Below The Crowd

Old posts imported

I've noticed, of course, that the photo links are all broken.  Going to have to fix all those in the coming days and weeks.  Fortunately, not too many of them going back over the years, but enough to be a pain.  I suspect that some other links will be broken as well.  Bear with me here.

-btc

A test of a bunch of stuff

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Moving to TypePad

I've given up on dealing with my own hosting of Moveable Type for this blog. Dealing with the hassles of the installation, upgrades, spam filtering, etc. has been more work than I've been able to deal with, and has really kept me from commenting as quickly and easily as I'd like.

Not to mention that my hosts at H2Hosting.com have turned out to be difficult to deal with, have invoiced me late and inconsistently, have lost connectivity fairly regularly and generally have made this less than fun.

TypePad makes it relatively easy to transition stuff over, though some of the photo links will get broken in the process. I'll probably also take the opportunity to edit down some of the history.

For now, the new site is coming together at http://belowthecrowd.typepad.com. It'll have a slightly cleaner look but for now will feature similar graphics and headings. I'll probably clean those up over time as well. Advertising will also change, as I don't really feel like going with a completely custom template in order to support AdSense.

After the transition, this domain will point directly to the new home and this site will just go away.

I hope that by doing this, I'll actually be able to focus my energy on quickly and easily blogging rather than on dealing with technical and formatting issues.

-btc

Larry Kudlow Sees Mustard Seeds!

I see mustard gas.

All technical levels broken, no real support here until somewhere around S&P 480/Dow 4000. Not saying we'll get all the way there, and it certainly won't be a straight line, but telling average investors that there is evidence of a consumer-led recovery out there is irresponsible BS of the highest order.

When this is all over, he'll be reviled as one of the worst, most dogmatic of the shills and apologists for a financial system run out of control and one of the most dogged defenders of the indefensible so long as it favored his buddies.

He's one of the morons who should have been kicked off the air years ago.

-btc

Well, That Sucked!

No, I'm not talking about the markets.

And I'm not even talking about the phone interview I had a few hours ago that I think I blew completely.

I'm talking about trying to make a simple set of password changes to my various domain names, and thereby immobilizing this Movable Type installation for weeks until I could figure out what I had wrong. In fact, I'm still not sure I know what was wrong, but replace enough files and eventually you get the bad one with the bad password replaced.

And most likely, this blog will either go away or move to a different system when this current hosting agreement expires.

More tomorrow.

-btc