On This Day: Oct 17

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This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 17, 2020). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 20 posts previously published on October 17th

  • 2023
  • 2020
  • 2018
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 17, 2018). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Recommended reading for the day: Stet, a brilliant short-form SF piece ... Read more ➡
  • 2016
    • This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on October 17, 2016). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.Got photobombed with a kiss while taking today’s shot. :) (290/366) ➡
  • 2010
  • 2008
    • Links for October 17th from 09:54 to 16:37 Sometime between 09:54 and 16:37, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! ➡
    • Six Seconds of Cute This was one of the best things we saw at the Puyallup fair. Put a kid no older than six (the youngest we saw was three) and no heavier than sixty pounds on a sheep and let them try to hang on for six seconds. Really cute, and really funny! ➡
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Top GOP pollster says Bush is in trouble Frank Luntz, one of the country's top Republican pollsters, is saying that Bush is in serious trouble. ➡
    • LotR:TRotKEE The Official Lord of the Rings website has posted a trailer for the upcoming Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition DVD, to be released on Dec. 14th! ➡
    • Constitutional rights trump terror fears Finally, some good news — for once, a court has upheld our Constitutional rights over the current wave of paranoia over terrorism. ➡
  • 2003
    • Bayesian spam filtering for MT There's another option in the fight against weblog comment spam now that looks on first blush to be an incredibly effective solution — implementing Bayesian spam filtering on MovableType. ➡
    • testy.littleville.com I've been having an odd problem that I've noticed in the past, but am just now starting to attempt to track down, in that my server keeps insisting that its domain name is 'testy.littleville.com' rather than 'www.djwudi.com'. ➡
    • Slight IMAP issues Work keeps progressing on re-creating the djwudi.com webserver. Last night's project was setting it up as a working mailserver using sendmail and IMAP. Much progress was made, and I'm just facing one last issue that I can't resolve, and if there's anyone out there who might understand a bit more of this end of things than I do, assistance would be greatly appreciated. ➡
  • 2002
    • An American tired of American lies …in wartime people lose their senses. There are flags and yellow ribbons and posters and every media outlet is beating the war drum and even sensible people can hear nothing else. In the US, God forbid you should suggest the war is unjust or that dropping cluster bombs from 30,000ft on a city is a cowardly act. In a country that lauds its freedom of speech, a word of dissent can cost you your job. ➡
    • I’m going to hell, aren’t I? I do have to admit to a certain level of amusement at picturing the entire DC population zigzagging along the city sidewalks like a bunch of drunks. ➡
    • Brrrrrrrrrrr Okay, so skydiving has never been too high on my list of things to do. In fact, I don't think you could pay me enough to do it voluntarily. However, skydiving naked just seems even crazier. ➡
    • Best. Mefi. Thread. Ever. Few grade-school kids could successfully define the word 'schadenfreude' if asked, but you had better believe they know what it means. Furthermore, they have even less interest in disguising their glee at another's misfortune than most grown-ups. Taunting another kid she knows she can outrun, cackling as another kid gets in trouble — nothing pleases the average child more. ➡
  • 2001
    • If I ever go postal… I swear, if I ever completely lose it, flip out, and go postal, I'm going to end up doing it with a staple gun. ➡
  • 1991
    • [From the IRN: 10.17.91 1218] Being me...I blindly stumble through an undending maze of color, shape, and sound. Some of it makes sense, some of it doesn't, all of it is amusing. ➡