Category: Internet

I am moving my weblog to Movable Type. Things are in transition right now, so I’ll be updating both my Blogger site and my new Movable Type site.

I am extending my hiatus to another week. I should be back by Memorial Day.

Haloscan is down again: I’m working on the server scripts so for around 1 hour comments will be unavailable. That was definitely more than an hour ago. I don’t understand why they go down for maintainence so often. I’ll probably regret this later, but because of these frequent outages of the comments, I was thinking… Continue reading Haloscan and Donations

Now Haloscan has restored the missing comments from March 13-14, but in the process lost the comments since. This is getting really frustrating. Here is what the Haloscan admins say: Yes, we’ve noticed that a few user accounts didn’t sync properly with the new comments and I’m restoring them right this moment. Every comment will… Continue reading Haloscan Again

Haloscan has not been reliable as a commenting system recently. They have too much down time for “maintenance”. Same thing today: Server work in progress We’re doing some routine maintenance on the server. We will have the commenting restored later today. Update: We’ve restored the commenting but a couple of the most recent posts from… Continue reading Haloscan Acting Up Again

In the past two months, the rank of this blog on Google search results has improved from #19 to #9 for Procrastination, #2 to #1 for Zack Ajmal, and from #56 to #11 for Zack. In other blog news, I should pass 6,000 unique visitors and 8,000 page views some time tomorrow. In addition to… Continue reading Blog Talk

The Talking Dog has been going through the massive project of commenting on every single one of the links on his blogroll, the Dog Run, and assigning a dog breed to each one. His blogroll is long and extensive and his comments have been pithy and useful. I have been introduced to quite a lot… Continue reading Talking Dog’s Dog Run

A Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic was murdered by a man who was fooled by the famous Nigerian email scam. A notorious e-mail scam has resulted in the murder of a Nigerian diplomat in the Czech Republic. Fifty-year-old Michael Lekara Wayid, Nigeria’s consul in the Czech Republic, was shot dead by an unidentified 72-year-old… Continue reading Nigerian 419 scam takes a life

Some time on friday, the 5000th “unique visitor” read my blog. That’s after approximately 3 months of making the blog public.

I hope you like my weblog. Please look at the archives as well and visit again. Thanks, Will Femia of MSNBC Weblog Central for putting me on the Best of Blogs list. Here are some of my posts that you might be interested in reading: Political Islam and Pakistan Wahabis/Salafis (1, 2, and 3). Muslims,… Continue reading Welcome, MSNBC Readers