What should I make of this?

Hello Jason,

I hope this email finds you well. My name is Myra Wellington and I am an Advertising Coordinator for an Internet Company. I am currently working on increasing the presence of our products and services on the internet. I came across your site and found it to be very useful. I am very much interested in advertising my product on http://jsnotes.blogspot.com/ and any others that may be part of your network.

Our monthly rate starts at $20/month for 2 static text links or if you already have your media kit or advertising rates I will appreciate it if you can send it to me. Thank you again and I hope to hear from you soon.

Best Wishes,

Myra Wellington

An “Internet Company”, eh? I think that’s a sneaky way of saying they sell porn. And are they offering to pay me $20 a month or am I paying them? And, beyond that, if this was real (which I’m leaning towards it not being) it’d be laughable as I get maybe thirty hits a day and of those only five are from folks who come here for my enjoyable wit and charm. Sorry, Ms. Wellington, but you’re better off elsewhere.

The Role of the Delete Key in Blog

s a blog still a blog if someone else edits it? A recent policy change at The Sacramento Bee has raised questions about whether taking an editor’s pen to a Web log before it is published detracts from very nature of Web logs, or “blogs,” as the online diaries are called.

Lurking uncertainty about what standards should be applied to Web logs written by journalists bubbled to the surface last week after The Bee’s ombudsman made public a recent decision by editors to screen Web log entries of Daniel Weintraub, one of the newspaper’s leading columnists, before they are posted on The Bee’s Web site.

Other bloggers weighed in, many sharply criticizing the new regulations that the editors imposed on Mr. Weintraub’s popular “California Insider” blog, widely considered required reading for recall election news.

For much of the time since he started the online journal in April, Mr. Weintraub had been allowed to update the blog with new comments without editing. Now, before Mr. Weintraub posts an item on his online journal, which includes instant political commentary and news tips, it must be reviewed by an editor.

Huh. Well, my initial thought is that if he’s blogging for the paper, then the paper has every right to enforce its editorial oversight. I’ll dwell on this and speak up if I find anything else to really talk about…

Toddler ‘doing well’ after nearly 3 weeks alone

After spending nearly three weeks alone and surviving on raw pasta, mustard and ketchup, a 2-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, girl was in good spirits Tuesday morning at a hospital, officials told CNN.

“The child is doing well,” said David Foreman, a spokesman for Wolfson Children’s Hospital, where the toddler was brought for treatment. “She was sitting up this morning, talking and laughing with the nurses.”

Officer Ken Jefferson, spokesman for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, said the little girl was brought to the hospital Monday, suffering from malnutrition, after an officer responded to a call from the child’s father, Ogden Lee.

Lee, 33, was at the apartment of his estranged wife, 22-year-old Dakeysha Lee, who has been incarcerated since September 10. He told the responding officer that the apartment manager had let him into the apartment, where he found his daughter.

“The child basically survived on raw pasta, mustard, ketchup,” Jefferson said.

Damn, that’s a smart kid. My dumb 2 year old ass would have been eating the couch or something. How the hell can you go to jail and forget to mention your 2 year old sitting in the apartment?

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Zang! Who is that, running amidst the tarmac! It is J’s Notes, hands clutching an oversized scalpel! And with a mighty scream, his voice cometh: “I’m going to beat you like a rabid gangsta bitch!!!”

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Build your own Segway Speaking of Segway, did you hear about the recall?

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Prowling over the plains, attacking with a bladed baseball bat, cometh Jason Kenney! And he gives an ominous bellow: “I’m going to beat you to the moon and back!!”

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Tigers Win! Yes, Detriot avoided tying the Mets with the most loses in a season today, thus proving that the Mets will always suck the most, right behind Boston.

I’m still alive but my sinuses are making me wish I wasn’t. Ugh.

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Top Five Depressed Superheroes

1. Black Bolt. Black Bolt isn’t allowed to speak, because his voice is so horribly destructive that it might demolish the world. His wings resemble accordians, the most harmless and charming of instruments (apart from the kazoo), mocking the cataclymsic potential of his speaking voice. He never learned sign language, and it can be infuriating waiting for him to scribble a note, or while he attempts to indicate his thoughts with a scowl or pout. In restaurants it takes Black Bolt hours to decide on the simplest order. Ostensibly many other superheroes look up to him for leadership, but if you really pay any attention to his band of followers you perceive immediately that they are all freaks, with lousy powers. His dog is ugly.

Jonathan Lethem freakin’ rules. Go buy his new book.

Fredericksburg Flood Prone Areas

The red dot is where I live. So unless the river floods more then 50 feet, I’m cool. Hell, more than that considering I’m on the second floor.

Saudis consider nuclear bomb

Saudi Arabia, in response to the current upheaval in the Middle East, has embarked on a strategic review that includes acquiring nuclear weapons, the Guardian has learned.
This new threat of proliferation in one of the most dangerous regions of the world comes on top of a crisis over Iran’s alleged nuclear programme.

A strategy paper being considered at the highest levels in Riyadh sets out three options:

  To acquire a nuclear capability as a deterrent;

  To maintain or enter into an alliance with an existing nuclear power that would offer protection;

  To try to reach a regional agreement on having a nuclear-free Middle East.

Until now, the assumption in Washington was that Saudi Arabia was content to remain under the US nuclear umbrella. But the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the US has steadily worsened since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington: 15 of the 19 attackers were Saudi.

It is not known whether Saudi Arabia has taken a decision on any of the three options. But the fact that it is prepared to contemplate the nuclear option is a worrying development.

Worrying indeed.

I made BlogPulse’s Key People list for Sep 15th Not exactly sure how it works, but look under 5. Bill Clinton, there’s J’s Notes. Neat.

Nine Is the Loneliest Number So let’s make it an even ten.

Wesley Clark to Enter Presidential Race

Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who boasts a four-star military record but concedes he has gaps to fill on domestic policy, told political advisers Tuesday he will join the presidential race as the 10th Democratic candidate.

The Arkansan immediately displayed his potential to shake up the nomination fight, gathering an impressive lineup of party activists for a strategy session that overshadowed Sen. John Edwards long-standing plans to formally launch his months-old candidacy.

Senior officials close to Clark said he plans to announce his intentions Wednesday in Little Rock, Ark., at a boys and girls club. He enters the race late, against long odds.

I guess this steal’s Edwards’s thunder from his announcement of his candidacy on the Daily Show last night.

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!

Hurricane Isabel is coming all fists and elbows and everyone’s wondering “are you ready?” You’d think it was the rapture!

But just to be in the spirit of things I’ve got my handy dandy hurricane preparedness list out and I’m checking it twice.

Umbrella

Dry Underwear

Let’s see now…. Umbrella, check, dry underwear….

HOLY CRAP STICK! I’M OUTTA DRY UNDERWEAR!

Off to Wal-Mart. Maybe they have nachos. My emergency nacho supply has been running a little low lately…

Are you an intellectual?

Not bad. It wouldn’t hurt if you brushed up on existentialism, post-structuralism and philosophical pluralism. Meanwhile, you could try actually reading your subscription copies of the New Statesman.

Huh.