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Daily Kos is (well, was) down, offline, hacked … whatever …

jss @ April 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Daily Kos, the biggest blog extent for Democratic politics, has been offline for about an hour as I type this; and if I were the type of blogger who lives for conspiracy theories, I would be blaming John McCain, AT&T, Verizon, Hillary Clinton, General Petraeus, the freeping loons at Free Republic … the list of [...]

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Potpourri (curmudgeonly thoughts for breakfast)

jss @ February 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Yes, I had to look that word up, which is a little shameful to someone who has done hard toime as a newspaper columnist. Because every once in a while, you don’t have that big, delicious idea in time for deadline, and you do a “potpourri” column, blended from all the ideas that weren’t quite [...]

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I worked …

jss @ December 17, 2007 # No Comment Yet

… in the telecommunications industry for a number of years … it was a great gig for a while, when I was running web sites for the “little” phone company in Connecticut, SNET. SNET was eaten by SBC shortly after I got there. They left us alone for a while, Connecticut not being especially noticeable [...]

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