Amanda’s Random Rantings

According to GoDaddy who coined the term, in April of this year, 35 million domain names were registered, and 32.7 million of them were not paid for. On the last day of March, approximately 764,672 .COM names were registered, but only 61,169 (less than 10%) were actually retained. DirectNic alone registered 8.4 million domains in April, but only retained 51.4 thousand of them. He estimates that on any given day, 3.5 million domain names are tied up by domain kiters. The process is clearly automated.

n addition to viewing data from the last month, you can now view performance data for the last thirty days. This date range is a new selection in the settings section of the create report page.

Here’s the full tracklisting of the album, which includes the usual suspects (Jack Johnson, Matt Costa) and some notably interesting inclusions (M. Ward, Kings of Convenience, The Beta Band):

It’s nice that I am offered a choice, but why mixing something useful (Enhanced Media Library) with something less useful and potentially confusing (MusicRank)? Google does this in Google Toolbar for Firefox with PageRank and Enhanced Safe Browsing. They use two radio buttons instead of two checkboxes for each feature.

We have just moved over to the new blogger template which makes it possible to search for themes within the blog. Just click on any word next to the word labels for any post and get all posts on a similar theme.

“Regardless of whether a substantial focus on marginal tax rates may have been appropriate when such rates were 70 percent or higher, that day has long passed, and therefore such a focus is no longer relevant.”

Blog your Sugar Lower Experience on Friday January 27th, 2006 and with Sugar Low in the subject line. In the main body of the email please state your name, your blog’s name, the permalink to you SHF post, the name of your dessert and your location. Depending on the number of entries, I will round up all the entries on my blog as soon as possible thereafter.

We clearly want to be in the centre of the process of European integration. We want a Europe that is a strong voice for freedom, democracy, peace and reconciliation throughout the world. We are convinced of the need to go on with the process of enlargement of the European Union. We seek security in the cooperation with other nations. We value the transatlantic link. We remain a strong supported of the United Nations.

These were the award-winning pitmasters the good people at The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party had managed to bring in for their 4th annual bash, and we were particularly excited about Ubon’s “Champion’s Choice” and Bib Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q’s pulled pork shoulder, and Mitchell’s BBQ whole hog, all three of which were accompanied by legendary cole slaws, and intrigued by Smoki O’s St.-Louis-style rib tips, which came with baked beans. These outfits represented the styles and traditions we were most interested in taste-testing, and the fact that they also had the best names didn’t hurt either.

More importantly, this version addresses the prototype issue. Using the standard @InjectObject annotation messes up when the bean being injected is not a singleton. Non-singleton Spring beans, aka prototypes, must be re-acquired from the BeanFactory in order to get the correct, new version.

 The Moderate Party under Fredrik Reinfeldt not only did its best election since 1928, but also the best election result of any non-socialist party in modern times, narrowly beating the record set by the Centre party in the 1973 election.
“The changes on Bigdaddy are relatively subtle (less ranking changes and more infrastructure changes). Most of the changes are under the hood, and this infrastructure prepares the framework for future improvements throughout the year.”

I’m sure everyone that cares has heard new about Joanna Newsom’s new album by now. The track list that’s floating around includes a song called “Monkey & Bear” (which we’re claiming right now as this blog’s theme song), as well as “Emily“, which we posted a live version of Here it is again, in case you missed it the first time around:

Local search is a growing business as many people try to find better products and services in their neighborhood. Local advertising is much more targeted so it’s more relevant to the potential buyer. “We’re working hard to integrate local search and local advertising. Most of the business that people are involved in is local. Most of the things you buy on a daily basis are from local businesses, and that business is probably larger than the current advertising business because they’re generally undeserved.” said Eric Schmidt two years ago. “The longer term goal is to have businesses give us very timely local information. So, for example, they’ll say we have too much of this or too much of that product, and we want to have a sale. The goal is to have the computers arrange that real time and send out targeted advertising to interested parties nearby.”

This is the justification used by countless aspiring writers for signing with an agent who a) has no relevant professional credentials, b) has no track record of sales (sometimes after many years in business), c) has a website/contract/correspondence laced with mis-spellings and grammatical errors, or d) all of the above.

Now you can showcase and separately store your favorite digg stories by using the new “My #1 Story” feature. Starting today, every time you digg a story an icon will appear next to the story title.

Clicking the icon will save and lock that story to the top of your digg user profile. This will let your friends know what you consider to be the most important story on digg at any given time. These #1 stories are also saved in a separate “My #1″ archive that keeps a chronological record of all your previous favorites. Think of it as your bin for just your absolute favorite digg stories.

Enjoy!

Here is what I see: After rising substantially from 1986 to 2000, income inequality is essentially the same in 2004 (the most recent year of data) as it was in 2000.

