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Posted: April 28 2008,07:17

Thanks for posting this, Abbie. I was just asking around about you, as I had noticed that your blog had disappeared. Very strange.

Let's hope that Blogger can restore it without any loss of information. Anyway, I'm just glad that you are alright as I did worry just a little.

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Posted: April 28 2008,07:26

Yes, thanks for posting. This is the first place I looked, next was going to be Science Blogs, thinking you would be a great addition to their honor roll of bloggers.

Could it be that some The Expelled producers have answered their scientific question of WWJD? with an answer of "We Must Break ERV's Blog?

Could it be just a random Creo (William Wallace)?

Good luck with whatever!

Let us know when you are up again, and let me know if I can help in anyway.

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Posted: April 28 2008,07:31

I was going to wait until school was over to move to SciBlogs, but now Im going to ASAP. I wouldnt have deleted my goddamn Blogger ERV, though-- I want my old posts!

But it will give me a place to write while Im dealing with the Google Help link farm. :P

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Posted: April 28 2008,07:38

Yahoo has some of your site cached.

Don't know how long it's going to last, though.

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Posted: April 28 2008,07:45

Well, you did post anti-scilon propaganda...

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Posted: April 28 2008,07:45

WooHoo! All praise Yahoo!!

If you search for (for instance) "ERV March" it will give you the link to the March 2007 and March 2008 pages of your blog. The link wont work, but if you click on "Cached" instead, it will show you the page. Should work for other months.

It'll take a while to save it all, but at least it's there (for now!)

I'm not doing anything at the moment, so I'll save as much as I can, upload it to SendSpace, and PM you the link.

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Posted: April 28 2008,07:48

I have found a cache of your blog: Here.

I used Yahoo. If you want to save any posts, etc, you could try that. I'm rubbish with computers, so I don't know if it is any help or not?

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Posted: April 28 2008,07:51

Curse you, quixote!

Erm, it's not as if I thought that I was being clever or anything. Honest.

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Posted: April 28 2008,08:09

What in the sam hill?

My bet is that it's some sort of giant (and hopefully temporary) technical screwup.

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Posted: April 28 2008,08:35

Quote (ERV @ April 28 2008,07:31)

I was going to wait until school was over to move to SciBlogs, but now Im going to ASAP. I wouldnt have deleted my goddamn Blogger ERV, though-- I want my old posts!

But it will give me a place to write while Im dealing with the Google Help link farm. :P

Silver Lining:

I'm betting Dembski's bottle of single-malt that ERV will be a top 3 blog for viewership at SciBlogs within 6 months.

( Hope somebody cached all ERV's booby posts though...)

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Posted: April 28 2008,08:46

Noticed today too, weird. Hopefully it's just a technical screwup and not some policy drone pulling the plug.

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Posted: April 28 2008,08:51

Looks to me like policy. The site was delisted several days ago.

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Posted: April 28 2008,08:53

All done. I've sent you the link.

I couldn't find feb 2007, oct 2007 and dec 2006 though. Anyone else have an idea where these might be found?

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Posted: April 28 2008,08:53

And http://www.archive.org appears to be down.

Coincidence? I think not!

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Posted: April 28 2008,09:33

Another Bottle of Dembski's Best Single Malt that the upcoming movie:

Abbie & Arnie's Get Expelled Adventure

out-earns NeinStein's Expelled - Stupidity Allowed.

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Posted: April 28 2008,11:29

Born Again ERV

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Posted: April 28 2008,11:35

Quote (Advocatus Diaboli @ April 28 2008,06:45)

Well, you did post anti-scilon propaganda...

Well, just as long as there was nothing about Cylons in there...

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Posted: April 28 2008,11:46

Quote (Henry J @ April 28 2008,11:35)

Quote (Advocatus Diaboli @ April 28 2008,06:45)

Well, you did post anti-scilon propaganda...

Well, just as long as there was nothing about Cylons in there... :p

It's Scilon in moon-language.

Argh! MOOMINS.

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Posted: April 28 2008,12:36

My Google Reader has all ERV posts saved. I can move them all into an online word document.

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Posted: April 28 2008,12:50

A phoenix arises from the ashes.

