Some professional (but impecunious) bloggers feel it is very important that there should be a regular, repeating cycle to the frequency of your blog articles to capture the hearts and minds of your tens of readers. Thankfully, I am a mere amateur so I will post when I feel like it and have prolonged periods of radio silence when I feel like it.

Bob Geldof wanted The Killers to appear at Live 8 at Hyde Park in London. The Killers themselves desperately wanted to take part. Harvey Goldsmith couldn’t find room to accommodate The Killers in the running order because of problems about the closing time and the provision of police/ambulance/London transport cover for a late ending at Hyde Park. Eventually, The Killers played one song on another band’s kit at Live 8 in sharp suits to save time on the changeover.

The Akismet spam filter included with WordPress.com means I am not troubled by comment spam on my blog at all, ever. However, I recently reviewed the spam sitting there all alone in quarantine. Most was inviting me to sample all sorts of delights describing all manner of different and very imaginative ways that a man and (wo)man can be joined together. One spam comment stood out head and shoulders above all others though with a blissfully simple but effective, marketing message. ...

So Typepad had plans to implement resilient disk storage but had an outage before the work was complete, which meant that users lost access to their treasured blogs as a consequence. Elsewhere del.ico.us celebrated the Yahoo! takeover by having an outage that also meant that users lost access to their bookmarks. I also noticed that the transaction log on the database used by Newsgator filled up over the weekend and the forums were also unavailable this morning. ...

I wanted to export my Newsgator feeds into OPML and experiment with SearchFox, who kindly gave me an account, to take part in the beta program. Only one slight problem, Newsgator doesn’t support OPML export. Strange but true.