tingilinde

15,000

15,000 posts 

Tingilinde began on July 7, 2003 with a link to an earlier blog on another platform.  11 years, 8 months and 22 days.  A bit over $1,000 in hosting fees.

Thanks to everyone who sends comments and suggest links..  this goes back to an email list and the Mosaic days followed by an early blogish site going by the same name (the Crandall Surf Report). In 1997 my employer at the time was getting into "the Internet" and decided that since I worked for them they owned the content (it was not published using any of their resources).  I stopped for awhile only restarting it as a Radio weblog after I left the company - the Crandall Surf Report 2.0 - I had no idea it was still being served.  

The name has a connection to one of  J.R.R. Tolkein's languages.

 

new comment policy

comment spam has risen to about 50 per day (I have to approve comments) - to lower the load I'm shutting off the ability to comment on posts older than two months.

 

almost ten years

In a few days tingilinde will be a decade old.  This marks the 12,000^th post - something that seems better to mark than the ten year point.  

It started out as an extension of the crandall surf report 2.0, which was an extension of the csr 1.0, which - in turn - was an extension of a mailing list that started a few months after the Mosaic browser was released.  The notion was just a few words and perhaps a link about whatever seemed interesting.  Probably half of the links come from friends and it formed something of a middenheap or perhaps an odd diary.

To date tingilinde has cost a bit over $1,000 in hosting and bandwidth costs (it is a bit over 17M page visits to date) and generates zero income although there have been a few books and music reviews where I note they have given me a book or piece of music to review.  (If anyone wants to give me a Mac Pro after they are released at the end of the year, I'll be more than happy to review it ...  the same goes for nice camera kit.  A Sony RX1 would make for an interesting review:-)

 

a 19 yr old visits a strange place

Eric Schmidt's (Google) daughter Sophie blogs about her recent trip to North Korea with her dad and Governer Bill Richardson.

recommended reading

 

possible storm outage

We're getting ready for the multi-storm event with Hurricane Sandy as the star performer.  This area of NJ is notorious for storm related electric power issues and our utility has issued a warning that we should prepare to be without power for at least one to two weeks.  If we lose power I won't be blogging, so in case you see the posts stop...

At about 6:30AM the local weather station a few miles from here is showing winds at 28 mph gusting to 44.  

(image from the NASA Suomi NPP saatellite at 02:42 EDT Sunday morning.  You can clearly make out sities in the Southeast and the cloudtops are nicely illuminated by an almost full moon)

spam and policy on posting comments

I get a lot of comments that are obviously spam. While comments are ver welcome, if they are spamish and have questionable links, they will be deleted. URL links will only be included if relevant.

The spammers can be awful...

tingilinde turns 10,000!

 

 

10,000 posts

 

yikes - tingilinde has been around since 2002.   I've spent about $1,000 on it over the years along with a few hours.  Thanks to all who have commented and suggested links and topics!

I'll have some ice cream in celebration - it is a lame excuse, but if you are looking for one ...

on the chinese calendar

Nancy recently pointed to a blog with quite a bit of remarkable content.  I waited until the weekend before having a look ..

 

here is an entry on the legend of the eastern calendar with lovely artwork

 

Cat people may enjoy the link on hero cats

a recommended blog

Ned points to Tom Murphy's Do the Math blog - a nice catch aimed at folks interested in physics and energy, but one that does not assume a deep background.  

You should also check out Ned's excellent Starchamber blog too.

do you need a blog?

Typepad - the folks that host tingilinde - have offered a one year free blog subscription that I can give away.  If you want it, send me a note telling me why you want to blog and I'll send it to whoever makes a compelling case.  

Send your note by October 1 - use the email me link on the upper right side of the page.