I was going to call this post, “California Dreamin’” because what finally broke through my “not writing on Unspun™” barrier has to do with California’s pension “crisis,” which is really just one more aspect of California’s generalized budgetary crisis. But given what’s going on around the rest of the country, “Meltdown” seemed the more appropriate […]

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Anyone who has been poking around here the last couple of weeks — and according to the WordPress.com Stats module that came with this blog, that seems to be probably around a few hundred people — has noticed I’ve been busily upgrading the site software. For many years, Unspun™ relied upon MovableType™. Unfortunately, Unspun™ gets […]

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Sorry that lately I seem to be posting mostly “Administrivia.” The blog rebuild is coming slowly because I don’t have much time these days. Law school mid-terms are coming up in a couple or three weeks here. I’ve been clerking on a double-murder case and sitting in (and sometimes assisting with research on) some gang […]

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I know those of you who read Unspun™ regularly have noticed: We’ve been offline for about 2 weeks. This is because I made the mistake of moving my hosting services from my own servers to aplus.net. For whatever reason, aplus has insisted that my blog is generating around 2,800,000 SQL queries per day. Most of […]

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Today is a “No Blog Day” at Unspun™. I have my Constitutional Law final examination tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. The exam is a three-hour tour of Equal Protection, Procedural and Substantive Due Process, along with a variety of First Amendment issues and who knows what else. If I blog today, when it comes time for […]

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The dysutility company is having trouble keeping the power going here. About 10 or 15 miles from here, my wife’s employer is having the same good time. Funny how every year our rates go up, while the quality of service goes down. In the last two weeks, I’ve had outages on three days. Today those […]

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For some time now, “comment spam” or what I call “blogspam” has been a significant administrative problem here at Unspun™. This is an “Administrivia” post, so if you don’t care much about how this blog operates, no need to read the rest of this post. Just, please, notify me if you notice any “odd behavior” […]

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Since the “upgrade” to the new version of MovableType last night, Comment posting isn’t behaving as it should. In theory, I have much more control over comment posting than I did in the past. I can require registration or I can allow comments to be posted by anyone only after I approve them or I […]

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Tonight I upgraded Unspun™ to the latest commercial version of MovableType. So far, it’s provided a terrific user interface for administration — I can much more easily get to all the Comments posted, as well as Trackbacks. It does appear to have some pretty major drawbacks right now, though — severe enough that if I’d […]

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Well, I was unable to get to the 9th Circuit opinion regarding the recall as I’d planned. And I won’t be blogging this weekend, because I’m attending a Delta Theta Phi function in Los Angeles. However, I did add a new section to the blog tonight: Book Reviews. The book reviews appear on their own […]

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