Daily Archives: March 10, 2005

Third Party BlogRolls — I've Had Enough

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I used to use BlogLines to generate the BLOGROLL in my sidebar.  I stopped because every time BlogLines went down, my entire site stopped loading.  So I switched to BlogRolling.  This morning my site stopped loading because BlogRolling was not responding.  That's it.  I've had it.

I have come to the conclusion that it is simply a bad idea to put third-party live-generated content on one's blog.  Face it, the more servers your blog depends on to load, the less likely it will succeed.  So I ditched my live generated blogroll and will replace it with a hand generated one later.

I stopped using FURL to generate my RECENT LINKS sidebar awhile back for the same reasons.

Don't get me wrong.  I love BlogLines for *tracking* blogs, but not for live-generating my BlogRoll… not at the cost of my site being unavailable… screw that!  Nothing annoyed me more than having my site not respond, and then clicking over to BlogLines and seeing the guy depicted at left with the following message:

Hi,

I'm the Bloglines Plumber.  Bloglines is down for a little fixer upper.  We will be back shortly.  Bloglines will be all better when I'm done with it.

Thanks,
The Bloglines Plumber

I mean Jesus. If they can have a backup server that produces this silly message, why can't my live-generated blogroll request get kicked to a backup server that spits back a “bloglines unavailable” message to display in my sidebar, instead of just hanging for 5 minutes?

So no third-party live generated content in my sidebar… no bloglines, no blogrolling, no google adsense, no furl.  The less servers I rely on, the better.

Dark Harvest — Review

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Okay I'm nine tenths of the way through this stinking pile of ass.  Here's my review of this ball of crap: this movie is so bad, I wouldn't wipe my butt with it.  Do NOT waste your time with Dark Harvest.

Sitting through this film is as enjoyable as eating a placenta.  Not that I've ever eaten one, mind you, but I've got a pretty good imagination, unlike the miscreants who foisted this abomination on the unsuspecting public.

Remember this review is coming from a guy who LIKES bad movies.  The only good part of this film is the one gratuitous nude scene featuring four very lovely no-name actresses skinny dipping.  Trust me, they may be pretty, but it isn't worth sitting through this to see it.

This flick is an 88 minute choad.  The dialog was moronic, the characters were cardboard cut-outs, and the story line was ridiculous.  Don't even get me started on the acting.  Brigitte Nielsen and Persis Khambatta are Emmy Award winners compared to these chowderheads.  Yeesh.

Hello “writer”? Do you actually KNOW anybody who talks like these people do?  I didn't think so.  You know why?  PEOPLE DON'T TALK LIKE THAT!  I mean Jesus, if you're going to make a film with people in it, please make an effort to write the sort of dialog people would actually say.

A long time ago I watched Savage Instinct (a.k.a. They Call Me Macho Woman) with my friends Maggie and James.  As I recall at several moments during the film, Maggie turned to me and said “I can't believe how bad this is!”  This film was less entertaining than Savage Instinct… at least the editting errors in that dipshit dork-o-rama were fun to laugh at.  This film isn't even fun to laugh at.

So consider this a friendly warning from old Uncle Chuck: if you are considering watching Dark Harvest, light yourself on fire instead.  You'll have more fun.