Road tripping for the next few days. I may have a chance to post intermittently, but likely won’t quite as frequently as usual. Enjoy the long weekend in the meantime!
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wmtc: special update for long-time wmtc readers
In 2009, I wrote this brief history of trolls at wmtc. At that time, the sad man who calls himself magnolia_2000 had been reading and leaving comments on wmtc for about three years. Now it’s mid-2013, and Mags is still reading. It’s been six years. Six years!! None of his comments
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Progressive Bloggers and Meta
I’m pleased to announce my little site was accepted by the good people at Progressive Bloggers as an “affiliate.” This means my posts will show up in their feed and I’m on their blogroll. Aside from possibly driving more eyeballs to my work (which has become increasingly Canadian focused as
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Light blogging ahead
Off to warmer climes until next weekend, with little or no posting in the meantime. Enjoy the week!
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: #skndpldr – Super Happy Mega Fun Pundit Navel-Gazing Post
I’ll have plenty more to add in later posts about the opportunities the Saskatchewan NDP holds under Cam Broten’s leadership. But before this weekend’s convention is too far in the rear-view mirror, I’ll take a few minutes to assess my own analysis of the leadership campaign. And I’d like to
Continue reading264MHz: Mobile friendly rss feeds for The Toronto Star
The Toronto Star website recently underwent another revamping. In the process the mobile version of the articles seems to have been removed, or at least I can’t access them from my smartphone. Using Firefox mobile leads me to a crazy page by page view that I suspect is design for
Continue readingwmtc: best of wmtc, 2012 edition
The wmtc greatest hits page has been updated with the best posts of 2012, as chosen by my editor and second-biggest* fan. Thanks for reading, and thank you always for your support. * My mother, who else?!
Continue readingwmtc: further thoughts on why i blog: a clarification
My recent post about no longer voting in US elections caused some dismay and upset among some of USian readers. At least one friend interpreted that post as encouraging others not to vote. I was surprised by this – but my friend was surprised that it m…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Light blogging ahead
I’ll be largely away from the blog for the next week and a half. Expect only a few posts in the meantime, but I’ll be back to the usual pace before too long.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Comments
Since Echo’s comment system is being discontinued, I’ve reverted back to Blogspot’s commenting system for now. Please let me know if you have any issues in posting new comments. I’ll be working on importing previous comments, and will hopefully have all of them together before too long.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saskatchewan NDP Leadership 2013 – What’s In Store
While the Saskatchewan NDP’s 2013 leadership campaign officially started last week and at least a couple of the candidates have already made strong entrances, I haven’t yet had a chance to comment much on the contest. But rest assured that there’s plenty coming, especially with more candidate announcements coming over
Continue readingwmtc: wmtc.ca is back!
I am SO happy! My own domain name, wmtc.ca, is once again working with the Blogger platform. URLs for this blog will now show the wmtc.ca address, as they did many years ago, and I (again) have blogspot out of the blog’s URL. I registered wmtc.ca in 2006, before Blogger
Continue readingwmtc: why is someone from the house of commons and office of privy council reading my blog for hours?
Progressive bloggers, check your stats. The Statcounter for wmtc shows “multiple visits spread out over several days” from an IP address in the House of Commons, and a separate visit from the Office of the Privy Council. This visitor or visitors spent time at several of my “greatest hits” posts,
Continue readingwmtc: a trip down memory lane with wmtc
Combing through some old files, I found this lovely bit: a comment from “GarySTJ”, a former troll who was obsessed with me for a time. I used to delete his comments, then past them into posts so wmtc readers could have fun kicking him around. After being banned from wmtc,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Light blogging ahead
I’m off to destinations unknown until next week, with little to no blogging in the interim. Enjoy the long weekend in the meantime!
Continue readingwmtc: how to have a one-sided conversation, or, how not to ask for a favour
A reader – or at least someone who stumbled on my blog at some point – emailed me with a request. When I replied, I received this auto-reply: Your message to xxxxx was not delivered because this mailbox does not accept mail from the Gmail system. Gmail not only invades
Continue readingwmtc: question for people using blogger with custom domains
A few years ago, I used Blogger with my own domain, wmtc.ca. There was an issue with individual posts not publishing correctly. The main page, wmtc.ca, was fine. But if you clicked on a post, you still got wmtc.ca, not wmtc.ca/todayspost.html. You could get a unique URL for a post
Continue readingwmtc: blogger, please let us turn off word verification!
I’ve just found out that word verification for comments has been on, even though I’ve turned it off. I already use comment moderation, so there’s no need for verification, too. I’ve turned off verification repeatedly, but it keeps defaulting back to “on”. If you’re also having this problem with a
Continue readingwmtc: social bookmarking survey, take two
The poll in an earlier wmtc post wreaked havoc on my blog, so I’m trying again. If I might beg another moment of your time, please go here to take a two-question survey about your use of social bookmarking websites. By this I mean sites like Delicious, Reddit, CiteULike, BuzzFeed,
Continue readingwmtc: html/css help needed
As you can see, strange things have been happening to this blog’s template, and I’ve been unable to find the source and fix it. The header background is appearing in a strange (ugly!) colour. I can’t find the code that is making this happen. If you click on any of
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