Outed!
May 20th, 2008 | by Craig |Colby Natale has made the shocking — SHOCKING — discovery that I host websites, specifically The Hammond Report.
He’s absolutely right. I do. And sometimes I help them get up and running. And sometimes I help people out with technical issues.
I also host Parkway Rest Stop, KC Council 9976 in Billings, my own website, my family’s (way outdated) website, and am working on a project for a friend, as well as another project for myself.
So there you have it. I host websites free of charge for myself and other people.
My dirty little secret is out.
18 Responses to “Outed!”
By david on May 20, 2008 | Reply
More power to ya, buddy. The good fight, etc.
By Dave on May 20, 2008 | Reply
Seems that about the only freebie hosting we give out are for the non-profits.
By Colby Natale on May 20, 2008 | Reply
I wasn’t intended this post to come across as some sort of great PI breaking news. Clearly, it was not hard to notice and you don’t seem to be ‘hiding’ the fact. I merely point it out because of the order of magnitude of difference between the amount of respect you and Andy garner.
By Erica on May 20, 2008 | Reply
OMG, Craig! This is an outrage. Websites? Domains? Hosting? You’re just not the Craig I thought I knew.
By Cammy on May 20, 2008 | Reply
Seriously, he doesn’t look at this as a left/right issue. As a matter of fact, he offered to help out one of the bloggers from the sinestra side of the aisle. Shocking, I know, but there ya have it.
By Randy on May 20, 2008 | Reply
Now that you’ve been “outed” have you told your Missus or she OK with that type of thing?
By Cammy on May 20, 2008 | Reply
I’ll be nice to you, Randy.
Just this once.
By Craig on May 20, 2008 | Reply
@David-
These damned kids on our lawns!
@Dave-
Mostly I do the hosting as favors. I have bandwidth and disk space and don’t use all of it, so what the hey.
@Colby-
I see. So you think that what I do and have done should be measured by your opinion of who I give disk space and bandwidth to? Then why not use KC as the measuring stick? Or Parkway Rest Stop? You want I should vet everyone through a committee of sinestra bloggers?
By Colby Natale on May 20, 2008 | Reply
Wow,
Look at you take that tiny post and run with it. I never should you should vet anything against anyone, did I? Show me where I suggested such a thing. In my opinion (and I acknowledge it is just that), Hammond is below dirt. So yes, in that specific case, I am disappointed. No, that doesn’t mean you have to do jack shit. You know it, so stop pretending like I suggested otherwise.
Like you said to Dave, you host people as favors. I was just pointing out that to many of us, Hammond doesn’t deserve favors. You are certainly free to disagree, and undoubtedly you will…probably in classic over-sarcastic and slightly-demeaning fashion.
By Colby Natale on May 20, 2008 | Reply
Cammy,
It doesn’t surprise me that Craig would help a left-wing blogger get going. He does indeed seem like that kind of guy, which is great.
By Craig on May 20, 2008 | Reply
Yes it’s a tiny post, and I’m a little disappointed that I let myself get dragged into this, but I’m trying to figure out why you would even make it an issue.
Let me ask you this, Colby. Should I judge your guy Obama by what Jeremiah Wright said for 20 years in that church? Or should I judge him on his own merits?
You tell me.
By Colby Natale on May 20, 2008 | Reply
Hey, the fact that Obama went to that church so long, despite what Wright was saying, does (even to me) make me wonder if Obama doesn’t agree with some of it. I do think it is fair to question Obama about a person who was so close to his life. I never questioned people for interrogating Obama based on that relationship, because we are judged by the company we keep. If Obama was a part time attendant, or had only been there a year…that would be different, but he was there for quite some time. In the end, I think Wright was crazy on the HIV thing, and I don’t think Obama agrees. However, I think Wright is right (ha) about ‘everything that goes around, comes around’. I bet Obama would agree with him there.
You should judge him on his own merits as well, but association is part of a person’s whole. That is true of all of us. In the end, I ‘made an issue out of it’ (although, given my readership, that is a stretch) because I so loathe Andy Hammond. It could be anyone else, and I wouldn’t have batted an eyelash, but to help Hammond, seems to me like helping the worst element of our medium. It seems like promoting the worst possible example of blogging there is.
That is just me. Perhaps this came across more personal than I meant it.
But Hammond!?!?!?
By Doug on May 20, 2008 | Reply
Interesting lesson. Those who some dislike because of how they approach politics should not be offered help, while those who do offer aid are somehow showing a character flaw for doing so. I’ll throw my lot in with the latter every day, thank you.
By Colby Natale on May 20, 2008 | Reply
You generalize too much. I would help you, Craig, Geeguy, Wiley Cody, etc with a problem if I could. There is a level of respect. Honest to god, I think I might even aid Eric Coobs. From my standpoint, helping Hammond is another thing entirely. I get that you don’t agree, but please don’t try to paint me with that ‘look down on Conservatives’ brush. When I talk of Andy, it is not talking about a Conservative; it is talking about a mean-spiriting, purposefully misleading ass. There is a big difference.
By Andy B. Hammond on May 21, 2008 | Reply
Colby,
Wow, calling me a mean spirited ass. Perhaps you should look in the mirror.
By Colby Natale on May 21, 2008 | Reply
Nice try Andy; sitting up there on your moral perch above the masses. I’m only this way about people who so blatantly try to subvert open conversation and who will cut the other side down using any means necessary, no matter how low.
By Wulfgar on May 21, 2008 | Reply
Personally, Andy, I think Colby is incorrect as regards the ‘guilt by association’ thing. But he’s spot on in calling you a mean spirited ass. Ya’ see, pointing a finger at a jerk and calling ‘em a jerk isn’t mean spirited, it’s honest. I kinda think that’s the way things work in Montana. We make deals with them, we trade with them, we even help them out when they need it. But that shouldn’t stop anyone from pointing out, “yeah, that guy? He’s a jerk”. Andy, you’re a jerk (or ass, if you prefer.)
No, that’s not mean spirited. Deriding and reviling entire groups of people just because they don’t agree with the beliefs you yourself can’t live up to? Now that’s a mean spirit. Read your Bible, pal. It’s the textbook definition of “mean spirit”. Funny thing that, Andy. That would be you.
By Colby Natale on May 21, 2008 | Reply
In response to Wulfgar’s mention of ‘guilt by association’, I want to say that I am not meaning, by any stretch, to imply that Craig is like Andy, or that Craig approves fully of Andy, or that he is a jerk/ass.
In no way do I mean that.
I was just surprised, given Andy’s ‘way’ that he found help from someone who is certainly not a jerk/ass.