Day: August 5, 2005

At 11:27 PM Pacific Time, my Site Meter logged 500,000 unique visitors to this blog. Reader number 500K lives in the Central Time Zone and was accessing the blog using WebTV.

Thanks to all of you who read PunditGuy regularly.

Now, on to 1 million.

Guess who’s playing at the Montana State Fair tonight?

“As soon as someone wants to ban perfection, I have to squash ’em,” he said with a laugh. “I have to just crush ’em, and I crush ’em by promoting the beauty and the perfection of hunting, fishing and trapping and the Second Amendment.

“I have a standard policy that any time I hear the words ‘animal’ and ‘rights’ in the same sentence, I’m killing a hundred of something, and it brings them much, much anguish, and I couldn’t be more pleased.”

Ted.Nugent.

The Motor City Madman warns tonight’s fairgoers to be ready for a wild show that will include Black Panther military weapons on stage.

“There’ll be no Montana State Fair like this one, I promise you,” he said.

It’s a beautiful thing.

I knew Steven Tyler from Aerosmith was getting up there in age, but wow, he’s 57 now, which isn’t really that old if you’re a Business CEO, a lawyer, or a Farmer, or maybe a Real Estate Agent, or some desk occupation like that.

But, when you’re a rock star, and your concerts are populated by kids aged 10 and up, well…

Go here and look at the photo. Pay particular attention to Tyler’s neck. That’s a old man’s neck if I’ve ever seen one.

There’s nothing worse than a messy Wiki.

Wikipedia, the Web encyclopaedia written and edited by Internet users from all over the world, plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content, founder Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying on Friday.

Wales, who launched Wikipedia with partner Larry Sanger in 2001, said it needed to find a balance between protecting information from abuse and providing open access to improve entries.

“There may soon be so-called stable contents. In this case, we’d freeze the pages whose quality is undisputed,” he said.

Citing a recent example of vandalism, Wales recalled how following the election of the new Pope Benedict in April, a user substituted the pontiff’s photo on the Wikipedia site with that of the evil emperor from the Star Wars film series.

“The picture was only on the page for a minute. But whoever opens the article at this moment will get annoyed — and therefore doubt our credibility,” he told the paper.

 He said that setting up a form of “commission” might be one way of deciding which entries could be “frozen” in perpetuity.

Hey, I can completely understand his gripe. I have a hard enough time dealing with trackback and comment SPAM on this blog…I can only imagine what it is like for the Wikipedia folks. I’m sure there are plenty of jerks out there whose sole purpose in life is to deface wiki articles. Everything possible should be done to stop that kind of activity.

Hopefully though, their intention is only to deal with the vandals, and not start editing factual content or restricting access.

Deal with the thugs, but keep Wikipedia free and open.

I’m sure they’re working as fast as they can, but…

Network of sonar sensors to provide tsunami warnings for 27 countries.

A network of sonar sensors able to instantly transmit data from the Indian Ocean floor to tsunami warning centers in 27 countries could be in place within a year, international experts said on Friday. UNESCO is establishing the system through its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s Intergovernmental Coordination Group (ICG), and is on track to finish it by mid-2006.

They need to do whatever possible, technically and scientifically, to put a reliable system in place before the next tragedy occurs.

Arthur Chrenkoff will stop blogging soon. He’s got a new job and it requires that he give up his personal blog as a result. While I’m happy for Arthur and his future, I’m sad that his regular reports on Iraq will end. Throughout the blogosphere, there was nothing as comprehensive and current as his information.

He’s also been a great promoter of this blog, and has given me a huge amount of support.

He’ll be missed.