Happy New Year
Here’s to 2010… May she be a whole hell of a lot better than 2009! Lets face it 2009 pretty much sucked… Personally, I lost my dad when it was barely a month old and it was mostly down hill from there… Hopefully, 2010 will be better. I hope you all have, a safe, prosperous 2010. Cheers!
And Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Blogging…
Whew, I’m back… Ok so I wasn’t really gone I’ve just been swampped over the last week and haven’t been paying close attention to the news.
Anyway, my scheduled seems to have become unstuffed and I’m starting to catch up on the events of the last week… so I should be able to get back to blogging later to today.
Help Rob Simmons Retire Chris Dodd
Rob Simmons needs your help… He’s looking for 400 donors by midnight to help him send Chris Dodd into retirement 2010.
If you can chip in a few dollars, click here.
Happy Easter
Easter is a celebration of love that never fails…
…And life that never ends.
May your day be filled with joy!
Don’t Let the Sweet Face Fool You…
… She’s a terror.
I didn’t have much time for blogging this weekend since I had my hands full with this little beast:
I’m puppy sitting while my sister and her family are away on vacation… Don’t let the sweet face fool you, she’s a terror… And completely lovable.
Unfortunately, she’s all of about 9 months old and in her mind the whole world is a chew toy… If you leave her alone for to long you’re liable to find her chewing up a pair of you shoes or ripping the stuffing out of a sofa pillow.
Anyway posting may be sporadic for the next few days while I try to keep my mischievous little house guest from shredding everything in site.
One Year Old Today
Jasetaro.com is one year old today.
I launched this site on March 17, 2008 mainly because I’d out grown the laughable 5MBs of free web space provided by my ISP. I toyed around with free services like GoeCities, MySpace, Facebook and Blogger for a while and I wasn’t crazy about any of them. So after a couple of days of careful consideration this web site was born… The past year has been a combination of fun and frustration and I’ve learned a couple of valuable lessons.
1) Choose your web host carefully – when I launched this it was hosted by Yahoo Small Business Hosting… They were a disaster, in the roughly 4 months the site was hosted with then it was off-line 8 times because of server or database glitches. I moved the site to InMotion Hosting and, knock on wood, I haven’t had a problem since.
2) I you build it they will come – spammers that is… Roughly 95 percent of the comments posted here are spam. It’s never ending battle to keep these pages and the forum free of spam.
Anyway a little trivia, the majority of visitors come from the US, Canada, England and Australia. The top 5 stories of the past year were:
- Sarah Palin’s Private E-mail Account Hacked
- More Anti Israel Hate
- Don Surber 52 Days, 52 Mistakes
- Wall Street Journal: Just Say No to Detroit
- Poll Question: Who Won The Vice Presidential Debate
The top 5 web browsers are:
- Internet Explorer 7.0 35.48%
- Firefox 3.0 23.14%
- Internet Explorer 6.0 23.03%
- Firefox 2.0 6.08%
- Safari 525 5.03%
The top 5 Operating Systems used by visitors are:
- Windows XP 65.66%
- Windows Vista 16.83%
- Mac OS X 8.26%
- Windows 2000 4.65%
- Linux i686 1.04%
Spam Bots and a New Community
I mentioned in an earlier post that I’d been working on a few things behind the scenes… Over the last couple of weeks this site has been inundated by spam bots. In fact the number of spam comments has more than doubled over the last month.
For the most part this blog has weathered the storm pretty well, unfortunately that wasn’t the case with forums… Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been seeing roughly 10-15 bot registrations a day on the forum, that made the situation pretty much untenable from my point of view. This web site is more or less hobby, it’s something I do in spare time and it’s something generates little or no revenue so something had to change.
I’ve made some server configuration changes that should help keep many of the Spam Bots away, for awhile at least anyway, and I’ve migrated the forums from phpBB to vBulletin. I suppose I could have just shut the forum down but that’s not something I wanted to do.
Frankly the old forum was the least visited part of the site… Something I’d like to change, which is one of the reasons I decided switch from phpBB to vBulletin. In addition to having better spam fighting capabilities the new vBulletin based forum includes new features like community blogs, member photo albums and social networking in addition to the message boards.
Anyway here we are… Head over to CTLiberty.com… Registration is free and easy and you can be posting and blogging in minutes. 
Happy Valentine’s Day
Lest We Forget: J. Arthur Setaro
This is a sad day for me… Today would have been my father’s 87th birthday. Unfortunately he passed away on Friday, January 30th. We didn’t see eye to eye on many things but he was and still is my hero.
Like many of his generation he was a veteran of World War II, he served with 709th Military Police Battalion in Paris and later the 351st Engineer Regiment. Over the last few years he’d been visiting local schools and talking to students about his experiences during the war.
A photo of my father taken while he was serving with the 709th MP Battalion in WWII
Joseph Arthur Setaro, age 86, of Valerie Lane, Danbury, devoted husband of Mary (Schirmer) Setaro, died at Danbury Hospital on Friday, January 30th. He was born in Danbury on February 2, 1922, son of the late Frank and Rosa (Cicchetti) Setaro. He was a graduate of Danbury High School and Henry Abbott Technical School. He received his architectural degree from Fountain Blue School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.
Mr. Setaro was a Veteran of World War II, serving with the United States Army in Northern France. He worked as a teacher for Henry Abbott Technical School for 25 years. Prior to working as a teacher, he designed the original Amber Room, the Candlewood Inn, Habitat International, as well as various industrial and commercial buildings in the area.
He was a parishioner of St. Gregory the Great Church, a member of the American Institute of Architects, and was founder of the Danbury Ski Club. He also enjoyed speaking to area schools about his military experiences.
In addition to his beloved wife, Mary, he will be sadly missed by his son, Jeffrey A. Setaro of Danbury; his daughter, Jennifer Santulli and her husband, Stephen of Pound Ridge, NY; his grandchildren, Olivia and Andrew Santulli. He is also survived by his two sisters, Mary Duchesne and Julie Halpin, both of Danbury; as well as several nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by his brother, Lawrence Setaro and his sister, Barbara Stolle.
Funeral Services will be held at the Cornell Memorial Home, 247 White Street, Danbury, on Wednesday, February 4th at 6:00pm with Deacon Bill Murphy of St. Gregory the Great Church officiating. The family will receive friends between 4:00 and 6:00pm.
In appreciation for the care and support for Joe and his family, contributions may be made in his memory to Regional Hospice of Western Connecticut, 405 Main St. Danbury, CT 06810.
Light Blogging
Hi All, do to a family emergency blogging will be light to non-existant for the forseeable future.
Cheers;
Jeff
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