Below The Beltway

It’s time to take the annual holiday hiatus again. I’d like to say regular blogging will resume after January 1st, but given the fact that we’re two weeks away from a the beginning of what will undoubtably be a very interesting political year, I doubt that will be the case.
You’ll see me around these parts [...]

One quick addition to the comment policy:
4. Off-topic comments will be deleted at the discretion of the moderator
That is all.

As I noted the other day, Sitemeter seemed to be having problems over the weekend.
It appears to have been due to a server outage:
It seems that on Friday November 24th, “Black Friday” (known as such because it’s the busiest shopping day of the year) a handful of SiteMeter servers failed, including the one that hosts [...]

It’s been awhile since I’ve made any changes to the blogroll, so I figure we’re about due.
First, I’ve deleted Jackie Passey’s blog because it appears to be dead, gone, completely erased. Too bad.
Second, I’ve added three new libertarian oriented blogs that have been on my aggregator for awhile. First, Freedom Democrats which describes itself as [...]

There have been some hiccups with Sitemeter today which appear to be causing slow loading of the sidebar elements of the site as well. Things should be back to normal when the Sitemeter issue is fixed, whenever that is.

Raymond notes that he’s gotten over 100,000 spam comments at A Think Tank For One.
Heck, that’s nothing.
As of this morning, Askimet has captured 214,158 spam comments here at Below The Beltway.
So I win !
Or something like that.

I was able to complete a painless upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.1 in record time this morning, all seems to be going well.

A brief pause for a bit of shameless self-promotion.
Earlier this evening, Sitemeter recorded the 200,000th person to visit Below The Beltway since the new domain was established on April 1, 2006. Combined with the visitors from the previous domain, that means about 245,000 unique visitors have passed through these parts.
At least according to Sitemeter.
In reality, [...]

As you can probably tell, the frequency of writing has dropped off here recently, and there have been alot more posts about sports than about almost any other topic, especially this weekend.
Partly, this is because I’ve been busy with other things and blogging has sort of taken a back seat. Also, it seems as though [...]

I’ve been away from the blog today, and noticed I got home this evening that there appeared to be something causing it to switch to the Wordpress default theme.
Not sure what that is, but I think it might have something to do with the Comedy Central video embed that I posted this morning. I deleted [...]