Google Album Archive is shutting down

In case you missed the email from Google about Album Archive:

Download your content from the Google Album Archive

After July 19, 2023, the Google Album Archive won’t be available. Until then, you can use Takeout to download a copy of your Album Archive data.

So, I wanted to see what happens if I upload a new image now.

[Update] No warning messages or anything.  It's a little unclear from the above whether images that have been uploaded through Blogger for posting on a blog are going to vanish.  I don't think so, but I'm going to download them all anyway, and then see what happens on July 20.

(original source)

PSA: missing images on this blog

Most of the images on this blog were once hosted by Photobucket, from back in the day when they offered a free tier for hosting.  They no longer do, so you're not going to see a lot of what used to be here.

Sorry about that.  It just didn't seem worth paying for a service to continue serving up images that likely have not been viewed in years. 

I do have all of those images archived locally, so if there's something you want to see, please send me an email, or @ me on Twitter or Facebook, with the URL of the post in question.  I will be more than happy to update the post asap.

Thanks.

Image credit, long overdue

Once upon a time, MK mailed me a cartoon, on paper. I used it as a bookmark (the paper kind, in a paper book), as I often do with such things, because they're fun to come across when I re-read the book years later. I liked this particular cartoon so much that when blogging came along, I decided to use it as my About Me image. Since then, I've been using it, or pieces of it, for my online avatar pretty much everywhere, including as the favicon for this site.

Thanks to Sean Taggart, I now know the artist: the late and apparently great John Callahan.

More here. This profile, from 1992, is especially recommended.

Another test

ibid.

test for ifttt

Just a test post for ifttt.

(minor housekeeping note)

The post label the myth of "voter fraud" and the reality of voter suppression is suddenly not allowed, and I'm guessing it's because the new Blogger interface simply does not care for scare quotes.

I put this post up just in case someone linked to the old label; such links should be updated to point to the new label, the myth of voter fraud and the reality of voter suppression. I will be adjusting the labels on the old posts momentarily.

Sorry if you clicked over just to read a post that is boring even by the "standards" of this blog. (Ah, good, scare quotes are still okay in the post body.) As partial compensation, and because I believe that if there is anything more important to modern humor than scare quotes, it is Venn diagrams, allow me to pass along this fine image, sent to me by MK. You even get to click it to big it!

Apparently, you can now see my blog posts on my Google+ page

From now on. Assuming I clicked all the right buttons, I mean.

Q: Why would you want to see my blog posts on Google+?
A: Four letters: xkcd.

If it works, thank this page.

[Added] It may require switching to the new Blogger interface to make this happen. This may only be a temporary requirement: I did have to switch to make this post appear on my G+ page, because the particular Setting referred to in the page linked to above does not appear under Settings in the old interface. I will have to wait until I put up another post to see if the setting change I made under the new interface persists, even though I have switched back to the old interface.

[Added2] It does appear that you have to be using the new Blogger interface is you want the Google+ posting to happen as described above; i.e., the pop-up prompt did not appear, nor did the auto-posting happen when I switched back to the old interface and put up a new post. If you really hate the new interface and want your Blogger blog posts to appear on G+, you can do this by hand: switch to the new interface, click "Share" under the post(s) you want to share, switch back to the old interface. Tedious, I grant.

Minor wrinkle

I added the Followers widget to the sidebar, because why not? If you're a follower and would rather not have your icon displayed there, visit your Blogger Dashboard, scroll down to the Reading List section, and click the blue Manage button at the bottom of that section. It should be evident what to do from there, but if not, please ask for more details.

If you don't have a Blogger Dashboard, you might have a look at the Google Friend Connect customization page, under the "Sites you've joined" item.

And thanks for following!

That pop-up ...

... should only appear once per actual visit to this blog. I'll be removing it in a few hours or days. Let me know if it's so annoying that you'd like me to get rid of it sooner.

More info at AmericanCensorship.org and FightForTheFuture.org.

Update 2011-12-02: Now disabled. Thanks to all who participated.

Note to Google Reader readers, Facebook fans, etc.

Today is a good day to visit my blog directly. Thanks.

[Update] Overlay script now removed. For now. See also.

Ping

In case you already looked at the autumn leaves post, be advised that it has been updated.

