Blogging

New kid on the block

Robb Allen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:30:40 GMT

Reader Danno has started his own digs - SandCastle Scrolls.

I'm always supportive of the Blogging Arts and am happy when anyone wants to give it a shot.

He don't do it much

Robb Allen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:08:54 GMT

But when he does post, Breda's Mike does one hell of a job with it

I used to think an Uncle-lanche was something else

Robb Allen — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:03:10 GMT

Until I got a taste of a Tam-a-Lanche

A man could get a big head over numbers like that.

Now if there was only some way to keep those people coming back...

One of the added benefits of blogging

Robb Allen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:57:28 GMT

When your wife fails to call you and let you know how her doctor's appointment went, you can just read about it on her blog.

A girl, some guns, and a bit o' booze

Robb Allen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:42:22 GMT

Of course I'm going to add her to the blog roll.

Welcome Politics, Guns & Beer

Hat Tip Uncle, who is running out of Heller Puns faster than Barack Ho Chi Minh Obama is running out of principles to stand on.

I'm getting so old I forgot my own birthday

Robb Allen — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:50:30 GMT

May 11th marked 4 years of Sharp as a Marble.

Happy Blog-Birthday to me!

If you need gift ideas, here and here.

Blogging was tough

Robb Allen — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:45:35 GMT

Because there was only two outlets in the room. Uncle got the one by the desk.

Interesting observation

Robb Allen — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:23:14 GMT

Every here and there I'll be directed to a blog that I used to read, but stopped because it became too popular and the comments were no longer worth while.

Each time I go back, I notice the habit of the commenters to try to be "FIRST!", which only proves my point.

Trackbacks shut down for a while

Robb Allen — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:30:20 GMT

Literally getting hundreds of thousands of trackback spam a day, so I've shut 'em down for a while until I can build some better tracking tools, which given the amount of time I have to putz with Subtext, should be sometime next century.

Busy busy busy, and showing off

Robb Allen — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:49:43 GMT

I admit I've been busier than paramedics treating fainting victims at an Obama rally, so I'm sorry the posting has been so sparse. I've got a major project at work that keeps changing every time I turn around but at least we've had our first build and it didn't completely crash. Unfortunately, in the corporate IT environment, they ask you how long a project should take. You tell them 6 months, and they say "Fantastic! I'll mark it on the calendar for next week". So you have to turn things in well ahead of when they're ready.

Second, so much is happening in the gun world that I've simply fallen behind. There are letters to write to my representatives and I'm cursing myself that I've not gotten those done. Microstamping and Ammunition Encoding on the national level and "assault rifle bans" here in my home state. All of these require my attention.

I'm still having a rather decent discussion with an anti over here. I have another comment waiting to be approved, but the discussion is calm and reasoned and I at least have Brandon admitting he can only "feel" his way through the issue. Someone near him needs to take him shooting.

The Mrs' laptop hard drive died a horrible, instant death yesterday. As in "Sorry, you can't even read from this drive any more" type failure. I just backed up her documents and mail on Saturday. Lucky me. So that took up a large chunk of my day yesterday.

However, there is one thing I've been working on that I'm really proud of. Some of you might not know it, but Sharp as a Marble's design is 100% mine. I did all the graphic work from the notebook paper, the "stains", the tape and torn paper rings on the header, etc. I'm quite adept with Photoshop and it's something I enjoy. So when I saw this idea for a logo for the American Conservative Party over at Traction Control, I had to run with it.

I am proud to say that it has been adopted by the ACP!

Bill quick never thought much when he coined the phrase "Blogosphere", so here's hoping that some day I can tell my kids that I designed the logo for a major political party!