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Oregon beats Penn State in thrilling football game (thanks to my granddaughter)

This evening the sixth-ranked University of Oregon defeated third-ranked Penn State 30-24 in two overtimes. Oregon football coach Dan Lanning said "“I think that’s the best game I’ve ever been a part of. Regardless of who won.” No argument there. It was one of the best games I've ever seen, for sure. When Oregon safety Dillon Thieneman intercepted a pass by Penn State quarterback Drew Allar in the second overtime, the game was over and Thieneman celebrated by running down the field with the ball tucked under his right arm. I felt almost as happy as Thieneman did. The game…
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Portland’s KATU won’t show return of Jimmy Kimmel. Here’s how to complain.

I was happy when I learned yesterday that ABC is bringing back the Jimmy Kimmel show tonight, Tuesday, September 23, after being suspended for a week after Kimmel made a joke about how the MAGA folks are worried about the killer being one of them. But today I was deeply irked when it was announced that Portland's KATU, our local ABC affiliate, wouldn't be airing the Kimmel show because the station's corporate overlord is the Sinclair Broadcast Group. An Oregonian story says: Jimmy Kimmel is set to be back on the air Tuesday night, but Portland’s KATU is among the…
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Posted inWeblogs

I’m a Typepad refugee. I’m enjoying my new WordPress home.

It's got all the makings of a tragedy. A man -- let's call him me, because that's who he is -- finds a blogging home at Typepad in 2003 after briefly trying another platform and finding it lacking. For about two decades Typepad and I got along fine. They took my annual fee. I found their services likable, albeit lacking in some features I wanted, such as the ability for visitors to edit comments they left on what eventually became three blogs. Then our relationship took a downturn. In 2020 Typepad stopped accepting new customers. Not a good sign. Rumors…
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Posted inMiscellany Writing/Weblogs

“Sketched Out” is a great pictorial take on AI and art in the New York Times magazine

How is AI going to affect art? This important question is addressed creatively, thoughtfully, and, yes, artistically, by Christoph Niemann in a special recent issue of the New York Times Magazine, Learning to Live with AI. My wife subscribes to the Sunday New York Times, so I was able to see Niemann’s piece — a combination of sketches and words — in the print edition. Since I’m a subscriber to the digital New York Times, here’s a gift link to “Sketched Out” that should work for subscribers and non-subscribers alike. To whet your appetite for reading/viewing the piece, I’ll share…
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My migration from Typepad to WordPress is complete, thanks to Glorywebs

Today I left this 5-star Google review about my experience with Glorywebs, a tech firm based in India with a presence in the United States. After Typepad, my blogging service, announced that it was shutting down on September 30, 2025, I contacted Glorywebs for help in migrating my three blogs with 8,400 posts and 12,000 photos into the WordPress platform. In a bit more than a week Glorywebs provided me with three well-functioning WordPress blogs that have all of my exported Typepad content. The Glorywebs team was a pleasure to work with. Responsive, knowledgeable, easy to communicate with. And they…
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Glorywebs is a great choice if you’re migrating a blog from Typepad to WordPress

On August 27, Typepad, my long-time blogging service, announced that they're shutting down on September 30, 2025. Like lots of other Typepad bloggers, that announcement of just a window of a bit over a month to save blog content kicked off my search for expert help in migrating a large number of posts and photos from Typepad into WordPress, the premier blogging platform. I have about 8,400 posts and 10,000 photos on my three blogs, Church of the Churchless, HinesSight, and Salem Political Snark. I'm computer literate but in no way did I consider myself competent to handle this migration.…
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The agony and the ecstasy of Typepad, my blogging service, shutting down

The past week feels a lot like a divorce, something I experienced in 1989 when the woman I'd been married to for 18 years and I split up.  [There is supposed to be the Typepad logo here, but Typepad no longer will publish blog posts with images, at least for me, so I had to delete it.] In this current case, the split-up is between me and Typepad, the blogging service that I've used for 22 years. Just as with my first wife, the divorce was the culmination of a lengthy period in which two parties steadily grew more distant…
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