Patience: Irregular Times Moving to New Server

Over the next 24 hours, Irregular Times will be moving to a new, souped up web server with tail fins and everything. In the meantime, you may find that every now and then things stop working here. Please be patient …

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Irregular Times Introduces E-mail Newsletters

After the old CafePress system for delivering occasional newsletters broke down recently, we started looking for a way to introduce a new newsletter system to bring you the information you want from Irregular Times (and nothing else) to your e-mail …

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Same Information, New Theme for Irregular Times. Thoughts?

We tried out a new visual theme for Irregular Times a few days ago with the goal of decluttering the page. When we asked your opinion, we heard loud and clear that you wanted the entire articles available for reading …

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A Different Theme

We’re updating the design of Irregular Times tonight. If there are any problems, or if you have ideas for how we can improve things, please leave a comment, and we’ll see what we can do.

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Google Advertising Weakness Exposed on BlueOregon

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Using off-target algorithms without human eyes to review obvious mistakes such as the one at BlueOregon, Google Ads looks downright dumb.

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New: Create Your Own Election 2008 Bumper Sticker, Button or Poster

Since 2003, we’ve been selling our own politically and socially progressive bumper stickers, buttons and such. Since last year, we’ve been selling sweatshop-free made in the USA shirts, too. Today, we’re happy to take our offerings to a new level. …

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Two Day Hiccup Hopefully Over

Hi all. As you may have noticed, we had a two-day hiccup of sorts (a hiiiiiiiiiicup) during which time we couldn’t get the darned tubes of the internets to unclog for this website. We’re back up, and we’ve got everything …

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Pardon the Dust… We’re Moving

As you’ve probably noticed, Irregular Times has been suffering from server problems, and the outfit that hosts our server has given us the kissoff for the eighth time in two days. That’s it. Our patience is exhausted, and we’re changing …

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Something Wonky With Irregular Times

There’s something wonky going on with Irregular Times. It has to do with our hosting provider’s server. As we try to prod them into fixing the problem instead of just sitting on it, well, sit tight. Sorry for the intermittent …

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Keeping the conversation going, at least for a while

Vynce left a comment here a couple of weeks ago, noting that “one of the things i don’t like about the way this site works is that there doesn’t seem o be any good way to keep track of what’s …

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Presidential Election Resource Center Up and Running

For some time now, a note in the upper-right-hand corner our front page has indicated that a 2008 Presidential Election Resource Center is “coming soon.” No more of that “soon” business — it’s available now, offering links to articles, campaign …

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New Shop For Buttons and Magnets we Make Ourselves

Selling socially and politically liberal buttons, shirts, stickers and such through Cafepress has helped us to make enough money so that we don’t have to work too much at daily grind jobs, and so that we can spend more time …

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Index Scores for the House of Representatives Completed

It has taken longer than we anticipated, but as of tonight there are finally available index scores on progressivism, conservatism and support of the U.S. Constitution for the House of Representatives in the 110th Congress — the link to which …

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Senate Indices on Constitution and Progressivism Available

This is just a note to let you know that our indices on Senators’ support for the constitution and for progressive policies are available for the 110th Congress, through links you can find on your right under the headings of …

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Change #1: Incorporation of Hard-Ass Anti-Spam Software

The first change we’re incorporating is the incorporation of some tougher anti-spam software. Our previous anti-spam software filtered out comment spammers (for the most part) and kept them from being seen. We could go through the comments that were filtered …

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Changes Coming to Irregular Times

We’re going to be changing the format in which you see Irregular Times, and to some extent we’re going to be changing how we write. Look for things to look and be different.

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Irregular Times Software Updated. Any Hiccups?

We have just updated the software that supports and runs the blog features of Irregular Times. Everything should look just the same as before — the differences in the software are all behind the scenes and meant to make things …

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New Feature: E-mail a Post to Friends

We have a new feature available as of this morning. At the bottom of each post, on the right-hand side, you’ll notice a link that says “e-mail this post.” Click it, and you can do just that — with your …

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