PolarLava::Blog

I just read this article on Yahoo.  And the best I can say about it is that Stephen H. Galton needs to "get a life"!  I certainly don't have any love for lawyers of your ilk, but I do understand your need to protect your clients.  That's fine, but just because you get bagged on in a public forum and called a shyster is no reason start suing people.  Then again I guess it is if you're a bottom feeder!  You appear to be old enough to know the old adage "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me".  I'm sure your mother would be very proud of you today.  Nice job spunky.

I recently past 20,000 miles in my modern cycling career.  Because of work and family commitments, most of my riding for the past several years has been (and continues to be) done in the wee morning hours.  Nothing like being blasted out by the alarm clock at 4:15am to hit the road.  One of the good and bad things about that is the various critters that you get to share your ride with.  What follows is a rundown of what I generally see, the hazards the represent and some amusing encounters with them.

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I felt compelled to update this after this morning's ride added horses to the critter list!  …more

In an effort to get this "out there" I've packaged up what I've got and made it available on the PolarBlog releases page.  This is pretty much V1.0 barring any bug fix related changes.  The big hole would be documentation which is not done yet.  Most users should be able to get up and running though by following the instructions in the "INSTALL" file.  Happy blogging!

Okay, I've finally gotten back on track and wrote a basic DB installer for PolarBlog.  I'm working on some notes for a "quick start guide" for those who have asked to get going with things.  If you're interested drop me a line: kevinp AT polarlava.com.  I just need to work on the documentation and V1.0 will be released…finally!

I just read this this article over at Boing Boing and all I can say is "unbelievable"!  Nothing like having a publisher attempt to hijack/extort/strongarm your domain name from you because they did something stupid.  If you visit katie.com she has a very good explanation of her position on this whole situation and the inconvenience it has cause her.  And to Penguin Putnam all I can say is tough shit!  You don't own it and if Katie is smart, she won't sell it —at least not to you!  And although it seems that Katherine (Katie) Tarbox has a sad and unfortunate story to tell in the book Katie.com, why the hell did you agree to that name?  Why not call it "KatieT.com" which would point people's interest in it to your domain instead?  Pinheads.

8/6/2004
I just read this very interesting GrepLaw interview with Katie Jones regarding this whole situation.  Very interesting.  I've also appears that it's not Penguin Putnam that is doing the strongarming, but Katherine (Katie) Tarbox's lawyer, Parry Aftab.  Guess today is Scumbag Lawyer Day!

8/9/2004
Well, the latest news on this nonsense appears to be a major victory for Katie Jones.  Penguin Putnam has issued a press release stating that they will be changing the title of Katherine (Katie) Tarbox's book Katie.com to A Girl's Life Online.  Ah, the light goes on!  It still remains to be seen if Parry Aftab and her agenda disappear now also.