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July 14, 2009

Comment Moderation Is On

Beginning midmorning yesterday, Abnormal Interests has received spam comments at the rate of several dozen an hour. The storm continues. Because of the way they are designed, my spam filter catches only a very few of these spam comments. Therefore,...

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July 11, 2008

Abnormal Interests Is Back

Our abnormal server abnormally blew its abnormal power supply and I had to order a new one from the abnormal manufacture. The new power supply arrived late yesterday afternoon and, abnormally, I installed it today. This is the second time...

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June 8, 2008

Excuses, Excuses

If you think I haven't posted much in the last few days, you are correct. In part, we've been celebrating our anniversary and in part, I've been dealing with a bunch of computer and server problems. And just to add...

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February 5, 2008

House Cleaning

Today I did a little house cleaning on the side bar of the front page of Abnormal Interests. Among other things, I significantly modified the blogroll. If I left your blog out, please let me know. I'll be happy to...

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June 4, 2007

A Note to My Abnormal Readers

Blogging will be even lighter than usual over the next couple of days. Shirley and I are celebrating our forty third wedding anniversary. While we don't have any great plans, we will be taking an extended day trip tomorrow and...

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May 31, 2007

Abnormal Intermittent Problems

Regular readers may have noticed periods when Abnormal Interests was abnormally down for periods of time ranging from a few seconds to a half an hour or more. There is some kind of a problem with our abnormal router or...

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February 15, 2007

Server Problem

A few of you may have noticed that our abnormal server was abnormally down for a while this afternoon. Things are back working now but I'm not sure how long it will last....

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July 20, 2006

A Short Break

I am taking a short but abnormal trip and will be gone until the middle of next week. Blogging will be light to non-existent until I get back....

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February 16, 2006

Happy Birthday - Abnormal Interests

Today is Abnormal Interests official birthday. While there was some experimentation and a few administrative posts in the days before February 16, 2005, that was the day that I told the world, or at least a subset of the...

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December 9, 2005

Abnormal Interests Abnormally Down

Starting at about 7:10 this evening and for reasons yet to be determined, the Abnormal server acted very abnormally. It looks like all is well now....

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November 21, 2005

We're Back!

Shirley and I are back from the Gezer reunion at the ASOR meeting in Philadelphia and visiting our daughter in Kent, Ohio. I will post a report on the Gezer reunion and Philadelphia as soon as I recover from getting...

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November 15, 2005

Off to the Gezer Reunion

Blogging will be a little light for the next several days. Before the sun rises tomorrow, I will be on my way to Philadelphia and the American Schools of Oriental Research meeting. While some of the papers and sessions may...

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November 5, 2005

Dear Abnormal Readers

For a short time tomorrow, Sunday, November 6 and for a bit longer on the morning of Wednesday, November 5, (I sure hope it doesn't slop over into the afternoon) both Abnormal Interests and telecomtally.com (including email) will be down...

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September 19, 2005

The 10,000th Abnormal Hit

At 6:42:15 am PDT this morning the site meter recorded the 10,000th hit at Abnormal Interests. More important, the regular reader ship is growing. People visit Abnormal Interests on a fairly regular basis from Rio de Janeiro to Moscow to...

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July 3, 2005

Another Minor Milestone

At about 6:57 this morning Abnormal Interests logged its five thousandth visitor. Back on April 13, 2005 when it logged its one thousandth visitor, I threatened that I would write another one of these updates at this milestone. These numbers...

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June 6, 2005

Our 41st

On this day in 1964, between final exams and graduation, I married Shirley Pletcher in the Methodist Church that I attended and for which she worked. That was 41 years ago. We continue to have a great life together. She...

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May 20, 2005

Bibliography Page

This page is not a real post. Unless you like lists of books, it is not intended to be read. I will link to it from time to time as I post on subjects that need a higher level of...

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April 13, 2005

A Minor Milestone

Some time over night, the Site Meter counter near the bottom of the side bar on the right passed 1000 hits. That means that there have been over 1000 hits at Abnormal Interests since February 22 of this year. Over...

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January 31, 2005

Who am I

My name is Duane Smith. I am a retired, well, semi-retired, product marketing manager who spent most of his career working in the semiconductor industry. I had some pretty good jobs and have even had my own business. The worst...

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January 29, 2005

Comment Policy

Go back where you came from. [Careful: Unless your comment is about my comment policy, please return to the post you want to comment on. Thanks] Play nice! I will move (or possibly delete) any comments that are too far...

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