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Posted: April 28 2008,13:11

LOL, that's great Quidam.

Hey, I just noticed that Abbie's new blog could do with some banner graphics behind the title. Is that something you'd be interested in?

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Posted: April 28 2008,13:12

Quote (christophersisk @ April 28 2008,12:36)

My Google Reader has all ERV posts saved. I can move them all into an online word document.

Outstanding -

I can't speak for Abbie, but if you have all of ERV's posts, I think Abbie will get you in for free the next time she takes on Behe, Dembski or one of their D.I Fellows or ID-Friendly minions.

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Posted: April 28 2008,13:25

Quote (christophersisk @ April 28 2008,12:36)

My Google Reader has all ERV posts saved. I can move them all into an online word document.

Would love, of course (as long as its no trouble-- you copy/pasting for 5 hours is not 'no trouble').

Ive recovered most of my posts, thanks to AtBCers, Pharyngulites, and other well wishers, so I can repost them eventually :)

Thanks everybody!!

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Posted: April 28 2008,13:49

Quote (J-Dog @ April 28 2008,07:26)

Could it be that some The Expelled producers have answered their scientific question of WWJD? with an answer of "We Must Break ERV's Blog?

LOL - If IDists are currently applying the WWJD formula to their current MO then Jesus would be a longer haired version of Dr Evil. :p

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Posted: April 28 2008,14:50

Quote (bunnycatch3r @ April 28 2008,13:49)

Quote (J-Dog @ April 28 2008,07:26)

Could it be that some The Expelled producers have answered their scientific question of WWJD? with an answer of "We Must Break ERV's Blog?

LOL - If IDists are currently applying the WWJD formula to their current MO then Jesus ~~would be~~ is a longer haired version of Dr Evil. :p

Here you go - I fixed it for you.

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Posted: April 28 2008,14:57

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Is that something you'd be interested in?

Sure, unfortunately I know very little about ERV's and how to make them webby.

I could do Behe on his knees, beaten into submission by a Dominatrix Abbie.

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Posted: April 28 2008,15:10

Quote (Quidam @ April 28 2008,14:57)

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Is that something you'd be interested in?

Sure, unfortunately I know very little about ERV's and how to make them webby. �

I could do Behe on his knees, beaten into submission by a Dominatrix Abbie.

*raises hand eagerly*

*looks around, blushes, slowly lowers hand sheepishly*

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Posted: April 28 2008,15:16

Quote (Quidam @ April 28 2008,14:57)

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Is that something you'd be interested in?

Sure, unfortunately I know very little about ERV's and how to make them webby.

I could do Behe on his knees, beaten into submission by a Dominatrix Abbie.

That sounds like a portrait-oriented banner instead of the long landscape style used on scienceblogs.

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Posted: April 28 2008,15:46

Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ April 28 2008,15:16)

Quote (Quidam @ April 28 2008,14:57)

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Is that something you'd be interested in?

Sure, unfortunately I know very little about ERV's and how to make them webby.

I could do Behe on his knees, beaten into submission by a Dominatrix Abbie.

That sounds like a portrait-oriented banner instead of the long landscape style used on scienceblogs.

Wes is right.

I think we need Abbie as Science Dominatrix with a long whip, on the left side of the banner, with Behe and Dembski groveling and crying on the right side of the banner.

I am sure that this is exactly what Wes was referring to.

Right Wes?

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Posted: April 28 2008,15:56

Not terribly suitable for a banner, but I have the costume so if both parties would like to pose for me?

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Posted: April 28 2008,15:57

Finally, a picture that appeals to both me and Tarden.

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Posted: April 28 2008,16:13

ERV's blog seems to be back.

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Posted: April 28 2008,17:40

Blogspot ERV is back thanks to Mark at 'Good Math, Bad Math'.

And I mean thanks to Mark.

My blog got flagged as 'spam' and Google just deleted it.

(I vented to poor Mark) Im like, when the hell were they planning on telling *me* that? Its BLOGGER. Run by GOOGLE. Who also runs GMAIL. Like my GMAIL account I used to register at BLOGGER. Why the hell couldnt they email my bluesky account and be like 'Dude, you a bot?' Or maybe even click on my goddamn blog and be like 'Oh! This isnt spam. She posts and has active commenters.'

