Archive for October, 2002



Due to my site being deleted by its previous hoster…archives from July to December are incomplete.
Archives have been restored as much as possible from Google. Comments for these entries were irretrievable.
My apologies.

It appears the server problems that took Bene Diction Blogs On down today are fixed. I don’t consider a
509 error a ‘problem’ myself, especially since I don’t have to ‘fix’ it. A 509 error means that Bene
Diction exceeded it’s bandwidth allotment for the month of October. If memory serves me correctly, this is [...]

This Googlism site can tell you what the Google search bots pick up and thinks you are. So, who is Bene Diction?

Bene diction is a pen name he can pass it on and there’s a chance Bene diction will still be blogging 250 years from now
Bene diction is the pseudonym of a canadian journalist [...]

This article in ClickZ Today looks at the content of blogs, their usefulness and lack of it.

My. My. Part of the fun of trying to be a meta blogger is linking up and watching the fun. Connexion likes the fact Susan Solomon, scribe of the above mentioned article knows about wiki, but that’s about [...]

Three take downs of media coverage…count ‘em, three pieces.
Mark Steyn says
profilers would be better served going into newsrooms.

The media lapsed into the same denial mode the last time a forty-year-old radical Muslim called Mohamed opened
fire on U.S. soil. July the Fourth, LAX, the El Al counter, two dead. CNN and The Associated Press [...]

To North Americans the British and thier kin can sometimes be the masters of understatement. This morning I read a news
piece about gales in the UK. Those gales turned out to be a very bad storm that killed several people, knocked out power to
many areas of the UK and Europe and has generally [...]

This is the kind of news item that gives me a headache. You know those sharp little jabs that start over your left eye and work their way around your head if you don’t
bail out and find something better to do that read this stuff? Filler. Bury anything important at the bottom of the piece.
Canada’s [...]

With Daypop down for the next few weeks, my British blogs unaccessible due to the storms over there, and Instapundit showing up as a page not found today, I’m randomly leapblogging.
Blithering Idiot has hymns he is beginning to appreciate as he grows older.
1. Precious Lord, Take My Hand, And Help Me Up
2. It Is Well [...]



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