That's pronounced "Best o' Me", by the way, and it's my idea for a new meme. There's all sorts of compilation memes for current content such as The Carnival of the Vanities and its offspring or Kate's Letter of the Day and Hunting of the Snark. We've even got LeeAnn's new Monday Madness and The Cheddar X that drive new content. But what is there for old stuff? Those really great posts from a couple of months or a year ago that new readers don't know about or that even regular readers would like to see again (if only they remembered)? Nuthin, that's what! more...

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1 I like it. I always feel like my best stuff is lurking way back in my archives and I don't even really HAVE any archives to speak of, but you know?--It just seems like the day I really think I hit it out of the park it's like, a Sunday or some day when no one reads anything, and then the good post gets buried under a mound of crap because I start posting new stuff just to keep it updated. Ugh.

Posted by: ilyka at November 26, 2003 06:30 AM (wZkdK)

2 I like it. The best part about resurrecting stuff from the past is looking at things you wrote back when and trying to figure out what brought THAT up at the time. Nothing younger than two months sounds good.

Posted by: LeeAnn at November 26, 2003 08:13 AM (HxCeX)

3 Okay, I think I'm going to go with it. I don't want to start during the holiday weekend since bloguse is so light. I'll muster support (email harrassment) next week and we'll get this meme launched the following week. What is the best day of the week for a new complilation meme? I don't want to compete with the Carnivals or any of the other big boys.

Posted by: Jim at November 28, 2003 09:45 AM (fkewd)

4 Lesse, Friday is the Friday Five, Monday is Monday Memory, not sure really what days Bonfire or Carnival are, and isn't Cheddar X on Thursdays? Weekends, while pretty much open, have little to offer since blogging is lighter on weekends.... my vote is Mondays, since mine is a mere tadpole and unlikely to suck away any notice from yours.

Posted by: LeeAnn at November 28, 2003 01:01 PM (HxCeX)

5 My "Best of" has gone the way of the Dodo Bird -- due in part to the fact that I have a vicious ex-wife lurking and monitoring my every post. (Most posts referencing my husband -- her EX HUSBAND) have been removed. I would LOVE to send you one -- but it doesn't fit your criteria. I think, however, it is a SMASHING idea, darlink. Mondays are a good day -- but what about Hump Day? Nobody has one of those Memes yet, do they? (I'm -- as always -- hopelessly out of touch.) We have Wednesday Recycle day here. Just throwing out ideas. . . .LOL

Posted by: margi at November 28, 2003 06:28 PM (4jrV0)

6 Monday works for me. Start the week off with some great posts. How can you go wrong with that? I'll start advertising this coming Monday for the first edition to start the Monday next. Don't want to get it lost in the holiday lull after all. You've got plenty o' stuff, Margi! Why, you've got at least 3 posts about Snooze Button Dreams. Those are all golden. ;-)

Posted by: Jim at November 29, 2003 09:13 AM (fkewd)

7 It's a really, really, really good idea. Monday, though - ugh. I hate Monday. How about Wednesday?

Posted by: Beth Donovan at November 29, 2003 09:07 PM (igCu1)

8 Wednesday is the Carnival of the Vanities so that's a definite no-no. Blog Mela is Thursdays. Friday 5, Cheddar X and SnarkHunt are on Friday. Tuesday is the Bonfire of the Vanities and (I think) the Carnival of the Capitalists. Monday is the only day that's really clear of a conglomeration/multi-post type meme.

Posted by: Jim at November 29, 2003 11:40 PM (fkewd)

9 Hey! What about Monday Memory? Is that not a conglomeration/multi-post type meme? Okay, lemme rephrase... is that not a wanna-be conglomeration/multi-post type meme? Monday is a big day, there's plenty of room for memeage.

Posted by: LeeAnn at November 30, 2003 08:18 PM (HxCeX)

10 Monday Memory is more of the assignment/trackback format, like Cheddar X and Friday 5. With the Bestofme Symphony being the conglomeration style the two should be able to coexist peacefully. ;-)

Posted by: Jim at December 01, 2003 04:22 AM (fkewd)

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I've replaced the weblog description at the top of the main page with a random thought. This weblog defies description anyway.

If anybody is interested in the script for it, let me know.

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Made one last change for the collapsable lists, hopefully they'll work for Mozillans now. If not, I haven't a clue where else to go with them. But the links are still there for them, they just don't get them nice and tight and collapsed, so I'm going to keep them either way.

