He's suing NME over some story:

The magazine criticised the former Smiths star for allegedly telling
a reporter Britain had lost its identity due to high levels of immigration.

Go here for more info: Morrissey vs. the NME.

What else did I do all weekend? Not much. I was on call but luckily didn't get called in at all. Went running. Did a nice 8 miles yesterday. Watched movies (my rating out of 5 stars): Consenting Adults (3), Crash (4), Mr. Brooks (3.5), Hostel 2 (2.5). At least 3 of the movies had nudity, I don't think Crash did, my top priority for seeing a movie so that was good. Plus plenty of bloody killing, yeah!

That's it for Weekend Recap I think.

Another new feature I'll try to phase in: I used to...

I ran a race in the morning. The Gobble, Gobble, Gobble in Davis Sq. It was very convenient to take the T from Charles/MGH to Davis but that's when the trouble started. I was trying to meet Tara and her sister before the race and we were on the phone when we were trying to coordinate where to meet and my phone went dead. So I stood around trying to spot her but when it was 15 min. to race time I had to go find the bag drop-off to get rid of my stuff. I was going to put it in Tara's car. I wasn't sure where the bag drop-off was so I walked to the Burren thinking maybe it was there and then they told me it was back by the start which is where I just came from. I was kinda annoyed. I walked back to find it and luckily did, it was kinda out of the way and not very noticeable. It was close to race time and they were just starting to close it all up but I made it in time. Went back to the race start and looked more for Tara. I thought I would find her because she's so tall but I didn't and the race started so I just jumped in somewhere and started running. I hadn't been running that long when Tara showed up next to me. Yeah! We finally hooked up and ran together. The first mile was soooo crowded it took us 10 min. That pretty much ruined any chance of a good race time so I just tried not to push it and relax. Tara's been injured lately so she didn't want to push it. We ran a comfortable race and so our time speaks to that, and the crowded first mile. Tara had to take off right after the race to get to Thanksgiving dinner and I didn't want to wait in a long line at the Burren for beer at that point so we left right after. It was kinda neat to get up and race and get home in such a short amount of time.

I was starving the rest of the day trying to save my appetite for turkey because we didn't eat until like 6 or so. I think I ate too fast because I've felt sick ever since.

1046 out of 1948
37:18 for 4 miles
9:20 minutes/mile
163 out of 383 age group
420 out of 1019 female

SU versus Ohio St

Don't miss it! and put your cash on the 'Cuse.

Didn't have any good clothes to wear dancing and ended up wearing boring clothes, feeling ridiculous when I left the house but it didn't seem to matter in the grand scheme of things. Met Tara and Jess at Remington's for a quick drink before heading to the Alley for dancing. We decided to try the Liquor Store. The guy at the door was checking my license and said 'Speaking of #2.' I had no clue what he was talking about, honestly the first thing that came to mind was poop, especially since I was at the bar telling the girls about rectaling cows and how you get poop all over you, and he got all excited yelling 'Rock Chalk Jayhawk' at me and I still wasn't sure what the deal was but figured it was something about Kansas University sports. I'm forgetting to tell you that I have a Kansas license so that's what sparked it all. I later found out that the KU football team had beaten the #2 team or something like that.

Got in the club. Not many people there yet. A small amount of chicks dancing, the crowd seemed very young. They have mechanical bulls there too so you can waste time watching that. Whoever's in charge of the bull makes it kinda easy for the chicks so they stay on longer and the guys get thrown off in a second or two, hard, right on their head usually. Got some more drinks to waste time, shot of tequila...

Eventually we started dancing. I thought the music was fine. Some guy was all up on Jess and wouldn't leave her alone and it turned into a bit of a shoving match. I think I got the last shove in w/ some obscenity and he was gone. Soon we each ended up w/ our own dancing partner and that's how we stayed until closing. Mine and Tara's guy were from Brazil, they were not friends though. Mine was a good dancer so I had a great time dancing w/ him all night and he was okay looking but he was only 5'7" according to his license. Too short for me! At the end of the night he said 'You my girlfriend' over and over among some other things. I ended up giving him my phone number though I ditched him at the Common where his car was parked. He wanted to drive me home but I insisted I would walk, which I did. He texted me the nexted day 'Hi Honey I miss you.' Nothing since. There was another guy I met at the end of the night that I thought was friends w/ this guy and he got my number too and then turned out he wasn't friends w/ my guy, and proceeded to call me several times the minute I walked away from the club and again on Saturday night. Nothing since Saturday though. Luckily we all made it home okay and had a fun night.

When I got home I was trying to get confirmation that Tara made it home okay, which finally came around 4am I think. I did my usual late-night after going out ritual of putting on Intervention On Demand from A&E and fell asleep around 5am. I kept waking up all night and drinking the soda sitting by my bed while I counted to 10 each time. Weird.

