Developers are Crabgrass : Dale Carnegie; AOL showing why it is a king-sized failure, anguish, and the mysteries of blogging. Backup redux.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Dale Carnegie; AOL showing why it is a king-sized failure, anguish, and the mysteries of blogging. Backup redux.

Besides being a commentary on the human condition and how NOT to do business, in a way this post is for others. For those whose off-site-from-the-home-computer web-based content is of value. Crabgrass archives are all on the web, out of that league, being just meanderings, complaints, infrequent praise. Still, I'd not like to lose content.

Home machines, we all know we should backup files, we seldom do.

As to web content - Dale Carnegie, seventy years or so ago, wrote his book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People." You can buy a copy for very little, from Amazon.com, although anyone who would loses respect, in my view. It looks to be schlock. Yet people take time over Dale Carnegie, see here and here, and some, as indicated at the dalecarnegie.com website, hope to make some cash flow their way by pitching "partnering," Dale's way, this screenshot:

Some content is better if lost, but that is a digression.

For an eclectic personal reason, I had cause to visit this website, homepage here, and noted at the foot of each page that background, border and button Celtic art was from a linked page - and that gets to the heart of the post. To understand, open either of those last pages and whether you like Celtic art or not, open the link "http://hometown.aol.com/Cyrion7/celtic/index.htm". WOW!

You get routered over to a different link, http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown.

A terse post, then a series of pissed-off and anguished comments. Have a look. I see a lesson there, for all of us who blog.

And the photos of trusting people -- AOL subscribers (if any are left trusting AOL after the blogs got torched), are about to further be AOL'ed into the ozone layer of Internet history also, photo-wise, on New Year's Eve, so Happy New Year, if you miss that message and lack home machine backup.

Arguably there was some effort by Kelly Wilson and The AOL Journals Team to give advance notice of blitzing stuff into non-existence [server disabling] but clearly from the earlier link comments, many missed the word and learned of the disabling the hard way - after the fact, without any cut-over to Blogger. Sad. True, however.

I'd hate to be Kelly Wilson in all this, the lightning rod person when others higher in the AOL food chain called the shots, but that's why Kelly gets a paycheck, to be the point of attack.

Sad, again. But true again, however.

One comment in the first Kelly Wilson post I linked to said, try to salvage what you can from the WayBack Machine Internet archive, see here and here. Putting in the link "http://hometown.aol.com/Cyrion7/celtic/index.htm" into the WayBack Machine entry window gets: this, active archive, 1998 to 2003.

Years of work. Blottoed by AOL, the user-friendly service provider, sort of.

Editing the URL for that archive, from:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hometown.aol.com/Cyrion7/celtic/index.htm

by changing the end "index.htm" to "*" gives a file listing, showing none of the site's images were archived, only opening HTML pages, apparently.

http://web.archive.org/web/*sr_11nr_10/http://hometown.aol.com/Cyrion7/celtic/*

(That edit to get the listing of files from the returned page is not well known, but there, if you remember when next using the WayBack Machine service.)

Opening one of the archive item listings shows Karen Nicholas was the Celtic art page creator-owner. Also you can see that she had two links to her other AOL pages, each getting the same "sorry Charlie" page link-over, to Kelly Wilson's "Hometown Has Been Shut Down" message. Curiously, at least two of Karen Nicholas' older links are still active, one a Yahoo Geocities item, see here and here. They're not the best Celtic pages, more on that later.

This Google = "Karen Nicholas" celtic -- shows a number of sites crediting their background art, buttons, etc., to the now dead AOL - Karen Nicholas site. That's a lot of love down the tubes, courtesy of AOL and how NOT to do business.

For example, the starting Kristen McDermott page, and "Celtic Studies at UCLA" respectively use images to tile their background in a somewhat standard website design fashion,

these being the base images (from the Karen Nicholas collection) tiled two dimensionally in one instance, and vertically in the other (viewing page source for these site pages will show BACKGROUND commands, for those who care to have a look,image names in the page source files being lt_catknot.gif and brdr7001.gif respectively).

So, a few interesting "still alive" sites for those who like Celtic art, there is this Google. There is this, from Google Images. Some active artists are creating new things in the Celtic tradition, in jewelry, tattoos, and graphics. Find tattoos on your own.

From Women's March - 10-2-2021 - imagery speaks

Image is cropped from one of a series of Buzzfeed images. Click the image to access the Buzzfeed coverage of that march. This was a major event in Washington, D.C., and it happened mid-way after Trump had been fired by voters in the 2020 election, and before the one approaching. To assert as MN GOP politicians have that abortion is not an issue is an insensitive fiction concocted in some smoke filled GOP backroom. Do not let a GOP intent to deceive misleed your vote. The issue IS ON THE BALLOT. Women deserve dominion over their bodies, we all deserve privacy in our lifetime decision making.

Cracker fear and loathing toward Critical Race Theory has its precedent.

The precedent - Integration dodging intent behind segregated "non-profit" private schools, after the Brown decision was issued. Leading a twisted mind, Paul Weyrich, to issue-monger.

Politico in 2014 posted the true history of the ginned up propagandized opposition to abortion among the nation's hordes of Evangelicals as the "Weyrich solution" to energize the base. Leading to grave mischief. Evangel-Jesus-jockeys, with fellow travelers, (many of whom are surveyed as not as worked up about Roe as Alito would want you to falsely believe). Some, "foaming-at-the-mouth" rabid, however -

This is for you, Gipper and crowd.

