Sighted: New tracking tool?

This little warning popped up today when I loaded Ace’s site.  It’s new there, although I’ve been getting the same warning from a couple of newspaper sites for the last month or so.  Interesting thing about it is, I’m not filling out any forms; the message just appears as the page loads.
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Next weekend...

(Art by Roberta X, of course!)

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Blog bleg - anybody seen this?

UPDATED 081011 01:58:  Identified. Thanks, Pete!

Sometime in the last five days (or so, most likely last Sunday) I came across a blog, new to me, whose author is involved in some restoration work (window cleaning/repair?) at a grand mansion (actually the “summer house”) on an estate somewhere in (IIRC) the northeast U.S.  His description of the place is amazing: Built (probably) around 1900, grand staircase, skylit bathrooms, heavy doors (over 100) with solid brass hardware, enormous attic full of many years’ worth of treasures, two-foot thick walls, stone lions out front... you get the idea.

At the time I viewed the site, the author had already put up three posts about this project, one of them including an historic picture of the front of the place.  The posts are fascinating in their wealth of detail... really great link fodder!

But... I was interrupted while reading, and only got to skim them.  So there’s a lot I don’t recall (like the name of the house, and the blog’s author. My bad!).  I had intended to bookmark it, figuring I’d get back later to finish.

Well, it appears I screwed up.  There’s no bookmark, and I just spent a couple of hours trying to find my way back, to no avail.^[1]  At this point, I can’t even remember how I got there in the first place– I might have followed a link from a comment the blog’s author made in a thread at someone else’s site, or maybe I came in via a link to an unrelated post.

Anyhow, I know that some of the folks who drop by here seem to surf pretty widely.  Does any of this sound familiar to you?  Can anyone point me to the mystery site?


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^[1] Yes, I checked my history file.  One of the few known issues with my version 1.02 browser is its occasional failure to get everything visited into the history list.  Irish cabbage (Murphy Slaw) strikes again!
(And search engines didn’t yield anything, either.)

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Sites linked - September, 2008

59 posts in September. 30 more than last month (which now becomes the year-to-day lowest), the most since February (62), and the fourth highest ever.  Totally blew away last year (28).

The September linklist is below the jump...
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There’s a hot new group in town...

Is this something like what everyone had in mind?

Gimp-ified picture (stolen from Roberta!) from Sunday’s festivities.
CD 12” red vinyl release pending.

Coverage here.here.here and here.
(And a paragraph here, but that post deserves its own link.)

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Reminder - It’s tomorrow

(Thanks again to Roberta X for the arrangements and the artwork.)

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Sites Linked - August 2008

29 posts in August.  Hoped to finish a couple more by now (have several in varous stages of draft), but have been fighting off fall allergies and spent most of Sunday in bed catching up on sleep.   Still beats the Y-T-D low month of September, 2007 (28).

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Belated blogmeet report

End-of-the-month wind-down + start of school + Colts game + Blackwater + 2 meets in one month + whatever = thinner but still companionable turnout on Sunday. Present were Shermlock & Mrs. Shomes, Roberta X, and yrs truly. Amongst topics of discussion: Why a Single Point of Failure is a Bad Thing, Especially when it Involves Air Conditioning, the merits of different methods of popcorn popping (Oh look, here’s a steam engine used for driving a popcorn popper... Steam-powered popcorn- kewl!), and Why School Should Not Start Until After Labor Day. Good time was had by this participant and, I see, the others.

Roberta X promises enhanced advance notice re: September’s date.  Watch this space (or this one).

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Friendly reminder...

(Thanks again to Roberta X for the artwork.)

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Doubly bloggy goodness

The Word:

The semi-official Indy BlogMeet will meet Sunday, 17 August at 3:00 pm at Broad Ripple Brew Pub.
The semi-un-official Bloogmeet will be a week later: 24th, same time, same place.

All clear?

(Via Shermlock.)

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