, a blog like this one makes a measurable difference in the life of many of its readers – cynically, one could cite things like “wasted time” and “lost productivity”; less...
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Looking Back
Since all the other cool kids are doing – actually, have already done – their year-in-review posts, I figured that, sheep that I am, I’d follow suit with a quick wrap-up of the last year here on...
View ArticleWhat a Long, Strange Trip it’s Been
Five years ago – 29 October 2004 – was not a terribly exciting day in world history. Oh, there was fighting in Somalia, the European Union became a large step closer to happening, Yasser Arafat headed...
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Dust in the Wind
Apologies for not posting anything yesterday… and nothing of substance today. I’m a bit… distracted. I had to take my oldest cat to the vet yesterday, and, um… have a look for yourself: There is a mid...
View ArticleThis Endless Winter of the Heart
My heart lies broken, bleeding, silent; a watch with no mainspring, rusted and corroded into a useless and insignificant piece of scrap. My soul wails in torment; its sorrowed keening echoes unto...
View ArticleWord Count: Yah, Ugh
So, I finished the first draft of the main body of my first-ever novel last night. As I wrote about earlier, it was composed online in a (private) wiki. Each chapter was a separate entry, and there are...
View ArticleChickens. Also, My Novel
Today, I pimp my first and probably only novel. And if you don’t care about that, an inane observation about chickens. Acccording to Wikipedia, the chicken is the most-domesticated poultry – and...
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