Rantlets

Update, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 — Alright, then — our e-mail glitch is sorted out. Granted, this may seem to be pretty petty stuff to be posting about. On the other hand, bear in mind who it is we’re dealing with here. Monday, February 25, 2008 — We seem to have incurred the wrath of the Gods of the Intertubes. We can currently receive e-mails, but we cannot send them. As a result, we have before us the opportunity to relieve ourselves of up to 20 pounds of unspeakable detritus from an internal organ, and to increase the dimensions of another organ to such an …

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Thursday, February 14, 2008 – Having recently made some fairly significant changes to the format of the Gazette, we’d like to give our readers some insight into why those changes were made, and what they mean for the future of this paper. As is so often the case, some knowledge of the past will be necessary in order to understand the future. The current editor acquired the ownership rights to of this paper nineteen years ago this spring, in what would best be described as an unusually hostile takeover. At that time the identity of the New Hampshire Gazette had been merged with that of …

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Friday, December 14, 2007 — Yes. Well. It seems that three and a half weeks have passed since we got off our editorial duff and posted anything new here. Our anonymous friend on the Beemer has been sitting motionless at that stoplight long enough. And the clamor for a reconstituted Chickenhawk Database has been overwhelming. We had hoped we could (a) figure out how to put it together, (b) build the framework, (c) fill in the data, and (d) unveil it, all without too much delay. We had hoped that for months; we could continue in that same direction until spring. So we have jettisoned …

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