WTF.

Thank you thank you thank you Mark, but so long and thanks for all the fish, Blogger.

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Posted: April 28 2008,18:05

This is a quickie. �It's liquid crystal DNA http://www.microscopy.fsu.edu/micro/gallery/dna/dna.html
Which comes as a surprise to me, I didn't know it formed liquid crystals. For digital watches that can evolve and really screw up Paley's arguments perhaps? �

But it's beautiful & colourful

If anyone can point to something more appropriate, like Japanese schoolgirls holding DNA sculptures, then I'll have a go.

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Posted: April 28 2008,18:19

The Transmigration of ERV

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Posted: April 28 2008,18:37

Quote (Richardthughes @ April 28 2008,13:57)

Finally, a picture that appeals to both me and Tarden.

I didn't know you were into bears.

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Posted: April 28 2008,18:57

Quote (Arden Chatfield @ April 28 2008,18:37)

Quote (Richardthughes @ April 28 2008,13:57)

Finally, a picture that appeals to both me and Tarden.

I didn't know you were into bears.

Well, he does live in Chicago.

Hey, Richard, which one is you?

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Posted: April 28 2008,22:13

This one's made from recycled pop cans & bottles

http://www.scienceinschool.org/2006/issue2/dna

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Posted: April 28 2008,23:35

I did a little reading up on this when I found that the blog had not just been delisted by Google but deleted.

I don't understand enough about the workings of blogs, which annoys me because they're supposed to be simple. But I did a little Googling and found a story from someone else who had a blog that was delisted by Google. He found out that something had been done to it and it was SOMEHOW linking to some sort of pop up ad link farm page. The point is this guy didn't do this and didn't even know it had been done until he looked at something about the blog's incoming or outgoing links. The issue did not appear to be obvious. The story said something about a fake del.icio.us page, but I have no idea what that even is. I like to consider myself Internet savvy, but I have made absolutely no point to keep up with all the social networking stuff. I really don't see the point of most of it, blogs are about the only element of it all that made sense to me.

I'm guessing that the same thing may have happened to ERV. While it's possible that this could have been done by one of the many enemies of ERV, I'm sure there's at least one script kiddie out there who styles himself a hacker for Jesus, I'm thinking it's more likely that someone saw her blog as being high profile and decided to try to exploit it for cash.

Nonetheless that's a rather ham fisted way for Google to try to clean house. If this is an exploit being used to promote pop up ad farms and Google is intentionally tracking it down then they should know that it's not the blog author's fault. Even if it was, yes, a warning via email just might have been appropriate.

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Posted: April 28 2008,23:40

Quote (ERV @ April 28 2008,17:40)

Blogspot ERV is back thanks to Mark at 'Good Math, Bad Math'.

And I mean thanks to Mark.

My blog got flagged as 'spam' and Google just deleted it.

(I vented to poor Mark) Im like, when the hell were they planning on telling *me* that? �Its BLOGGER. �Run by GOOGLE. �Who also runs GMAIL. �Like my GMAIL account I used to register at BLOGGER. �Why the hell couldnt they email my bluesky account and be like 'Dude, you a bot?' �Or maybe even click on my goddamn blog and be like 'Oh! This isnt spam. �She posts and has active commenters.'

WTF.

Thank you thank you thank you Mark, but so long and thanks for all the fish, Blogger.

Maybe Premise Media or Behe flagged the blog as spam.

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Posted: April 29 2008,02:33

Quote (J-Dog @ April 28 2008,15:46)

[quote=Wesley R. Elsberry,April 28 2008,15:16]

Quote (Quidam @ April 28 2008,14:57)

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Is that something you'd be interested in?

Sure, unfortunately I know very little about ERV's and how to make them webby. �

I could do Behe on his knees, beaten into submission by a Dominatrix Abbie.

I think we need Abbie as Science Dominatrix with a long whip, on the left side of the banner, with Behe and Dembski groveling and crying on the right side of the banner.

Ah-ha! Now I understand Stein's motives for making Expelled. It's not about Nazis, it's just about the nazi hat, leather boots, and riding crop!

Ben, Ben, Ben...

