Brick has been sporadic for some weeks. With luck, it will be more active in December.
Want an excuse? How about National Novel Writing Month. It’s 50,000 words to create a first draft of a novel (around a 200-page book) in 30 days. November is the one. My third try, and I went past 50,000 by [...]
Apparently, it’s not just the banks.
It’s not just the automakers.
Not just the newspapers.
This, from today’s Wall Street Journal:
Shoppers continue to pare back spending even on basic household staples, resulting in lower-than-expected sales for Procter & Gamble Co. and Colgate-Palmolive Co. The consumer-products giants are responding by raising prices to keep profits from plunging.”
Ellen Byron’s article [...]
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The 2009 deadline of a long-running column-writing contest, now open to bloggers, is less than a week away. Entries for the seven categories of the annual contest of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists need to have a postmark — or time-stamp — of Sunday, March 15.
Five of the categories are traditional: humor and general-interest [...]
Should I get back into more frequent or even regular Brick postings, it will be in part because of waking today to an image of the artistic caveman.
It may have been the last scene of an otherwise forgotten dream, or just an isolated visual, conjured just before sitting up.
The fellow chooses a charred stick from [...]
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock
An evaluation of the run-off candidates for mayor of Fayetteville, Arkansas. The election is Tuesday the 25th, and early voting is under way. Though not today: The courthouse is closed.
Brick never makes endorsements. Still, comments I’ve avoided should be made. The incumbent Dan Coody wants a third four-year term and faces [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
OK, kids, here’s a lesson — back up even files other entities are saving for you. Here’s what I learned from my service, Hosting Matters:
The primary drive on this server failed over the weekend, and all sites were restored [on Sept. 22] from the last error-free backup, from Aug 29, which would account for both [...]
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
That’s what I’d like to know. Sometime in the last couple of days, all of the Brick essays I published in September have disappeared. Poking around my Web site indicates that the problem originates not with WordPress but Hosting Matters, which operates my domain overall.
This posting serves first as a test for whomever might be [...]
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock
I’m not nearly old enough to say I’ve seen it all, or even seen a lot. But when I worked there, my college newspaper, The Stanford Daily, had a noisy Teletype for AP and UPI stories, complete with increasing numbers of bells to rate degrees of breaking news. My first full-time [...]
When you click from one Internet page to another and you get a message saying “we were unable to find” it, sometimes including the phrase Error 404, there’s a problem, Houston.
Brick is having just that issue. Please bear with me, and WordPress, while I try to figure it out, or get them to fix it [...]
If AARP is 50 this year, and it is, then it qualifies for AARP. That means AARP will be eligible for AARP membership with all its discounts and special offers.
The American Association of Retired Persons thus will send itself innumerable messages, electronically and postally, offering targeted news and special privileges (insurance, travel discounts). If only [...]
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