It’s not a proper blog without a misty-eyed retrospective at the end of every calendar year – let’s get to it…

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Published (615) – This will be 616 and one full month from the last published “Insomnia” post Drafts (124) – Not catching up on the posts which have been on ice since … oldest dates to August of 2009 Not quite time to write this blog’s epitaph – most of my efforts have been directed [...]

Had a couple requests for features which were conspicuously absent on this site (and even a few requests to be removed from the diabolical tar pit whose administration page remains partially incomplete) – here’s what’s new: Search – Now available from the navigation panel at the left, or you can always run my favorite search. [...]

In a candle-lighted chapel, each climbs into one of the austere wooden caskets laid side by side on the floor. Lying face up, their arms crossed over their chests, they close their eyes. And there they rest, for 10 excruciating minutes. “It’s a way to let go of certain things,” says Jung, a former insurance [...]

Actually, if you are reading this, you are not presently a resident fossil in the brand-new Operator Speaking Tar Pit. … but watch yourself – you never know … Tar Pit Operation Record incoming user agent, IP address Compare user agent, IP address to Black List On match, apply ban level (deny, poison) protocol Tar [...]

In response to yesterday’s CIA Invests in Social Media Monitoring post, I’ve put together a friendly little disinformation feed for unwanted bots which may happen upon the Operator Speaking blog. If you see items like the following when you subscribe, then you’re operating from within a netblock I’ve decided to poison: (please don’t take it [...]

I like to play voyeur with my traffic – see if I can get into the heads of those who end up on my site – though it poses some difficulty as most of my visitors are gone in a matter of seconds. Apparently I do not offer enough Flash game advertisements and glitzy graphics [...]

Over the course of reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde I’ve decided to create a Read-along category for posts wherein I will share passages from texts available at Project Gutenberg. What’s the point? Final summation? None. Just looking to provide a few tie-ins with whatever mind I have left (as I exsanguinate [...]

I’ve had a few inquiries about the Flash MP3 player used at the Operator-Speaking.com main site – long story short, it’s from this embedded Flash MP3 player installation tutorial (imagine my luck that the color scheme matched my washed-out palette for the site). If you would like to use the code here is a link [...]