Lottery winners often go bankrupt or face even more serious problems.

WordPress.org, WordPress.com, Automattic

Now Automattic has purchased Gravatar …

I try to pay attention to Matt Mullenweg’s online projects, whatever they are - because he and the WordPress people have great ideas and a skilled community of people who are willing to make amazing things happen.

I think it will be very interesting to see future developments with Gravatar and how it’s features are integrated with WordPress (and other programs/platforms as well).

For many months it has seemed obvious to me that in regards to their conservative political values, evangelical Christians would find Mitt Romney to be the most electable candidate. I know there are many evangelicals who deplore Mormonism and who define Mormonism as incompatible with Christianity. Still, from a pragmatic and practical point of view, it seems that evangelicals would want to pick Mitt Romney over Rudolph Giulani - particularly because of Giulani’s stance on abortion. Bob Jones III, described as “chancellor of the Christian fundamentalist school named for his family” puts it pretty succinctly in this article:

“If it turns out to be Giuliani and Hillary we’ve got two pro-choice candidates, and that would be a disaster.”

I’m hearing that this is a good time to renew your registrations on the national “do not call” lists. Does it work? I signed up the first time I heard about it, many years ago, and since then I can only recall a single telemarketer phone call to a personal line or cell-phone.

The blurb at the National Do Not Call Registry website reads:

The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free. Your registration will be effective for five years.

Sounds good to me.