Day: July 9, 2003

I’m sure at least one of my three or four readers must know how to fix a “000 java.net.UnknownHostException” error. Unfortunately, with the error making it impossible to publish anything to my weblog, it’s pretty difficult to ask.

And now that it seems to be working again (albeit a little slowly), there really isn’t much point.

While I wait for Blogger to start publishing to my weblog again, I’ve updated the sidebar. I’m reading a new book, listening to new music, and I’ve seen three new films in recent weeks. And I’m sure you are all just pleased as punch to know this, aren’t you?

So P.T. Barnum never said “A sucker is born every minute,”, and George Washington never said, “I cannot tell a lie.” How will I ever learn to trust my copy of Bartlett’s Famous Quotations ever again? (I’ve already lost my faith in the Internet as a reliable source for quotes.

(Links courtesy of the message board at Angels from Another Pin and this Salon article, respectively.)

Fellow capper amycamus shares this unconfirmed statistic: “there are more than 3,000 homes in the U.S. built as exact replicas of the Brady Bunch home.”

I don’t want to keep talking about Michael Savage — in my opinion, the man deserves to be forgotten — but I thought it was worth noting that, in his official statement about finally getting fired from MSNBC, he writes: “I especially appeal to my many listeners in the gay community to accept my apologies for any inadvertent insults which may have occurred.”

Savage had viewers in the gay community? Isn’t that like saying the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan had friends in the NAACP?