It’s working now, but he’s also showing a severe ignorance of the web. When you use someone else’s servers and services for free - they can do whatever they want, and you have no recourse.
If you have something important to say, then pay $5/month, rent your own space, get your own domain, and go. And most of the cheap providers offer Wordpress, Joomla, and lots of other free blogging software. Cheap insurance to make sure what you put up is retained.
That is why I post my stuff on several different blogsites. The Birther Think Tank is duplicated at Obama:The Opaque Years, and Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter is backed up on Posterous. Then I back both of them up to blogger. I almost learned the hard way when the Obots shut down gretawire forum. But sometimes I kind of lose myself trying to keep track of them.
Great point FromTheSideLines, especially because I just suggested the same thing to rxsid, before I discovered this thread! (referring to what someone, perhaps Moe or Larry, said about "great minds thinking alike")
We, of course, eschew conspiracies, but the possibility that the instantaneous removal was a warning shouldn't be ignored. The technology to control individual free speech is in place. Scribd once had a pointer to a document disappear. Scribd’s server host is Google. After a phone call, the page returned within the hours necessary for page caches to propagate. No one admitted blocking the pointer, but the routers absolutely provide for blocks, just as your firewalls can block any IP address or domain or subdomain.
My wife is a writer, and has her own site. We have it backup up locally, and at the host site. But your suggestion that one keep another URL handy is excellent.
Donofrio is too important to all of us, particularly his insight into the Minor v. Happersett ruling, which nails the objection that natural born citizenship needed to be positive law - that common law is for originalists. Justice Waite was very careful, but why wasn't clear until explained by Donofrio. Like many problems whose solution is not obvious, it became obvious when explained by Donofrio.
I'm probably not the only reader who occasionally backs up Donofrio’s site. But one hopes that Leo does the same. In my case, I use Adobe Acrobat to convert from html to Postscript. Some of the more valuable insights are in both comments, and in Leo's responses to comments. But saving the html file would also work.
Seeing that someone immediately looked at the ownership of Wordpress, thanks. That is a common Alinsky tactic, and if purveyors of free speech don't respect the Constitution, we should know it. There are more who value the 1st Amendment than those for whom the end justifies the means.
Great point FromTheSideLines, especially because I just suggested the same thing to rxsid, before I discovered this thread! (referring to what someone, perhaps Moe or Larry, said about "great minds thinking alike")
We, of course, eschew conspiracies, but the possibility that the instantaneous removal was a warning shouldn't be ignored. The technology to control individual free speech is in place. Scribd once had a pointer to a document disappear. Scribd’s server host is Google. After a phone call, the page returned within the hours necessary for page caches to propagate. No one admitted blocking the pointer, but the routers absolutely provide for blocks, just as your firewalls can block any IP address or domain or subdomain.
My wife is a writer, and has her own site. We have it backup up locally, and at the host site. But your suggestion that one keep another URL handy is excellent.
Donofrio is too important to all of us, particularly his insight into the Minor v. Happersett ruling, which nails the objection that natural born citizenship needed to be positive law - that common law is for originalists. Justice Waite was very careful, but why wasn't clear until explained by Donofrio. Like many problems whose solution is not obvious, it became obvious when explained by Donofrio.
I'm probably not the only reader who occasionally backs up Donofrio’s site. But one hopes that Leo does the same. In my case, I use Adobe Acrobat to convert from html to Postscript. Some of the more valuable insights are in both comments, and in Leo's responses to comments. But saving the html file would also work.
Seeing that someone immediately looked at the ownership of Wordpress, thanks. That is a common Alinsky tactic, and if purveyors of free speech don't respect the Constitution, we should know it. There are more who value the 1st Amendment than those for whom the end justifies the means.
Great point FromTheSideLines, especially because I just suggested the same thing to rxsid, before I discovered this thread! (referring to what someone, perhaps Moe or Larry, said about "great minds thinking alike")
We, of course, eschew conspiracies, but the possibility that the instantaneous removal was a warning shouldn't be ignored. The technology to control individual free speech is in place. Scribd once had a pointer to a document disappear. Scribd’s server host is Google. After a phone call, the page returned within the hours necessary for page caches to propagate. No one admitted blocking the pointer, but the routers absolutely provide for blocks, just as your firewalls can block any IP address or domain or subdomain.
My wife is a writer, and has her own site. We have it backup up locally, and at the host site. But your suggestion that one keep another URL handy is excellent.
Donofrio is too important to all of us, particularly his insight into the Minor v. Happersett ruling, which nails the objection that natural born citizenship needed to be positive law - that common law is for originalists. Justice Waite was very careful, but why wasn't clear until explained by Donofrio. Like many problems whose solution is not obvious, it became obvious when explained by Donofrio.
I'm probably not the only reader who occasionally backs up Donofrio’s site. But one hopes that Leo does the same. In my case, I use Adobe Acrobat to convert from html to Postscript. Some of the more valuable insights are in both comments, and in Leo's responses to comments. But saving the html file would also work.
Seeing that someone immediately looked at the ownership of Wordpress, thanks. That is a common Alinsky tactic, and if purveyors of free speech don't respect the Constitution, we should know it. There are more who value the 1st Amendment than those for whom the end justifies the means.