After kvetching a while back, I forgot to mention that the new rss feeds for this blog are active. Here they are
http://papafamilias.stblogs.org/index.rdf
http://papafamilias.stblogs.org/atom.xml
Recently in Meta-blogging Category
Soooo....
If you read this blog using rss feeds, the old feeds are no good anymore. I wil get you the new feed addresses as soon as I know they're working. I'm not sure how you will know this if you only use the feeds to know when i update, but, hey, that's life.
Obviously, this blog is undergoing changes. It will take a while, as I stubbornly prefer to figure out this stuff on my own (and since I don't quite have the same amount of free time as I did 4 years and three boys ago when I set most of this stuff up). But rest assured, what you see is not the finished product.
To whomever showed up looking for "why eomer screams":
Because he thinks his freakin' sister is dead!
So um, like, yeah... I've been busy.
New baby, tax season, annual conference, side projects....
I'm not sure when I'll be back to posting with any kind of regularity, or even if this blog has much of a future, but I'll be deciding that after tax season. Until then, check out an Iraqi nun making the case that the US needs to get out of Iraq.
TS has spanned the globe, and yours truly was caught up in the whirlwind. Specifically, this post.
Sometimes a certain kind of blogpost can make me remember how low an opinion I have of humanity (in practice, as opposed to as created and willed by God, of course).
I'm not saying I have a low opinion of the blogger, I'm saying see the comment at around 11:51:48.
Hey y'all!
I've been pretty busy for a couple of weeks. First I had an out of town conference, and then I was home for a couple of days before escaping for a quick mini-vacation. I'm back now, but strill incredibly busy at work and likely to remain so through, oh, approximately April 16th. I will continue to blog, but it will be even more sporadic than usual.
Check back tomorrow (or later in the week - I said it would be sporadic) for pictures from the impromptu jaunt to the woods.
You can now put me on your network. Here is the link.
I signed up mostly so I could put up a little widget over in the sidebar that lets me post links to recent articles. Now, instead of throwing bunches of links up very few days, I can post articles to del.icio.us pretty much as I read them and they will show up on under "MY BOOKMARKS" on the rfar right column. Pretty sweet, huh? I think so.
The Cub Reporter has an interesting meta-post up on the relationship between sports blogs and mainstream sports media.
This says it all:
...earlier this year one of The Cub Reporters sent out very cordial emails to a variety of “real” journalists asking their support in promoting the work done here [Papa-Lu sez: I mentioned this series here] by “Dying Cub Fan” arguing for Ron Santo’s selection to the Hall of Fame. The premise was that while the Veteran’s Committee casts the votes, pro-Santo publicity by the mainstream media could only be a positive influence on the VC’s decision. Some of the journalists sent courteous replies of varying degrees of interest. One “journalist,” however, responded with the terse rebuke that they knew of Santo’s credentials, and that it wasn’t up to the fans to decide.
I have no idea why commenting is so difficult. Error messages keep popping up. stblogs just added an authentication system, so that should make things easier, but it hasn't happened. Sorry!
If you really have something you're itching to say, you can get a free typekey account (it would let you comment on any blog that uses typekey).
It's not every day when I can hold my head up high and proclaim myself the number one Internet authority on a subject.
Here is the "proof": I am Google's number one search result for gem clear 190 proof.
I'm not even in the top 100 if you use Yahoo, so I guess we know which search engine I'll be using from now on.
Here's a tip to anybdy who wants something of me: just compliment my kids and you're in.
In that spirit, I direct you to Benedictxvithemagnificent.com, the site of a French artist who has portraits of the Holy Father for sale.
Speaking of my kids, expect to see an update of new pictures soon. Our digital camera was mislocated for a while, and we just found it last night.
The post two down from here, about the "new" Communion vessel rules, is drawing tons of hits from Bird Flu News site.
Apparently, that post makes this one of "The-Best-Bird-Flu-Blogs: The most Informative, interesting & controversial, Avian Flu, H5N1 Blogs."
Either there are not very many H5N1 blogs out there or perhaps BirdFluBreakingNews.com isn't the best source for all your bird-flu needs.
Not that I don't appreciate the traffic, I guess...
An old friend of this blog (well, actually of my old blog) has a couple of fresh posts up. Any of you fans of Dylan's fine blog should say hi to him if you can spare a moment.
It seems there is some renewed interest in The Catholic Nerd Blog.
I put up a few posts earlier this year, and suddenly there are 20 or so new comments and a whole lotta new hits.
Jenny, Monika? Feel like posting?
Things have been busy here Chez-Lu. We had an excellent Triduum, even making it to the Vigil at our parish (my first Easter Vigil celebrated somewhere other than the place where I was Confirmed and received my first Communion).
Regular, blogging has been impossible and looks to be so for a little while, but just 'cuz I hate to show up empty-handed, here's a nice little blurb on Easter in Mongolia, where 70 new Catholics were baptized this Easter, bringing the Catholic community there up to a grand total of 370 members.
Not many diocese can say they grew by 23% in one year...
Eh, I didn't expect to be taking a blogging break, but I don't know what else I expected would happen when I decided to spend my main conputer time otherwise as a penance. So while I'm not officially giving it up for Lent, don't expect much 'til April.
Because you never know who might show up.
My post a few down from here abour Ramesh clubbing Sullivan oer at The Corner drew a comment from... wait for it.... Ramesh himself.
I'm pretty sure he doesnt have me bookmarked or anything (he probably did a technorati search for posts on his excanges with Sully these past few days), but it's pretty cool nontheless, me thinks.
Using Internet Explorer, I cannot highlight and copy any text below the first line of each column. Does anybody know how I can solve that problem? I can email my stylesheet and template html to anybody who can help. Thanks!
I subscribe to a couple of RSS feeds that bring me news about the Pope and the Church. Well, the Pope feed has started bringing me... me. Today I recognized the title of the link in my newsreader as the same title I gave to the post two down. Sure enough, it was my own blog. It's sort of flattering, but sort of annoying too. I don't write news here, and any reader that picks up my blog entries is looking in the wrong space for news. Ah well... I guess I'm getting what I pay for...
Ha! I just noticed that I'm also getting news hits for the post about who should be the Cubs' new right fielder. It's currently the "Top Story." This is amusing.
Leave an anti-Catholic link in a comment unrelated to the post you where you leave it. No comment, no attempt at discussion, no email where you can be reached, just a link. Goodbye Mike! Drop me an email if you actually want to discuss anything.
Good? Bad?
I realize I still need to fix the archives and comments, what do you think about the main page?
I'm currently working on the template. Please excuse any ugliness you may see.
One $10 GE keyboard from Target later, and I'm back in business! It works great, but geez... clickety clack, clickety clack... I need a muffler.
Due to a busted keyboard at home. Yes, another busted keyboard. *Sigh*
