Spammers exploiting Blogspot: In A Whole Lotta Nothing: Blogspot is hurting America, Matt Haughey points out that Google's blog hosting service is becoming part of the typical spammer's infrastructure. Given that the quest for page rank also underlies most of the problems with comment and trackback spam, isn't it about time Google started closing... (Products)

Is there an award for most-boring blog?: And, if so, can I nominate myself for it? Here's some boring stuff: my referrers. Like what's up with that? No, but seriously. It's funny when a referrer is on an intranet or password-protected site. I go try to check out the link - props or put-down? - and I can't... (Memes)

I'll call you elphy junior: Well, it turns out immersion in coffee is not good for digital camera. Our local camera shop (down on Lake Shore, and it's cool we have one – the old typewriter repair shop on College in Elmwood closed recently), sent it back to Canon for a $20 estimate. Turns out they... (Miscellany)

Navigate by time: Given the choice of half of Paul Ford's writing talent or half of his database squeegling skills, I'm not sure which I'd choose.... (Go on?)... (Miscellany)