Blog Update
I've made a few changes to the Blog of the Grateful Bear. I've been getting more and more "comment spam" (spam ads in the comments section of each blog entry), so I've made a change: If you want to leave a comment, you'll need to type in a verification word before your comment will be posted. I hope this will not discourage you from leaving your comments, if you're a legitimate reader of this blog and not some computer generating ads for real estate, credit cards, dating services, or Viagra.
Another change: the small advertisements in the left margin are there in an attempt to (hopefully) generate a small amount of revenue to support the websites I maintain. Blogger does not charge a fee for this blog, but I do pay a fee to Homestead.com for the webspace needed for my three non-blog websites:
So if you click on an ad and sign up with one of the advertisers, a small fee will go toward supporting these three websites. I myself am a member of both Audible.com and eMusic, and I highly recommend both sites, especially if you have an iPod. Here are some of the albums I've downloaded from eMusic in the past month:
Another change: the small advertisements in the left margin are there in an attempt to (hopefully) generate a small amount of revenue to support the websites I maintain. Blogger does not charge a fee for this blog, but I do pay a fee to Homestead.com for the webspace needed for my three non-blog websites:
So if you click on an ad and sign up with one of the advertisers, a small fee will go toward supporting these three websites. I myself am a member of both Audible.com and eMusic, and I highly recommend both sites, especially if you have an iPod. Here are some of the albums I've downloaded from eMusic in the past month:
- Dar Williams: "My Better Self"
- The Best of Mickey Hart: "Over the Edge and Back"
- Krishna Das: "All One" (only 4 tracks, but almost an hour of beautiful kirtan chanting)
- Various Grateful Dead-related Artists: "Dead Delites Volume 4"
- The Best of Bob Weir: "Weir Here"
Hopefully the ads will not be a distraction from the blog itself. If you click through the Tarot.com ad (at the very bottom of the page) and have an online reading, I recommend using the Golden Tarot deck (at the bottom of the screen you'll have a chance to choose the deck you use for the reading). The Golden Tarot is a beautiful deck, using collages of artwork from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. And the Hermit card in the Golden Tarot is based on St. Francis of Assisi.
Darrell
www.WildFaith.com
posted by Darrell Grizzle | 11:06 AM
5 Comments:
Those spammers find us all, don't they?
Dar Williams is awesome- her writing, so honest and free. She has great melody structures and her voice is fragile at times, aching with emotion and desire to communicate her inner most feelings. I had the chance to meet Dar in 2000, she's such a tiny little women it's hard to imagine all of this music coming out of her.
I'm not sure if it looks like this on all platforms, but on my browser (firefox) at full screen resolution, the ad for tarot.com ends up spilling over into the text field. It doesn't bother me too much but as that's the sort of thing people often ask about when they try a new format, I thought you might want to know.
Thanks, pj. On my browser the ad was touching the text but not spilling over. I've removed that ad on the left side; there's a banner ad for Tarot.com at the very bottom of the page.
Isaiah, Dar Williams' new album has touched me deeply! I'll be doing a blog entry soon about her song "Teen for God," the first track on the new CD.
Cool way to protect the blog from spam. I like it!
Love your blog. Those quotes about man and God were provocative.
Julie
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