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Four Year Blogiversary

Posted by Robbie Cooper on September 22nd, 2008 | Trackback

I wrote my first post on this blog on Sept. 22, 2004. Four years later and I’m still at it.

Arcane Blog Minutia — Twitter Feed not Diplaying in IE

Posted by Robbie Cooper on September 19th, 2008 | Trackback

I’m not sure I’ll invest the time to try to resolve the IE issue with rendering my Twitter feed. It would just be so much easier if the rest of you could just switch to Firefox, Safari, or even Chrome.

Guess who is currently ranked as the most influential conservative blog in Texas?

Right On Austin Bloggers Luncheon

Posted by Robbie Cooper on August 8th, 2008 | Trackback

Because, frankly, we don’t believe that Austin is at weird as the slogan implies. We don’t believe that Austin is as Liberal as most think it is. We believe that the Liberals are just more vocal and better organized that we are.

UrbanGrounds — 7th Most Influential Conservative Blog in Texas

Posted by Robbie Cooper on August 4th, 2008 | Trackback

Blog Net News has upgraded their statewide blog influence index to include a 12 week rolling average, a per-post influence measure, and a new liberal and conservative influence rank.

Guest Bloggers

Posted by Robbie Cooper on August 1st, 2008 | Trackback

Anyhow — I’ve granted full Author and Publish permissions to two people who I trust and respect. So you might see a few new voices around here.

Blogiversaries for August 1, 2008

Posted by Robbie Cooper on August 1st, 2008 | Trackback

My 4th Blogiversary is just around the corner (Sept 22).

No Blogging Today

Posted by Robbie Cooper on July 28th, 2008 | Trackback

Chuck was killed riding his motorcycle last week when a gravel truck pulled out in front of him on HWY 29 in Georgetown.

What’s funny is watching the Left, despite the shivers for Obama running up and down their legs, try to maintain the facade of “unbiased” and “objective” reporting and analysis.

First blog post from new Samsung Instinct phone

Posted by Robbie Cooper on July 22nd, 2008 | Trackback

Just trying a test post with my new Samsung Instinct.

End of a Long Day

Posted by Robbie Cooper on July 18th, 2008 | Trackback

Also spent about an hour after the speech by Robert Novak (which totally kicked ass, and I’ll write more about it in the morning) talking to Terry Reid, who worked in the White House for the Reagan administration. I’m going to help her straighten out her Facebook page tomorrow.

Netroots Nation — Notable Texas Political Blogs

Posted by Robbie Cooper on July 18th, 2008 | Trackback

And the one Conservative blog? Yep, as part of their Netroots Nation coverage, they also have a nice little profile of UrbanGrounds (with a link, and they actually got my blog name right this time).

Civility in the Blogosphere

Posted by Robbie Cooper on July 18th, 2008 | Trackback

An interesting topic being discussed is the relative civility of tone and discussion in the Right-o-sphere. Which is a great contrast between the incivility on the Left-o-sphere.

Blogging Article in the Austin American-Statesman Today

Posted by Robbie Cooper on July 17th, 2008 | Trackback

It’s a good and fair article — just wish he would have at least got the name of my site correct. Oh well.