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Posted: April 29 2008,07:23

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He found out that something had been done to it and it was SOMEHOW linking to some sort of pop up ad link farm page.

WordPresss had a bug that allowed hackers to insert links into blogs without the knowledge of bloggers. The patch for this just came out a couple months ago, and not every blog installs every update.

This insertion of links was done by bots, and many thousands of blogs were corrupted. Delisting was their first clue.

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Posted: April 29 2008,08:54

hey middy do you know how to run a sticky post on wordpress? i am having trouble doing what teh google say.

back on track: ERV are you going to sue the benign godly fundie conspiracy when it is finally uncovered that venomfangx or kirk cameron or some other douchebag killed your blog. haha. they didn't know it was a sockpuppet for scienceblags. you cannot kill the emperor, you only make him stronger in the dark arts.

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Posted: April 29 2008,13:49

Here's a blogger feature, and potential problem, that you may or may not be aware of.

You can make posts to your blog via email, without logging into blogger at all. To do this, you send mail to an address based on your blogger login name and the name of your blog. The format is:

loginName.blogName@blogger.com

For instance, if your blogger login name was "erv" and your blog name was endogenousretrovirus, you could post by sending mail to:

erv.endogenousretrovirus@blogger.com

The only security is that your blogger login name isn't something obvious.. like erv :)

I actually make all my blog posts this way so I a) can use my normal e-mail editor and b) so I have a record of all my blog entries in my mail's 'sent' folder... just in case.

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Posted: April 29 2008,15:00

Once, as I was typing in those stupid security letters and hitting "publish" for the umpteenth time for the same post, I received a message that my blog was a "spam blog." I can't remember what I did then, but eventually the message disappeared and my post published. (I think I removed a few cuss words.)

Blogger blows goats! I'd love to take my blog somewhere else, when I get some time.

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Posted: April 29 2008,15:11

Quote (Kristine @ April 29 2008,15:00)

Once, as I was typing in those stupid security letters and hitting "publish" for the umpteenth time for the same post, I received a message that my blog was a "spam blog." I can't remember what I did then, but eventually the message disappeared and my post published. (I think I removed a few cuss words.) :)

Blogger blows goats! I'd love to take my blog somewhere else, when I get some time.

Kristine, - So, ... If some ID Fanatic tries to blow up Amused Muse, does Quidam get to put you into the Dominatrix outfit and show you beating up Dembski and Behe too?

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Posted: April 29 2008,15:17

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Kristine, - So, ... If some ID Fanatic tries to blow up Amused Muse, does Quidam get to put you into the Dominatrix outfit and show you beating up Dembski and Behe too?

[Don Quixote sets to work blowing up Amused Muse]

;-)

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Posted: April 29 2008,15:20

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Kristine, - So, ... If some ID Fanatic tries to blow up Amused Muse, �does Quidam get to put you into the Dominatrix outfit and show you beating up Dembski and Behe too?

[Don Quixote sets to work blowing up Amused Muse]

;-)

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Posted: April 29 2008,15:34

Quote (Richardthughes @ April 29 2008,15:20)

Quote (don_quixote @ April 29 2008,15:17)

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Kristine, - So, ... If some ID Fanatic tries to blow up Amused Muse, does Quidam get to put you into the Dominatrix outfit and show you beating up Dembski and Behe too?

[Don Quixote sets to work blowing up Amused Muse]

;-)

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RICHARD IS RIGHT...
POST DARWINIST HACKED = OH NOES!!!!!

Added in edit; Well, actually not the hacking, just the thought of You Know Who doing You Know What, and Not Wearing Clothes... EWWWWWW!

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Posted: April 29 2008,15:54

Quote (J-Dog @ April 29 2008,14:11)

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Quote (Kristine @ April 29 2008,15:00)

Once, as I was typing in those stupid security letters and hitting "publish" for the umpteenth time for the same post, I received a message that my blog was a "spam blog." I can't remember what I did then, but eventually the message disappeared and my post published. (I think I removed a few cuss words.)

Blogger blows goats! I'd love to take my blog somewhere else, when I get some time.

