Okay, decided on a slightly reduced-functionality version of the blogvoices service. It doesn’t pull any files from the blogvoices server (the attempt to do so was screwing with the loading of this page), but it should work okay when their, er, his server actually is back up. Now is the time for choice C.

I nearly had a heart attack when I saw this, I don’t mind telling you. I’m still a bit lightheaded. Unfortunately, it seems Jerwin and I might have conspired to completely hose the site we were talking about — which from the tracert, appears to be hosted on a DSL line out of this guy’s house. It is just a tiny public beta, after all. Eek. I’m torn between snipping out the feature, since the service is down now anyway, or leaving it in so as not to confuse people coming from 2xy. Maybe I’ll go with choice C: go to sleep and hope it all gets better.

A brief caution: antibiotics cause collateral damage. There are millions of little friends that live in your gut and help you process all of the things that you eat that you have no innate, natural ability to digest. (which is a fair amount of what most people eat, actually.) So when you take antibiotics, these little fellas get killed, and you end up with a few problems. This is why eating a breakfast of pretzels and coffee shortly after taking a course of antibiotics is a bad idea. <SFX=”NBC-theMoreYouKnow”>

Oh, my! Does the Freakho have some secret connection, enabling him to get into the Blogger comments beta test? Is he actually a tech-stock billionaire, and the super-secret source of funding? No, I just blatantly repurposed the graphic. I’m trying out Blogvoices, a cool-as-hell.. um.. plugin, I guess, for Blogger that allows you, the hoblog reader, to comment on a post. I just love these web-app developin’ kiddies, I really, really do.

Well, weblogs.com is down tonight. Dave did give a warning, but must he assume that all the people who use a service dependent upon his database read his weblog? Anyway, it’s made me realize just how much I base my surfing habits around his product. Perhaps it’s time to branch out a little bit.

Some kind and incredibly cool soul crawled the amiHOTorNOT site and tabulated the results. You can now find out which pics were rated highest by users, which has the effect of making the site, um, useful. Check out the current Mr Number Six. Rrrow. [announced, beta’d, revised, etc on MeFi. Is that a first?]

Has anyone else noticed that with the return of the prime-time lineup, almost all shows have gone to mixed-case closed captioning? Before a week or so ago, seeing a show that wasn’t captioned in all-caps was rare. Now the mixed-case trend crosses networks, timeslots, formats, whatever. Did one of the major caption houses change its policy all of a sudden? The whole suddenness and ubiquity of the change is mystifying me.

Find your ideal candidate. I got Nader, Bradley, Gore, and Browne as my top four. Buchanan was actually ranked above Shrub and his mate, who occupied the very bottom slots. They also give you a nice graphical output of where you fall in the political spectrum. I though I would be just a little further toward the libertarian end, but if the quiz says so… :) I think the question about tying human rights concerns to China trade policy hurt me in terms of libertarian-ness.

Also interesting is their Religon Selector, Which gave me Unitarian Universalist, Humanist, Theravada Buddhist, Neo-Pagan, Liberal Quaker, and only then Atheist/Agnostic. I think Unitarian is their “Hell, we don’t know!” answer. :) It did give me Roman Catholic dead-last, so maybe there’s something to it.