Last Friday, I mentioned McGee's use of his own blog. Tonite, Alwin kicks in with his own example of how his blog acts as a personal knowledge repository.

Then my BlogMemory kicked in. The answer was in an old blink...

Nice green computing link, too, Al. Thanks.

11:30:22 PM  [] blah blah blah'd on this    [ blinked via ViewFromTheHeart ]

The usually polite, always glorious Heather Champ has been trying to deal with a bit of a dilemma recently. There have been a number of options suggested, including rotating the graphics with ruder versions, changes to mod_rewrite and .htaccess files, and so on...

I tried to visit the creep's site, pop-up windows and all, but was greeted with a notice that his bandwidth is only 20MB, and his ISP'll shut off his site until he coughs up more dough for the month. Bing! Sudden flash of massive stupidity Seems to me that replacing an image he's kyping with a multi-megabyte Photoshop image and then asking a few friends with large Internet pipe to pound his site on Rabbit Rabbit day until that site gets waxed for the month would be a very easy way to send a clear, but more subtle message... Which would have worked, except it only adds to the main problem here, that Heather's site is doing the serving of the images, as she gently pointed out in the comment. Stupid boy, G.

OK, time for some scripting then... Set up some shell scripts to pound on his site using Lynx or just http text requests, so the images aren't actually grabbed, but his quota can be pounded...

10:46:04 PM  [] blah blah blah'd on this    

The answer to my question earlier this week, that is. It apparently involved the sooner than expected loss of a T-1 line, lies from the phone company (surprise, surprise, surprise), and then the usual DNS propogation issues...

Welcome back, Conversant folks, and here's hoping that things settle back down soon. Glad everyone is still healthy and safe, in spite of it all.

7:26:00 PM  [] blah blah blah'd on this    

Greetings, Scripting News fans!

My email with DaveW had to do with some of the customs (based on my own incomplete understanding of them) of some of the Plains cultures of the, uh, first Americans. In particular, the practice of counting coup as it relates to the notion of a warrior's honor. "Honor was very important, and a part of that honor was the quality of mercy." A warrior who did not show some mercy would lack honor.

Killing enemies was not the main reason to go to war, instead warring was part of the ritual of the cultures. There were many ways to earn coup, and the manner held in highest regard was to ride alone against "an unwounded and fully armed enemy", and strike one of them with an open hand. This meant the warrior was close enough to have used a weapon, but instead chose not to. "Among the Plains cultures, it was far more honorable to count coup, than to kill the enemy."

The bravery of the enemy involved also was a factor in the coup. Wounded prisoners who fought bravely might be adopted into the tribe of their captors, while the body of a great slain foe might be brought back to camp, so the young boys could count coup on their bodies. It would follow that there is no honor to be gained in counting coup on a cowardly enemy...

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