Kristine, - So, ... If some ID Fanatic tries to blow up Amused Muse, �does Quidam get to put you into the Dominatrix outfit and show you beating up Dembski and Behe too?

Gnu idea for a Behe autobiography: I Am Orang Pendek*.

(Okay, you dudes chew on that one for a while. Disturbing, I hope?)

*Legend.

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Posted: April 29 2008,16:10

May I just add that the picture of ERV is a stock photo, unphotoshopped. The Behe bit is clearly photoshopped though, Tarden tells me for a start he has pierced nipples in real life...

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Posted: April 29 2008,20:43

Stock? Nothing stock there. I flew down for a custom photo shoot. I told Behe I was shooting for documentary called Crossbones, about how the intersection between the decline in Pirates and the rise in the ID movement and while he was happy to wear the Jack Sparrow hat, when I produced the leather pants and leash he mumbled something about being led and beaten once before and he wasn't going to get caught again.

Don't you think Kristine is too cuddly cute to be a dominatrix?

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Posted: April 30 2008,08:02

Quote (Quidam @ April 29 2008,20:43)

Stock? Nothing stock there. I flew down for a custom photo shoot. I told Behe I was shooting for documentary called Crossbones, about how the intersection between the decline in Pirates and the rise in the ID movement and while he was happy to wear the Jack Sparrow hat, when I produced the leather pants and leash he mumbled something about being led and beaten once before and he wasn't going to get caught again.

Don't you think Kristine is too cuddly cute to be a dominatrix?

Sort of like .... a bunny?

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Posted: April 30 2008,09:12

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Stock? Nothing stock there. �I flew down for a custom photo shoot. �I told Behe I was shooting for documentary called Crossbones, about how the intersection between the decline in Pirates and the rise in the ID movement and while he was happy to wear the Jack Sparrow hat, when I produced the leather pants and leash he mumbled something about being led and beaten once before and he wasn't going to get caught again.

Don't you think Kristine is too cuddly cute to be a dominatrix?

Sort of like .... a bunny?

Oh, give me at least one fang, please.

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Posted: April 30 2008,09:17

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Blogger blows goats! I'd love to take my blog somewhere else, when I get some time.

Lucky goats.

Shifting over to Wordpress is really easy - you can transfer all your posts too. I did it, but then got an offer I couldn't refuse, and moved to Nature Network instead.

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Posted: April 30 2008,15:47

Quote (Bob O'H @ April 30 2008,08:17)

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Blogger blows goats! I'd love to take my blog somewhere else, when I get some time.

Lucky goats.

Shifting over to Wordpress is really easy - you can transfer all your posts too. �I did it, but then got an offer I couldn't refuse, and moved to Nature Network instead.

Yeah, but Wordpress treated JanieBelle and Kate *so well.*

/sarcasm

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Posted: April 30 2008,16:01

I run Wordpress for my personal weblog, but I run my own copy on my own server.

I don't know that there's a good solution for someone looking for a mass blogging site free/cheap hosting scenario. Pretty much all of those will provide some administration that is likely to stomp on the blogger from time to time.

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Posted: April 30 2008,18:29

Quote (Kristine @ April 30 2008,16:47)

Quote (Bob O'H @ April 30 2008,08:17)

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Blogger blows goats! I'd love to take my blog somewhere else, when I get some time.

Lucky goats.

Shifting over to Wordpress is really easy - you can transfer all your posts too. I did it, but then got an offer I couldn't refuse, and moved to Nature Network instead.

Yeah, but Wordpress treated JanieBelle and Kate *so well.*

/sarcasm

And me as well, and I didn't even write no damned porno or nuthin'!

Actually there are quite a few people out there unhappy with the arbitrary administration of the WordPress staff, and a little Google will do ya'.

That said, it's good software (less so since the interface overhaul) and Wesley's setup (use the software, not the hosting) is what I would recommend to anyone with the wherewithal to do it. He's right about the admin. Were I more serious about my blogging, I'd go Wesley's route.

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Posted: April 30 2008,20:09

I'll just set up a blowsgoats.com site with blogging capabilities!

(Yeah, sure...)

