Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock Last Friday, GOP vice presidential […]
“Today, I wrote about kittens. We’re in a gigantic financial crisis, everybody knows it, everybody is going crazy about it, everybody else is writing about it, so sometimes the best thing to do is write about kittens.” — Jon Carroll, quoted last month by his paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, on winning the 2009 Ernie […]
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock How do anyone know how much to give, to what to give to? Let’s label this, charity. Non-profit, that could be lots of things besides charities. My professional organization, can you call that a charity? A wing of it is a card-carrying (tax ID) non-profit and sponsors an annual scholarship […]
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 […]
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 […]
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock Over the decade (since February 1998) that we’ve lived in Northwest Arkansas, Ginny and Nick Masullo have thrown the most fantastic and memorable, surreal and comforting parties. Some involved costumes, a number had modest bonfires, and all had warmth, lots of food and a truly wide assortment of guests. The […]