Click that Wikipedia image, get THE STORY (and a link to the enlarged image, copyright info and all). GET: Online info leading into a new year via some pre-1947 new "old thoughts." New to many first time voters - this cycle. Not the thoughts, but the history. A history not to be found in Gipper speech transcripts, nor the Gipper's presidential library papers. Hello, Joe, Dem Party history, so pay attention. Pre-Clinton, Pre-Obama, but Dem party new-old nostalgia. Good old ways. Show the guts to walk that talk.

War Crime - Crime Against Humanity - Today, Now.

Let's go Brandon?

Yes, it relates to a NASCAR event, NASCAR attendees making a statement. But given how fifteen bucks got disappeared, and now Build Back Inconsequentially is pending, shouldn't we all chant? Trust whoever you care to, but wouldn't you like to see trust earned? Actions speak louder than words, while inaction when action is needed speaks loudest? Truthfully so? Pharma prices if anything have gone upward since Trump left while Manchin's daughter's a part of it via her grotesque EpiPen market manipulation and price gouging (a/k/a contract, combination, conspiracy in restraint of trade to gain market segment monopolization). Who might they want to fool? Biden's Justice Department appearing to not be looking at EpiPen under antitrust criminal law? Student debt relief is an aim of many, yet Biden has made no move to be helpful. Never mind Medicare for All sidetracked - Not even cosmetic change is being made to Obama's Romneycare? Taking progressives for a buggy ride? DC redux? Money talks? A Congress of old owned lackeys? Let's go Brandon?

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MYOGA - Make Yacht Owners Gain Again

A RIGHT - not a privilege - EVERYBODY'S RIGHT - no limits

JOE BIDEN DOES NOT SUPPORT MEDICARE FOR ALL. That is because Biden's billionaires want to keep every last one of the people beholden, manageable that way, willing to compromise and to worry about the next paycheck and the mortgage, rather than worrying abstractly over the grossly unfair distribution of wealth and power in our nation. Reform of that situation is needed. HOWEVER, with the Biden White House team, we must wait for HOPE and CHANGE. He owes, as a career politician now a millionaire himself, after NOT ever biting a feeding hand. We need Bernie.

Bernie ran for President. Who cares?

Bernie Sanders early 2019 crowds from before the Democratic Party oligarchs did him in, Clyburn, Bloomberg, Biden - the usual suspects. What resonated with those crowds - a candidate for justice and fairness, finally and for us all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0 Joe Biden could have a Lincolnian legacy, if he cuts and runs from the big donor class he has so far courted, makes his platform the heart of that speech and delivers on the promises. If there is the will, there is the way.

More meddlesome in U.S. of A. politics. More money spent over Russians? Does that compute?

click here for image source plus NYTimes coverage.

Will there be blowback? There seems to be a disproportionate sense to DC's media-mania focus. Russians seem to make better theater, while Israelis generate movement on a scale Putin could only dream of? Essays and books could be written . . . However, in 2012 Romney and Bibi preceded Donald and Vlad mischief, in attempted outsider bias of U.S. national elections. Donald never visited Vlad in Russia. Romney did visit and schmooze Bibi, in Israel. "Double standard?" Go figure.

Doug Wardlow's police pal, Bob Kroll.

POLICE ENDORSED has to have a meaning, a context, and a discernible personality. G.R.Anderson writing over a decade ago, in a CityPages item, puts in a context, Bob Kroll, further fleshed out, here. It behooves the public to know who the supporters of a politician are, (photo above), since that reflects on the politician. "Rule of Law" must have a meaning to Kroll, one which few would share. Why is Mainstream Media not asking about POLICE ENDORSED, a Wardlow tout point?

IN ADDITION: In this image, isn't it Bob Kroll standing to the right hand of friend Wardlow? Looks like him. Paired Ellison haters? Anti-Muslim cohorts? How far back does the pairing go? And how has the pairing grown over time or evolved, from what start? Is there some Dobson joinder? The press should inquire.

Douglas Gary Wardlow did not merely throw the first stone . . .

He unleashed an ADF salvo, earning his ADF paycheck. Read about it, here, here and here. Outlawyered on appeal, Wardlow now apparently has no ADF paycheck. Others for ADF are pressing on. ADF appears to be a win-or-go-home team. James Dobson's team, so walk the line. Whatever you think you want, trust me, you do not want James Dobson anywhere near our attorney general office. A Berniecrat is the other choice, and is a good choice because Bernie's policies are the only future the Democratic Party has whether they accept that or not. Aimee Stephens is as human as I am, as human as Wardlow and Dobson and Hillstrom and Pelikan, the latter two seeming to have gone silent. Ms. Stevens should not be bedeviled in this Twenty-first Century. She merely wanted to be herself, do her job, and get her share. That is what each of us wants for ourselves. Evolution of politics is overdue. Ellison got piled on; is getting piled on. Click the above image.

Sell 'em Prosperity Gospel and feed 'em beans. Some never catch on.

What is Prosperity Gospel? It is: Channeling the mind of a brick into GOP and related dogma. Read this Minnesota story. Click the image to read its fine print. (image source: Bluestem Prairie) The image shows a part of the "mind" of a 30 yr. and still-going Prosperity Gospel faithful attendee. A Dev Crabgrass post fleshes things out. Islamaphobia is but one dimension of a larger "GOP base" stupidity. Stupidity you can bank on. HINT: Follow links in items linked here. Questions will get answered. And --- There's more -

DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.

a DINO with an up-top money slot

This link. Al Franken in the linked WashTimes item is quoted:
“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."

Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.

Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.