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Feel free to use these on your own blog. All I ask is that you save your own copy of each image, and don't hotlink to the image on my web site. If you hotlink, it will drive up my bandwidth costs.

Oh, and here's one for that bailout bill:

Enjoy.

... I must be doing something right. Especially when it's Tim Russo.

At 9:20 AM this morning, Dave at NixGuy.com posted a blurb about Dell's XPS competing with the Apple iMac. At 10:51 AM, I left a comment criticizing Dell and explaining why I now own a Lenovo. At 5:05 PM, someone named RichardatDELL left the following comment:

Hi Dave, thanks for the feed back and glad to hear you are impressed.

Ruddle Pirate [sic], The XPS One as part of the XPS line has a specialized support team that is highly trained on XPS systems and based in North America. I just bought a new XPS and needing to just check a couple things. The hold times were nil and the agents great.

We dropped the ball in the past, but we heard you, our customers, and are onb the way back. Sorry we lost you as a customer.

Hopefully we will regain your confidence with time.

<Vader voice>

Impressive. Most impressive.

</Vader voice>

I'm heading off to Las Vegas early tomorrow morning for the Blog World & New Media Expo that starts later this week.

If I can find time between sessions to post something worth reading, I'll do so. Hopefully I can also get my prehistoric digital camera to work well enough that I can throw a few photographs up here too. One thing's for certain:

If you'd like to hear from the front-line troops in Iraq, go browse the listings at MilBlogging.com and decide for yourself whether General Petraeus is telling the truth.

Also be sure to read the work of independent journalists embedded with the guys out on the bleeding edge: Michael Yon, Bill Roggio, Michael J. Totten, Bill Ardolino, Austin Bay, JD Johannes, and Pat Dollard. These guys are out in the thick of it, and they're not beholden to the Bush administration or to anybody else but the thousands of donors who fund their work.

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UPDATE: Yon on Petraeus

Are you a blogger who's weary of scrambling to keep up with the news cycle online? Don't like proprietary software or your My Yahoo page? Try this.

Dear reader, this is excellent writing.

This is what happens when lefties use images on my server to sign their comments on The Daily Kos.

Update: Fair is fair. I retaliate against Freepers too.

Update 2: Computer geeks have gotten into bandwidth thievery too. Hey, more free ad space for me!

I apologize for the funky appearance of this site. Some weisenheimer managed to deface my blogging software yesterday, and I'm trying to restore things now. I'll be changing software ASAP.

Again, I'm sorry if things are out of place or looking strange. I'll have it fixed soon.

Michelle Malkin pillories the left's overwrought whining about her readers' use of the Digg.com social networking system. Apparently, all that self-righteous talk about diversity and open-mindedness doesn't apply when conservatives set foot in the marketplace of ideas.

Tough noogies, liberals. Get used to being challenged.

Chris Muir agrees with me:

Mary Katherine Ham is a babe!

Mary Katherine Ham posts some key quotes from a recent interview with Ken Blackwell, and most were right up the red-meat conservative middle. However, Blackwell's response to a question about mainstream media distortions and his use of blogs left a lot to be desired.

David All: How are you planning to counter the liberal MSM in Ohio, and are you working with bloggers?

"Here's what they (Dems) worry about...as they sort of make the case that I gave this election, that I stole this election for Bush...when it gets exposure in the general community...Not one of them (state papers) has concluded, either on their editorial pages or in their news pages, that there was some major hijacking of this campaign," he said, adding that of 176 Democrats who serve on the Board of Elections, "not one of them has come out and said that there was anything corrupt or untoward about this election."

"Most people in Ohio understand that my choice was to take...those who believed in the rule of law and those who believe in voters without borders. I chose the rule of law," he said, adding that Ohio handled its provisional ballots the exact same way as New York, Texas and Massachusetts did.

"They see my brand of conservatism as being strange...Ohio is used to electing governors that are dull and practical."

"Nobody has ever accused me of not being able...to drive toward results...that enhance the quality of life for the people I serve. I don't govern by the editorial pages. I have an ideology that I live and die by."

That's nice, and it's true. But it doesn't answer the question about countering lefty spin. Blackwell outlines what he wants to do to, not how he plans to do it.

Hey, Matt Naugle! Tell your guy that he has support in the Ohio blogosphere, and that Hugh Hewitt is promoting him too.

WuzzaDem completely demolishes the schizophrenically-gifted Glenn Greenwald, a NY Times bestselling author of ... oh, nevermind. I'll let the sockpuppets speak for themselves.

Here they are.

Michelle Malkin announces a new conservative Internet broadcast network called Hot Air. Check it out, and sign up for comment-posting privileges while the opportunity lasts.

Sometimes people have to learn the hard way not to use up somebody else's bandwidth. At least I'm semi-polite about folks who hotlink to my image files. I could have made it a very embarassing image.

For those who complain about bloggers who supposedly don't measure up to journalistic ethical standards (such as they are), I offer the following example: Michelle Malkin. That's how it's done.

Here's a succint summary of CNN executive Eason Jordan's career-ending slander, exposed by bloggers.

First a Senate Majority Leader, then a presidential candidate, then a Senate Minority Leader, then a network news anchor, and now a cable news executive ... all were cut down by bloggers exposing their misbehavior. Looks like accountability's back in effect, eh?

The Long Tail meme keeps rolling on ... and here's a neat new experiment to illustrate (more details here).

Who says nothing cool comes from Canada, eh?

This is why I don't pick fights with other bloggers. Geesh, people. Calm down.