Monthly Archives: September 2005
Good Morning
| September 29, 2005 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
The plan is to drive down to my sister’s in Newmarket. Stay overnight and then kidnap my nephew for the weekend up here. He’s 10, he likes to think of it as an adventure.
Interversity.Org | A Bureaucracy-Free Zone
| September 29, 2005 | Posted by ThatGrrl at StumbleUpon under Writing |
http://interversity.org/
Not sure how to describe it really, just wandered in. It’s interesting. Certainly worth a look.
Error Message Generator
| September 29, 2005 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
This link comes from HappyandBlue.
the 404 error page webring
| September 28, 2005 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Another 404 thing. I’m really just adding it here so I can find it again.
Books for Katrina
| September 28, 2005 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
Ephemera Bound Publishing & Books for Katrina
Whether or not you are a member of BookCrossing, you can ship books down to Texas for those who lost their books due to Katrina.
Wallflower Grrls
| September 28, 2005 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
I started my ring. I think I even fiddled with the code long enough that it really works.
I’m amazed too. 
The Women Authors Network Directory
| September 28, 2005 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
The WAND – The Women Authors Network Directory
I might join this one. I have come across other women writer type groups. If this one is active it would be interesting. It’s small but has a nice variety of writers.
Gladstone House
| September 28, 2005 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
This is where CanZine will be in Toronto on October 30th. I really am hoping to go. I did go to one of these things years ago when I still lived in the GTA, at the edges of Scarborough. Now it’s so far from here. It would be a great weekend away if I could afford a weekend away. But, the reality is that parking is $6 and that made me blink twice. You get so used to living out in the middle of nowhere, it grows on you.
The Places to be Webringged
| September 28, 2005 | Posted by thatgrrl under Uncategorized |
These are the ones I could find, webring hosts. There are two which most interest me: alt-webring and CrickRock. But here is the list for you to procrastinate over.
CrickRock It looks nice and they say they cleaned up a lot of dead rings. That in itself perked my interest. Other bigger services are full of deadwood/ dead rings.
Ringsurf was (maybe still is) offering dead rings out as adoptable but I didn’t have much luck with their software. I gave up on rings I tried to start there (more than a year ago) cause the HTML was not working for me somehow.
WebRing I actually started with WebRing this morning. I thought I would do a ring there cause they are sizeable and likely my ring would be found on their server as opposed to lesser known host. But, I was not allowed to start a ring there. According to WebRing I am not experienced enough to run a ring. (You must be an active member of at least 2 rings, which I am actually.) However, what WebRing does not know is that I’ve been a member of several rings over the years and I have run a ring through their service before, during and after they were a part of Yahoo. Anyway, I won’t host a ring where I’m not wanted. *pathetic sniffle, sob*
Lord of the Rings This one had a different name in the Dmoz listing but I changed it cause they seem to have gone with this name. Not sure if they will be told to change it at a later date. It doesn’t seem very active, the webrings in the directory weren’t that interesting, to me at least. Also, the directory layout is a copy of CrickRock and alt-webring but both of those services appear better moderated.
Ringo Possibly abandoned. The rings I tried to look at were not active. Two out of three never loaded at all and the third had zero sites in the ring, not even a site for the ring owner. So, I will leave this one to gather dust bunnies.
Bravenet’s Webrings are just kind of clunky and spammy. WebRing itself isn’t much better as far as spam. But, though I want to like Bravenet I always end up choosing not to use them. There is the whole thing about it being free and not expecting something free to come without some disadvantages (ads) but if you can find a free service without the blunky (blocky/ clunky) ads, which would you choose?
alt-webring runs on Ringlink for one thing. Ringlink is webring software offered free. But, you have to have a domain which lets you use CGI to run the ring from. So, if you have a blog on your domain you can also host your own ring, without any of these free hosting services. But, I don’t have that option presently. I like alt-webring anyway, it’s simple and clean looking and the rings in the directory look interesting.
Blog Commenting
For several months I have blissfully left this blog without commenting available. I did this cause I got tired of filtering out spam and then I had someone posting nonsense and another one who was posting just to prove he/ she knew more curse words than anyone else did. I was not impressed and I really did not want to waste my time teaching better manners to the masses.
Today, I turned comments back on. In a small space of time I’ve had three comments. One per entry. Each has been spam. The comments are barely the tiniest bit relevant if you stretch your mind and try to find some relevance. People, I don’t need this. I don’t care what you’re spamming, I don’t want to waste time filtering out the hideous mess.
So, as requested, I will leave comments as an option. But, I will make it a requirement that you are registered with Blogger. That should get rid of some of you. I don’t even mean that in a nice way. If you post garbage to someone’s blog you are a jerk, plain and simple. It is using people. Using the work, time and creativity which I put into this web-ness. I find that obnoxious behaviour. So, to be blunt, piss off.
Note: Self promotion is not the same as spamming. If you make a relevant post or a friendly hello and want to add a link back to your own blog or site that is fine. But don’t expect me to leave posts that are purely meant as spam here.