09 Feb 2006
2572

is the number of posts (not counting this one) made on MacRaven since I started this madness three years ago today. I've been through a name change (it started as the Raven Banner), two blogging tools (Radio and Blosxom), three URL's, four news aggregators (Radio, AmphetaDesk, Blagg and my current home rolled version) and several redesigns. I've dropped and added services (notably Blogrolling and AdWords), banners and bumper stickers.

There have been over 500 legitimate comments posted, and nearly 20,000 SPAM comments deleted.

I've not made a single cent from this endeavor - no donations or hits from AdWords. But that's OK - it was never the point.

The point was having a soapbox - and I've got one. As a wild guess from the log files, I'd guess that I've got about 250 regular readers. According to Technorati (when it's available, which is rare these days), 32 unique sites link here, some to individual posts but most of which have me blogrolled.

Getting off the soapbox for a minute, this enterprise has had a secondary effect that I have found most gratifying. I've made a lot of new friends, and reconnected with more than a few old and dear ones. And I have y'all to thank for that!

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Bird disease in flu-hit Nigeria

Is everybody ready for $8/doz. eggs? How 'bout a $5 McChicken? It's coming ...

AFP - As Nigeria scrambled to deal with Africa's first confirmed case of deadly bird flu, a farmer's representative said thousands of poultry had died of disease further north.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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Killing the lawyers

You know, I'm getting tired of folks knocking the legal professionals all the time! "Lawyer jokes" is one of the most popular search terms on the Internet, and sometimes they even turn it around, looking for "joke lawyers"! It's just not fair! I'll admit there are some bad eggs in this basket, but why should we let 98% of the lawyers give the other 2% a bad name?

Two more reasons to start closing some law schools...

(link) [U.S. News & World Report]

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First-grader suspended for sex harassment

There are times when I think "zero tolerance" is just a synonym for "zero sense".

A 6-year-old boy is getting a lesson on the meaning of sexual harassment long before he'll be able to spell it.

(link) [CNN.com]

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