the leftorium

Brad Choate, the Six Apart developer guru, has released an unbelievable new spam fighter for Movable Type blogs. This is exciting news, as I still keep getting spammed like crazy. And, this blog, The Leftorium, has not gotten spammed at all. It's because I haven't used it in forever! Spammers aren't seeing any activity on this blog, so why would they need to spam it to get more attention? I guess that just speaks that much better about the Live Music Blog getting spammed constantly.

Check out the plugin here.

I'm installing it right now.

Posted by justin at 08:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

It appears that I haven't touched The Leftorium in a while. I have to say that I have quite the political hangover, and I don't imagine that I'll come back to trying to write about politics.

I'll be using this site where I can discuss and blog about a lot of other topics that are of interest to me (besides music). I'll be back, very soon, probably this evening. I need to do my Shrek 2 review.

Posted by justin at 07:05 AM | Permalink

Some of the roundup today has been spectacular to say the least.

Anyone Know How to Make a Noose? (James Wolcott), Stages (a.whole), TalkLeft Statement on Election, It's Rebuilding Time for the Dems (Electablog), Criminal (Airbag), and Electing to Leave (Harpers)

I can say with great certainty that living in Chicago, IL, a state that easily elected Kerry and more easily elected Barack Obama (come on, like Alan Keyes even had close to a chance), has left me completely jaded. I assumed that everyone else in the world felt the same way I did. Maybe because that's all I really read (as evidenced by this blog). I can look forward to see that there's nothing to look forward to from this administration. Let's hope I'm wrong...

Update: Michael Moore's Faces of the Fallen, Pandagon's bum-out, Eschaton: Onward

Posted by justin at 08:10 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (1)

Well, in all seriousness, it was probably Nader's crew.

I just got my vote in to come home to quite a lot of buzz on the internet today as well. There's really so much to take in. Just turn on the TV. Turn on CNN. Go to Wonkette. Go to Instapundit. Oh wait, they're all broken. I hope that everyone did try to exercise their right today by voting in what could be the most pivotal election of our generation. The X Generation? I've always hated that. Actually, I think I'm in a generation all my own. Shouldn't we all have our own generation?

Update: I'm so glad that I actually got through to this blog and learned that I will never read such horrible crap like this again. Crap, I say!

Posted by justin at 06:45 PM | Permalink

Well, I'm pleased to report that my scheduled blog maintenance has gone very well. I'm super psyched because I've got MT-Blacklist now installed, I've upgraded to 3.121, and more plug-ins are sure to be installed this week. How am I doing?

Posted by justin at 01:24 PM | Permalink

For some crazy reason, this blog looked horrible at the Apple Store last night. That worries me...

Sorry to all the Mac users that can't read my awesome blog. I'm working on it.

Posted by justin at 06:41 AM | Permalink

The revolution will be commercialized | Kottke

I think the ease of putting a couple extra pennies back into your pocket has allowed this to happen. Personally, I think it's cool that some people can make a living out of this. Especially the people that really wanted to write all of their lives. I love the idea that it's possible. Ward Blogs is born.

Posted by justin at 06:59 PM | Permalink