That means my hosting switchover – coupled with a fresh design – is complete. So that would be good news. For anybody that cares, the hosting switch is just part of a consolidation of holdings for The Cap”n and Wife. There”s a number of sites and domains under our control nowadays, and I”m getting them [...]
Archive for January, 2006
Update your Wisdom RSS links
January 11th, 2006
Comments Off
For those of you who reach The Wisdom through RSS feeds (and why wouldn”t you?), please take a minute to update the RSS URLs you are using. If your current RSS URL looks like: www.capnken.com/wisdom/feeds/ then you”ll need to update it, lest you miss some Wisdom and suffer tremendous mental distress. The up-to-date feeds all [...]
Greedy old bitch
January 11th, 2006
Comments Off
The AJC is running the story (presented in full below because the AJC requires readers to register with a fake email address before they”ll display their content) today of an old woman in Buckhead who was swindled out of $773,081. Basically, she ran into a couple who said they had an assload of cash they”d [...]
How I dealt with the postal rate increase
January 10th, 2006
Comments Off
The AJC has a story this morning about how the postal rate increase took people by surprise yesterday. I”d link to the story, but the AJC makes you register a fake email address to read stories, so here”s the lead: Post office customers lined up to buy 2-cent stamps Monday, the first business day since [...]
OK, now am I committing a federal crime?
January 9th, 2006
Comments Off
The Wisdom”s unofficial in-house counsel TCL kept The Cap”n out of federal custody last week when he explained why offering free housing to a select group of hotties is likely not a federal crime. But today we learn that President Bush has signed a law making it a federal crime to “annoy” people online if [...]
Must have been a slow day at work
January 7th, 2006
Comments Off
Cruising The Wisdom”s logs, I noticed visitors Friday from IP addresses registered to the following organizations: – Wake County (N.C.) Public Schools: Searching for “Jesus and Pals” – St. Rita Catholic School (Dallas): Searching for “Les Miles” – North Carolina Research And Education Network: Searching for “Morgan Spurlock minimum wage” – Mississippi Department Of Information [...]
The wife’s new 8 gig iPod Mini
January 6th, 2006
Comments Off
This Christmas, the wife was dropping hints about how she might like a 4 gig iPod Nano as an upgrade from her current 4 gig iPod Mini. Seeing an opportunity to both bring a new gadget into the Wisdom household and knock out a big chunk of my Christmas budget for her (my new iPod [...]
Wal-Mart "racist" links & CNN – sensitivity makes Soledad stupid
January 6th, 2006
Comments Off
CNN this morning picked up on a story floating around the Internet about how a Planet of the Apes DVDs page at walmart.com suggests MLK and other black-interest titles in its list of “similar items”. Wal-Mart quickly removed the “offensive combinations” and had a flack say “we are heartsick that this happened and are currently [...]
Year-end football polls
January 5th, 2006
Comments Off
LSU”s finished No. 5 in the coaches” poll and No. 6 in the AP in the final polls released today. This was pretty much a slide-up move with the teams ranked 5 – 9 all losing in their bowls. If I wanted to pick a fight with the AP for jumping West Virginia ahead of [...]