Speaking of collapsable lists, I've moved "Best of" to a collapsed list and expanded it with entries from other categories. There's only one recipe post right now but there will be more. And of course there is only one Bageldonut and so long as we stay in God's good graces there shall never be another.

I had to get rid of that graphic for the Guest Map. Any time I saw this site it was there flashing at me. I despise animated graphics on web sites. Flash is good. Animated gifs blow. So now it's just a link and will get less attention but oh well, such is life. I'd rather have less people sign it and have it not annoy me than vice versa.

The Recent Posts section was removed as well. It only duplicates the posts on the front page and last time I asked nobody admitted to using it. Clutter. Gone.

And I finally added Survivor to the sidebar. Woo Hoo! It was my intent from the beginning of the game but I am horribly, horribly lazy.

My wishlist is linked too. Not that I'm expecting loads of presents but this way you can check out the wierdness that is on my list to Santa.

Last but not least, the Ecosystem doohicky is there too. Don't know if I'll keep that or not but I figured I'd give it a shot. I don't like the way it shows up on multilines unnecessarily. Anybody know a way to get that so it's just a regular line of text instead of 4 lines?

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Could all y'all Mozilla users let me know if the collapsable lists in my sidebar are working now? That's the stuff under the "Linkage" section.

Thanks!

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Buggre Alle This is in my daily reads now. I've been checking out Joey's blog since it showed up in my referral logs a couple days ago but this post earns an instant slot in the sidebar.

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Maybe censorship isn't all bad after all. My own encounter with it really brought out some great discussion and showed me that when push comes to shove there are people out there who'll stand up for me (at least when I'm right). That's so cool.

And it's given me something very precious. A link from Meryl Yourish!

Please note that anybody who attributes sarcasm to that exclamation will be virtually slapped upside the head by yours truly. Meryl's was the first blog I ever followed seriously. This was before I really even knew what the hell a blog was. She's been over in my "Daily Reads" since this blog's first incarnation as "Apropos of Nothing" (which nobody even knows about, that's how bad it was).

So getting a link from Meryl is very super cool to me. And to make it even better, she's in support of my position.

Thanks, Meryl!

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I've had over 2000 hits from people searching for that porn video of a certain hotel heiress. It's not here!

For all of you folks who came here looking for it - sorry you wasted your time. The closest thing I have is The Somnolence of Clouds. It has sex and nudity and there's even a certain amount of controversy over it. Go check it out. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Update: Over 7000 visitors looking for a porn video that isn't here. Gawd. Remind me never to comment on porn videos again.

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Hi ho the derry-o, a banning we will go!

I had my very first comment spammer. Yay. Can anybody tell me how putting an advertisement in a weblog post that is over a month old is going to translate into sales? Idiots.

Anyway, IP 81.218.181.128 has been banned. If you are connecting via Bezeqint.net you may have problems here now. Drop me an email if you do.

And if anybody else would like to inform this jackoff of exactly what an ass he actually is, here's his contact info (from the whois database):

berr, poule poule_ber@yahoo.com
12 Kimosol st.
Limasol, xx 79324
GR
+732-66974858

His domain was set up just a day ago at EV1servers. Jackass wasted no time getting out the spam, eh?

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Well I finally took a couple of minutes to gather a "best of Snooze" list and stuck it in the sidebar. Hopefully that will help new visitors to decide on making SBD a regular stop (or adding it to the NetNanny filter). Also bumped down the archive section and the recent posts section. Thinking of removing the recent posts section. Does anybody actually use this?

And, most importantly, I've come to the decision that my blog looks like crappola. I got half way into making it presentable until I realized that it was more actual effort than I was willing to put into it so it's stuck half way between a basic outline of a scheme and what I was going for.

Being a logical sort I've come to the conclusion that my skills as a website designer are pretty lowsy. Back when Notepad was high tech I was right in the forefront of web design. These days I'm still using Notepad. Say no more.

So, I will swallow my pride and ask for somebody to do the work for me assistance. Anybody out there that can give me a clean and fairly unique style sheet for my blog? The only requirements are a single sidebar setup, white or very light for the bulk of the background (posting area) and no pastels. Teal is cool. Pastel green is not.

Your reward shall be your noted presence in my sidebar in a "Site designed by" section thingy. And my undying gratitude, of course.

I could use a decent header graphic too if anybody's interested. Apart or with a workable style.

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Crapola. I totally missed my counter passing 20,000 hits. I was going to do a blog retrospective there. Ah, well. We'll reschedule that for 25,000 then.

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