Because you don't get enough spam already

I just added a gadget over in the sidebar that will allow you to sign up to get notified by email of new posts on this blog. Please let me know if you have any problems with it, should you decide to try it.

If it needs saying: I will not share your email address with anyone. (I am not even sure that I can see the addresses that get typed in; they're probably all handled by Google/Blogger behind the scenes.)

[Added] I put in one of my other addresses to test it. It looks like you'll get at most one email per day, and you'll only get that if I post something new that day. If you want to be notified more frequently -- i.e., as each new post appears --you might want to follow me on some social networking thing (links over there in the sidebar) or use a feed reader. Details available on request -- drop a note in the Comments or send me an email.

[Added2] Just got my first email from the above. It'll be from bjkeefe, with subject "bjkeefe," which is probably not likely to be the most informative line in your Inbox, but there it is. Also, it doesn't look like images or embedded videos come through, which may be to your liking or may not. It's easy enough to click over to the relevant post(s), though.

Do you ever come here on your phone? [UPDATED 2x]

UPDATE: Mobile template is now on. UPDATE2: Now back off.

Blogger has rolled out a new feature that they claim will make viewing this blog on your phone better:

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Having problems commenting? [UPDATED]

It's not you.

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Did your comment go missing?

Last August, Blogger added a spam filter to the commenting system on all Blogspot blogs. Recently, it seems to be producing an increased number of false detections, on this blog, at least.

Unfortunately, there is no way for me to turn it off, nor is there any sort of whitelist functionality. So, if you click Publish and then wonder why you're not seeing your comment appear, it's likely that your comment got incorrectly marked as spam.

Be advised that I do get an email notification every time a comment is posted, whether Blogger thinks it's spam or not, so I will mark your comment as not-spam and cause it to be published as soon as I next check my mail. And please feel free to send me an email and ask, if it seems as though enough time has gone by that I should have noticed.

Sorry for this occasional irritation.

As much as I hate to applaud something that leans on stereotypes ...

... this is a good rant.

Thanks for the link, Twin. And the reminder.

Reminder? Yes.

Once upon a time, Ed joined Instaputz. And for a while, he was nice enough to ping us Instaputz readers when he had posted something new at Gin and Tacos. Then he stopped doing that, even as he continues contributing to Instaputz, and I for some reason never thought to go over to G&T to see if that blog was still running.

That oversight has since been corrected. G&T has been added to the feed reader and the blogroll. The About page has been revisited. That is a good About page.

I will also commend to your attention something I'd not noticed before:

Statement of political philosophy

This post should be useful when preparing your formal complaints of ideological bias, the argument of last resort in post-Nixon political discourse.

Click that clicky.

Disambiguation Notice

[Update 2025-05-23 13:27] Sorry that almost all of the following links are now out of date. Either Brendan Keefe is becoming an endangered species or most of my namesakes have moved on to better places. The last ("uncountable") one still works, and is still a delight.

 

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Not me.

(Not that, on a day like today, I wouldn't like it to be.)

Now there are three. (No. Sadly, I myself have yet to win an Emmy.) [Added: Or a Peabody.]

[Update 2011-03-03 16:14] Make that four.

[Update 2011-06-30 07:30] Five.

[Update 2011-11-17 13:30] Six. And dammit, if someone mails him a surprise book when they meant to send it to me … ;)

[Update 2011-06-17 16:48] Seven.

[Update 2012-07-26 18:26] Eight. (See photo credit.)

[Update 2017-02-19 13:58] It's becoming uncountable.

(Shortened permalink: v.gd/T9f1C9.)

Instant Cappuccino Relaunched

My friend Maha Rafi Atal's blog, Instant Cappuccino, has gotten a makeover and has fresh hot new content! Therefore, we will all update our blogrolls.

Invariably, I find something to disagree with in virtually everything Maha says. That is what makes the blogosphere great. Sometimes!

Also, Maha tweets.

You could spend time a lot less productively elsewhere, is the point. Go see.

Thanks, @Dlvrit_support!

Appreciate the rapid response time and the clear explanation.

Testing dlvr.it

This post (its title and a link to it, I mean) should show up on my Twitter feed within the next fifteen minutes, assuming I did things correctly. Same for new posts from here on out.

Can you feel the excitement???