Finally got up at 9:30, couldn't stay asleep, and had some breakfast w/ the roomies. I was going to Maine that afternoon and needed to get ready.

I was going to see B Lu and Dan in Maine but Dan was flying into Boston that afternoon from Kansas so I was to meet him at the bus station and take the bus w/ him to Maine. I got to the 2:15 bus at 2:13 and tried to hold it for Dan but he didn't make it in time so we got on the 3:15. Once in Portland we drove to Bath for dinner because we were going to The Chocolate Church for a night of music. We saw the Heat It Up! Series. It was really good but a little weird because you're sitting in a church watching them perform and it was a small, older crowd so it was pretty mellow. I bought Kate Schrock's CD Indiana. I didn't know it was on iTunes; I could have saved $5.01. The song 'If Loving You' is what made me buy the CD but the CD version wasn't as good as live.

Sunday Me, B Lu and Dan drove to Lewiston area to meet Jen and James to have brunch at Denny's. We all got to catch up before B Lu and Dan move back to Kansas at the end of November. James is auditioning for some Reality Poker Show. Check out his YouTube audition video. He really, really, really, really, really wants to be picked, huh? James, I hope you get picked but that video is crazy!

I made it back to Boston in time to hook up w/ Tara and make it to The Burren to pick up our bibs for the Gobble, Gobble, Gobble 4 miler on Thursday. Then we went across the street to Joshua Tree so we could sit, The Burren was kinda full, and had a beer. Then we ditched it because it was lame and went back to The Burren for more beer and food. Then we decided to go home but Joslynn was just back from the Joshua Tree in Allston and wanted to hook up so although we were already driving away we made a crazy loop around Davis Sq. and found Joslynn on the corner and then went into this other sketchy bar Sligo's. Had some more beer, though Tara was DD and switched to soda, we made her dance w/ a nice Irish guy and then proceeded to meet the rest of the Irish gang that none of us could understand. Irish accents and lots of beer don't mix well when trying to verbally communicate. It's hard enough without the beer.

Eventually made it home and life was back to usual.

Here's the little long of it, courtesy of RobReed:

The first thing is to define what 'a weblog like yours' means. There are a number of defining characteristics of your weblog; things that make it unlike most weblogs.

You host it.

The majority of weblogs are run on a hosted service like Typepad, and Wordpress.

Yours runs on your own server.

There are advantages and disadvantages of both. A hosted service is easier to setup. He could have a weblog up and running in minutes (or less). Many hosted services offer multiple levels of service. Basic accounts are often free but feature limited. Full or premium accounts are typically reasonably priced (though looking at typepad.com now there premium account is $29.95 a month or $299.50 a year which seems really really steep). There are other levels of service.

With a hosted service you typically interact with the site using a web based admin interface, and post via web forms, or other similar sorts of front-ends (maybe a standalone application that you install on your computer, or a browser extension that allows you to quickly make a post about a website you're visiting, etc).

You can extend or customize your weblog by mixing and matching various modules (extensions). You can change the look of your weblog using various pre-defined templates or even design and develop your own.

These services tend to be easy to use and fairly feature complete (if you're willing to pay a fee for some of those features).

The biggest limitation you're likely to encounter are storage or bandwidth limits. You may be limited to a max amount of storage space, a maximum amount of data that you can transfer to the service in a given period of time, or a max number of traffic generated by visitors to your site. You can usually buy your way out of these restrictions.

Other significant issues:

Because you don't have direct access to your content, you want to make sure you know how to export all of your content should you want to move your weblog to another service in the future. This process may not be straight-forward. For example, the photo sharing site flickr has a number of restrictions about exporting content from the service which limits its appeal.

You may not be able to do everything you want to do. The host chooses features/functionality that it feels are appropriate for the majority of their users. You might disagree.

With a free account you are likely to have a address that appears to be a subdirectory of or subdomain of the hosts domain. For example, typepad.com/yourweblog/. You may prefer to have your own domain, e.g. yourweblog.com. You should be able to buy this 'feature' but you'll need to upgrade beyond the free accounts.

If you have your own server you can do pretty much whatever you want and because the most popular weblog software packages are free you don't need to worry about software costs (or reoccurring monthly payments). Of course maintaining a server isn't free.

Your site is somewhat unique because it doesn't use one of the most popular packages (movabletype and wordpress being the two biggest). Instead it runs on a lightweight script called Blosxom. The blosxom site does a good job of presenting the major advantages.

The style of interaction is very simple. Posts are simple text files. You can create and edit content either via a web form or using any text editor. You can publish the content simply by moving the posts to the server (there are many different ways).

So he can tell you if he's interested in a hosted service or hosting his own weblog and then he can go from there.