Right now Luis is very busy doing the artwork for a major new book on dinosaurs written by Tom Holtz. Judging from the art I’ve seen, it will be spectacular and one of the most attractive dinosaur books ever. Several plates depict a taxonomic panoply of a particular group, and we also have the first accurate life restoration of the bizarre Lurdusaurus, as well as new restorations of Dilong, Guanlong, Scutellosaurus and so many others. What caught my imagination in particular were his restorations of the amazing diversity of recently named oviraptorosaurs (a black-and-white version depicting this diversity has been published before (Gee & Rey 2003), but it did not include as many taxa). In fact there are now so many members of this group that it is proving difficult to keep up, and difficult to keep track of what is what, especially given that several specimens have been incorrectly allocated to a genus and later re-allocated or re-named. In fact several discoveries relevant to this area have appeared in recent months and I’ve only just done reading them, so now is a good time to review it.

So why is Amr Moussa holding a press conference in the Grand Serail today (right now actually) when he said outright that he will not disclose any specific information or points on the outcome of the negotiations? All he is saying is that there is progress (takaddoum). That’s it!

I’ve written so exhaustively about my Katrina experience
for Slate that I depress (and bore) myself, so I will try to look on the
bright side for a moment. First of all I think it’s a splendid coincidence
that I had completed research on my Cheever biography and transcribed
every last note to my laptop exactly five days before Katrina hit. This
was pretty crucial, since my paper research wasn’t very portable and
we had to bug out in a hurry. When I returned to our flooded house, a
month later, my copy of Cheever’s journal (four linear feet) was
solid mold.

This school board race has made it to the pages of The New York Times! And look at what is gracing the article: pics of Eric Smith and Yours Truly (wielding my lightsaber no less!) and a still from Richard Moore’s ad. Hey Eric, I should have done what you did and put my website address up the whole time the ad was running… and you thought your meter had been going crazy before!

I know it seems remedial, but this prime directive can befuddle the glossiest of correspondents. Just ask any photog whose jugular throbbed as he tried to stretch three shots of some bit player over a minute and a half of impromptu profile. Scour every second of that fresh footage, embrace its rhythms and fill in the gaps and every the surly burn-out at the end of the hall will want to work with you.

Please keep me safe from all danger and harm.
Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.Please broaden my mind that I can accept all things. Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over. And It’s the best response when I’m pushed beyond my limits.I know that when I can’t pray, You listen to my heart.Continue to use me to do Your will.

Just saw Christine today, and she looks pretty good for having going through hell. She looked tired, but still able to laugh. I was lucky, because today was a “good” day for her; “good” meaning her nausea was at a mild “car sickness” level. I can’t imagine feeling like that constantly, 24 hours non stop.

Ramadan is coming soon, as well as the 30 days of prayer for Muslims. Please plan on joining us September 24 - October 23 as we pray for these people. This is a time where they focus their prayers on Allah and the prophet Muhammad. We desire to pray that God will show himself to them as they seek to find the truth. Pray the God will raise up people willing to go and show them the truth about the Love of Christ. More information about the 30 days of prayer can be found at www.worldchristian.com.

Currency markets have been jumpy lately with the dollar’s value taking some big hits. The latest talk has been that the US economy is slowing, the housing market is tanking and the US may slip into recession. Bad news for the dollar? You bet–but not for the reasons you might think. Currency traders aren’t worried about the US being in a recession, as this discusses they are worried that a recession would create pressure for rate cuts to help the situation. As always, capital is foremost interested in inflation–if they could be sure the Fed would keep interest rates up when the US economy slid down the tubes the dollar might be riding high right now.

The difference is not in the outward issues of which words are said; the difference is in the heart. To pray for men to see comes from a heart that see men as an audience to impress. To pray in ways that are intended to manipulate God comes from a heart that sees God as an audience to impress. But this prayer is not meant to impress God or man.

    Whether we engage in it or not, we are all almost daily witnesses to road rage and the related foolishness that comes from it. Signal lights too long, someone cutting into one’s lane too close, a sudden bad decision, an ill-advised attempt to gain an advantage in traffic—these are all very common motivators to strong feeling.

Warning to locals:

• I saw a girl worker at Culvers Frozen Custard on Research Forest leave the bathroom without washing her hands.
• I saw a dude at Double Daves Pizzeria sneeze into the pizza, not once, not twice but three times. Mr. Snot did not wash his hands the third time. Figured, “What the, Hey…”

Scott and Amy Farmer, missionaries here at the International House of Prayer, just had a beautiful little baby girl, Olivia Anne. The are asking for our prayers - Olivia’s heart has not formed fully.

Dom Denis Chambault was translated to glory on May 3, 1963. As Superior of d’Alleray Priory in Paris, Dom Denis (formerly “Lucien”) cared for all the souls who came seeking advice or his charismatic gifts. (He was for the last 17 years of his life.) In addition to maintaining the traditional Benedictine life and hours, he served the ancient Roman rite Liturgy of St. Gregory (the so-called “Tridentine Mass”). His devotion and reputation attracted a following throughout the French capital, and he remains today an uncanonized saint.