A cricket bat!
Twelve years, and four psychiatrists!
Four?
I kept biting them!
Why?
They said you weren't real.

Blograker

The trouble spreads in episode 11 of The Blogfather: Blograker. Today's episode guest stars Jennifer, Tiger, Kevin, and, um, also Kevin.

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Any Colour, So Long As It's Red

Red Hat, makers of Pixy Misa's preferred Linux distribution, have countersued SCO. (I discussed SCO and their evil irrelevance here.) They are not only requesting a declaratory judgement of non-infringement of copyright and trade secrets, but have also alleged false advertising, deceptive trade practices, unfair competition, tortious interference and trade libel and disparagement. That, as Tiger* can tell you, is a lawyer's way of calling SCO a bunch of lying litigious shitweasels.

It will be very interesting to see how this works out.

*Pinging a randomly selected link rather than the main page just to see what happens on the ecosystem.

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The Real Internet

Well, I've put in my application to move my ADSL service from my current, profoundly sucky, provider to a new and hopefully less sucky one. At the new ISP, I'll have full unrestricted internet access - no offpeak speed limits, no "transparent" proxies that repeatedly drop my connections, a real static IP address, and no blocked ports so I can run my own web and mail servers at home. Upload speeds will go up from 256kb/s to 512kb/s.

Yay!

Also, download costs drop from $150 to $6 per gigabyte, which will be nice.

And with any luck I won't have to deal with constant routing screwups on the weekend. Six more days in purgatory...

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Gno Gnat?

The Bleat has gone blat. James Lileks's server has crashed and taken the whole site out.

Remember, boys and girls, always backup your work! Fortunately for us all, The Bleat is backed up and will return soon.

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Moving Pictures

Here in one convenient location you can find all of my movies... Such as they are. The management takes no responsibility for - well, for anything.

First, the short features:

Susie Loves Pixy
Frnak Hates Pixy
Susie and the Ghost
Susie vs. The Aliens

Then, the epic masterpiece, The Blogfather:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6: Blogfather Returns (a.k.a. Susie Conquers the Martians)
Part 7: Blogfather and Robin
Part 8: Blogfather Forever
Part 9: Live and Let Blog
Part 10: Blogfinger
Part 11: Blograker
Part 12: You Only Blog Twice
Part 13: For Your Blog Only
Part 14: Doctor Blog
Part 16: The Blogging Daylights
Part 17: License to Blog
Part 380: Fragulate This!

All characters in these tales are fictitious, and any resemblence to people in the real world is purely the result of your own befuddlement. That's our story anyway, and we're sticking to it.

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Blogfinger

Someone stop me! Help!

The Blogfather episode 10, Blogfinger, is now available.

I think I'd better take my medicine now...

[I wonder if we should tell Glenn Reynolds... He is, after all, the star of the show. Well, co-star, after Susie. And you, Pixy. And Frnak and the cast of herons. And the Moon Men. Well, he did appear in one scene. Before being upstaged by his robot double. So maybe we shouldn't tell him. — Ed.]

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Live and Let Blog

Good evening, and welcome to Pixy Misa's Theatre of the Absurd. Tonight's feature, flown in by special arrangment from southern Lemuria, is the little known Frnak Capra masterpiece, Live and Let Blog. Please do not adjust your sets, it's meant to look that way.

(Warning: This is episode 9 in the continuing story of The Blogfather. If you are confused, you should first watch the earlier works, to be found here, here, here, and here. If you are still confused after that, we suggest that you give up blogging and start a new life as a potato farmer. We know it worked for us.)

[No one saw that, did they? Good. — Ed.]

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Blogfather Forever

Well, I missed the deadline for today's episode, so I'll just abuse the power of the Internet for a few minutes and pretend I'm in a different time zone... There, done.

Now sit back and thrill in The Blogfather episode 8: Blogfather Forever

Oh, and in case you hadn't guessed, that last line is a Susie original. Limited edition replica fonts are available at Practical Penumbra.

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Foobie Bletch

Well, it was my turn for a twelve-hour day at work today. Blah. Blah fooie. That was no fun at all.

But after I've had a nap, I shall return with episode 8 of The Blogfather: Blogfather Forever.

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The Blogfather and Robin

I did say it was an epic tale, didn't I?

Anyway, here is The Blogfather Part 7 for your entertainment and possible edification.

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