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Posted: April 30 2008,20:43

Quote (Kristine @ April 30 2008,08:12)

Oh, give me at least one fang, please. :)

It's Creationist Harassment Panda, with her Bamboo Shoot of Correction

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Posted: April 30 2008,23:56

Of Pandas and Peep-holes.

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Posted: May 01 2008,06:22

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Oh, give me at least one fang, please.

Fangs for the mammaries?

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Posted: May 01 2008,08:20

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Oh, give me at least one fang, please.

Fangs for the mammaries?

I think proper terminology is in order here, or these posts will wind up on the Bathroom Wall: Pasties for The Ta-Tas, Spinners For The Watermelons, something sciencey-sounding like that.

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Posted: May 01 2008,09:36

Oh, go on. Mock me! So Professor Steve Steve blabbed to Quidam about that hip-panda-chick costume fantasy he whispered to me while we walked around the Darwin exhibition, and after he swore he�d never tell, never tell!

Men!

Remind me, J-Dog. Didn�t we have a smashing good time?

If I get really hungry, can I eat the bamboo shoot?

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Posted: May 01 2008,09:40

Quote (Kristine @ May 01 2008,10:36)

So Professor Steve Steve blabbed to Quidam about that hip-panda-chick costume fantasy he whispered to me while we walked around the Darwin exhibition, and after he swore he�d never tell, never tell!

Not only did he tell, he sold the evidence to Playboy...

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Posted: May 01 2008,09:50

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Oh, go on. Mock me! So Professor Steve Steve blabbed to Quidam about that hip-panda-chick costume fantasy he whispered to me while we walked around the Darwin exhibition, and after he swore he�d never tell, never tell!

Men! :D Remind me, J-Dog. Didn�t we have a smashing good time? ;)

If I get really hungry, can I eat the bamboo shoot? :)

YES I had a smashing good time, and I hope it was good for you too. Bringing up the "bamboo shoot" is just cold though.
If you recall, I did warn you that it was early in the season, and that's why it was so small.

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Posted: May 01 2008,17:14

Blogger just emailed to apologize.

It was a nice little note, and he wanted to assure me that it was an algorithm that deleted me, not a human.

I gave him a few suggestions for how to help bloggers.

We are cool now.

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Posted: May 01 2008,18:55

Quote (ERV @ May 01 2008,18:14)

Blogger just emailed to apologize.

It was a nice little note, and he wanted to assure me that it was an algorithm that deleted me, not a human.

I gave him a few suggestions for how to help bloggers.

We are cool now.

Sounds like the all purpose excuse from the '80s: "The computer made an error."

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Posted: May 03 2008,03:15

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Could it be just a random Creo (William Wallace)?

Hey, don't blame me. �ERV is the only evolander who, while often stumped into silence, at least lets me continue to post. �I think ERV will come around some day (but then she will be Expelled, like the guy in the Age of the Machine video). �I wouldn't censor her, unlike others in the PT-mafia attempt to do to me.

In fact, I think ERV would make a great Public Information Project Director at the NCSE, if she could tone down her anti-Christian vitriol.

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Posted: May 03 2008,03:21

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Blogspot ERV is back thanks to Mark at 'Good Math, Bad Math'.

And I mean thanks to Mark.

My blog got flagged as 'spam' and Google just deleted it.

(I vented to poor Mark) Im like, when the hell were they planning on telling *me* that? �Its BLOGGER. �Run by GOOGLE. �Who also runs GMAIL. �Like my GMAIL account I used to register at BLOGGER. �Why the hell couldnt they email my bluesky account and be like 'Dude, you a bot?' �Or maybe even click on my goddamn blog and be like 'Oh! This isnt spam. �She posts and has active commenters.'

WTF.

Thank you thank you thank you Mark, but so long and thanks for all the fish, Blogger.

Can you export from blogger and import to Science blogs, then delete your blog?

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Posted: May 03 2008,13:02

The rules of SciBlogs say I cannot. They want first dibs on our posts, and if they cant, then we can only cross post (say I write something for WIRED, or a megacomment here, or an old post at ERV) a few times a week.

And, I have a lot of major links to the ERV blog, not to the new SciBlog, so I wont ever delete it. ERV blog still gets lots of hits on Dembskis theft post, 'Hello Michael Behe', and others. Dont want to break their links.

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