Email

I sent this email to Brent Colbert, Steve Taylor at the Blogging Tories, Jim Elve at Blogs Canada and Andrew at Bound By Gravity.

Hi Steve,

I realize that you are not personally responsible for every Blogging
Tory on the blogroll. But I thought you’d like to have a wee bit of
information.

Yeaterday I posted a rather insulting comment on Brent Colbert’s blog.
It was deleted. Fairball in the sense that it’s his blog and he can do
what he wants.

I also posted the comment to my blog http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com
with a bit of a commentary.

That post was taken down last night. I did not take it down. Here is
the page as it now reads http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/?p=27.

Now, I cannot prove that Brent hacked my site and, frankly, I am would
be amazed if he could manage to fire the two neurons needed to do such
a thing. But there is the evidence and there are plenty of people who
saw the original post.

In blogland deleting negative comments demonstrates intellectual
impotence. No big deal but it ensures that you are not taken very
seriously.

However, so far as I know, this is the first time that a site has been
hacked to take down a comment.

You can, of course, disregard this message entirely, as I say, you are
not the Blogging Tories’ nanny. But, frankly, I would have serious
difficulty having anyone who directly or indirectly hacked a fellow
blogger’s site remain on my blogroll. And given that the asshat is a
failed Tory candidate and claims to be a CPC adviser it might be a bit
of a problem if he continues stuffing negative material, on other
people’s websites, down the memory hole.

Your call. And, hey, maybe Brent didn’t hack my site. I’d ask.

Cheers,

Jay

Update: Colbert responds with a blanket denial. He denies ever receiving the comment for his blog

I do not make a habit of deleting comments and have intentionally left the offensive words in the resent comments so that readers can see for themselves the level of intelligent debate that I get from those on the other side of my position.

So what happened to this comment, I went through my spam filter to see if it was caught there but besides the countless manhood enlargement products and on-line gaming ads no “rather insulting” comments.

and ever having hacked mine.

What evidence do you have? Who else saw this post? ….If you don’t have a copy I’m sure that the “plenty of people” can search their feed readers for the original.

It would be delightful if someone did indeed have this comment either from Colbert’s blog or mine on their feed reader.

Happily Colbert can’t help ending with living proof of the fact that, as one commentor put it at Bound by Gravity, ” Colbert is a hopeless doofus” by way of a bit of speculation as to how I could possibly have come up with the insame delusion that I posted a comment to his blog and to mine:

I suspect that you were a little bored last night while your friends were our living their lives and having fun and decided to make up this little tale to stir up some controversy, might have even sounded like a good idea while you were refilling your bong….

Looking at the structure of that sentence one is tempted to suggest that Colbert should knock of his own intoxicants before, say, noon; however Colbert should be aware that it is quite possible to support Emery and not smoke pot. I know it will be a stretch; but if he works really hard…

Update 2: I went over to Colbert’s blog to check the status of other comments I’ve left. He no longer has comments. Hmmm. (10:26AM They are back. Likely a browser error on my end.)

Written by jay on August 7th, 2005 with 7 comments.
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Surfacing

A Russian mini-submarine burst to the surface on Sunday after rescuers hacked away the cables that had snared it deep in Pacific waters and saved the crew before their air supply ran out.

“The mini-sub has surfaced. The seven submariners on board are alive,” naval spokesman Igor Dygalo was quoted by Interfax as saying.
reuters

It is amazing what we can accomplish if we work together. Stories like this suggest another way. One which would let the world get on with actually solving problems rather than just talking about them.

Written by jay on August 7th, 2005 with no comments.
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Cosh Gets It (But we knew he would)

“Conspiracy” is the mating call of the out-of-control prosecutor. U.S. drug law has been crafted to lighten evidentiary burdens in conspiracy trials, and hearsay is more broadly admissible in them. Some U.S. jurists would like to see the whole concept thrown out.

“Money laundering” is another favourite truncheon of the U.S. police state-within-a-state: The minute a drug dealer does anything with his illicit income, a door opens magically to a cavity search of his financial affairs and, upon conviction, property seizures. We are not obliged to co-operate with the worst excesses of U.S. federal law, and I’m afraid this case will turn out to exemplify them.
national post via simon pole

Dead right. And I suspect Colby did not know when he wrote this that the head of the DEA has now confirmed the political motivation for the charges.

Written by jay on August 7th, 2005 with no comments.
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A Moron with Hacking Skills

I had a post up which quoted comment I made on Brent Colbert’s blog. Now I don’t.

Because this is very much a work in progress I’ve not built the assorted protections which a blog needs to keep morons from taking down posts which they are incapable of responding to in a marginally intelligent manner. Frankly, the people who read this site when it was on blogspot would never have stooped to this sort of cheap hackery.

Apparently Brent Colbert or one of his supporters, having brought a rock to gunfight figure the best thing to do is to shove it down the memory hole.

I would very much appreciate anyone happens to have a copy of the comment or a portion sending it to me. As for the sort of person who would hack a site to delete a post…sad. Very, very sad.

Written by jay on August 7th, 2005 with 1 comment.
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