One of my new favorite artists! Her name is Cathy Davey. Now check out these vocals.

I was just kicking back watching the World Series when the announcer directed viewers to PostSeason.TV for additional coverage of the series. It’s a redirect to a .COM, but still not bad considering the amount of exposure it will bring to .TV.

According to my estimates, at least 10 million people just heard that plug for Dot-TV.

World Series television ratings

Sitting here wondering why David Letterman often opens his show by first walking over to stage-right and momentarily leaning against what appears to be a structural beam with his back to the audience.

In all honesty, I’m typing this to fill some space at the top of my blog. I don’t really have anything important (or witty) to say, I just got a little tired of seeing that huge photo of the late great Soupy Sales up here. Hopefully my writer’s block will be cured soon and I can return with articles of grit, wit, and southern charm. I did change the font colors of my Adsense code today. We’ll see if it helps with the clickity clicks.

The legendary comedian Soupy Sales died yesterday at the age of 83. The comedian was known for his zany antics and pie throwing slap stick humor. I fondly remember seeing him on the game show Hollywood Squares.  Sales recently slipped and fell at a local awards show in New York. His health began to decline after the incident.

What I am listening to at the moment? Well since you asked:  Army of Tears

I just saw this and dug it….so now it’s here.

Langhorne Slim sings Colette live. Some audio trouble but worth a listen. IMO.

Yesterday, I was desperately seeking ways to waste loads of time when along comes Mod Rewrite.

I’m a reluctant user of Statpress Reloaded (due to buggy database bloat) but do enjoy examining site visitor data during uncontrolled bouts of time wasting. Occasionally I will see unwanted guests browsing my archive of random musings. This is a problem for which I have found a cure. It’s called Mod Rewite.

Let’s say you see someone from 10.10.10.69 reading your private thoughts. Let’s say you don’t like repeating 10′s in IP addresses and let’s also say you’re an IP snob. If you’re running Apache, do this:

1. Modify or create an .HTACCESS file and place it in the root folder.

2. Add something like this to the file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

# Redirect specific IP address
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^10\.10\.10\.69 [OR]

# Redirect Class C subnet
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^10\.10\.10 [OR]

# Redirect Class B subnet
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^10\.10

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

# Name of file to redirect
RewriteRule !down.htm$ down.htm [R=307,L]

Now when pesky visitors return from those ranges, they will be directed to the specified HTML page.

Click here to see my redirect!

Here’s an interesting article on the biggest TLD blunders of all time. I think he missed .TRAVEL.

“Because of its bad reputation, the name has received almost no recognition from the Internet community. No website on a .info domain is taken seriously by anyone. And considering the goal of most sites is to provide information to begin with, isn’t “.info” a bit redundant?”

Entire Top 5 TLD Failures Article