The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

1 In 5 U.S. Web Sites Are Powered By WordPress

Posted on | August 19, 2011 | 15 Comments

by Smitty

This blog, on the strength of a decision by Lead Über Design Decision/Integration Technical Engineer (LUDDITE) Robert Stacy McCain, migrated from Blogger to WordPress a couple of years back. We’re in good company, apparently. 22% of U.S. web sites are using it.

Once that call was made, a query among the other cool kids, including Jimmie Bise, led us to the hosting services of Silver Logic. This has proven an excellent relationship. I suspect I’m one of SL’s more demanding customers, knowing just enough of the technical aspects of the MySQL back end to be dangerous. It is great to be stuck halfway around the world, need a bit of specific technical support just to be able to blog at all, and get it promptly. Blogging is a mighty fine addiction, and SL has been a great resource.

Even if you’re not hooked enough to need your own hosting, keep blogging. We stand in the tradition with the pamphleteers who drove the Revolution. Now our federal government has become as odious and unrepresentative today as the British Parliament was then. If we do not apply pressure to restore life, liberty, and the pursuit of debt-free happiness to subsequent generations, who will? Barney Frank? John McCain? Nancy Pelosi? Lindsey Graham? Harry Reid?

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15 Responses to “1 In 5 U.S. Web Sites Are Powered By WordPress”

  1. ClassicFilm
    August 19th, 2011 @ 7:01 pm

    “If we do not apply pressure to restore life, liberty, and the pursuit of debt-free happiness to subsequent generations, who will? Barney Frank? John McCain? Nancy Pelosi? Lindsey Graham? Harry Reid?”
    My money’s on Snooki. Or Capt. James T. Kirk. Whichever.

  2. TR
    August 19th, 2011 @ 7:12 pm

    Thanks Smitty and congratulations to you and family for service to USA and bringing into our world your new child.

  3. Roxeanne de Luca
    August 19th, 2011 @ 7:14 pm

    22% is not “one in five”; it’s two in nine.

  4. Bob Belvedere
    August 19th, 2011 @ 9:16 pm

    Somtimes you scientist/lawyers are real pips.

  5. Bob Belvedere
    August 19th, 2011 @ 9:17 pm

    Hear, Hear!  Admiral Smitty.  A hearty ‘Huzzah!’

  6. ThePaganTemple
    August 19th, 2011 @ 9:28 pm

    Speaking of Lindsey Graham has everybody noticed how he seems to be kissing up to the Tea Party all of a sudden. He’s up for re-election next year, right?

  7. JeffS
    August 19th, 2011 @ 11:09 pm

    Scientists/lawyers are pips 67.6543% of  the time, not “sometimes”.

  8. Bob Belvedere
    August 20th, 2011 @ 3:50 am

    He and Orrin.

  9. ThePaganTemple
    August 20th, 2011 @ 4:43 am

    Have you also noticed Sarah is taking up for ol’ Orrin. Wonder what that’s about? I’ll give him this much, he has been good on protecting the vitamin supplement industry, which I at least appreciate.

  10. Anonymous
    August 20th, 2011 @ 8:37 am

    You are of the body?

  11. Bob Belvedere
    August 20th, 2011 @ 4:01 pm

    Now that you mention it: why, yes…yes I have noticed: WTF Sarah?.

  12. Anonymous
    August 20th, 2011 @ 4:18 pm

    Considering how New Jersey’s been governed/represented before Christie came along, they could do a lot worse than elect Snooki. At least she’s up front about being an attention whore.

  13. Anonymous
    August 20th, 2011 @ 4:19 pm

    Graham needs to die in a (primary) fire. Hatch, on the other hand, is looking like he’s capable of learning.

  14. Never Give In — Ever, Never, Never, Never… « The Camp Of The Saints
    August 20th, 2011 @ 12:39 pm

    […] Smitty: …keep blogging. We stand in the tradition with the pamphleteers who drove the Revolution. Now our federal government has become as odious and unrepresentative today as the British Parliament was then. If we do not apply pressure to restore life, liberty, and the pursuit of debt-free happiness to subsequent generations, who will? Barney Frank? John McCain? Nancy Pelosi? Lindsey Graham? Harry Reid? […]

  15. Bob Belvedere
    August 20th, 2011 @ 4:41 pm

    Ahh…the triumph of hope over experience, eh?