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Next Year in San Francisco
In a comment to an entry in which I mentioned that I had a way for Mac-using Salon Webloggers who were no longer using Radio UserLand to have updates to their Weblogs noted on Salon’s Recently Changed Weblogs page, Anne asked if I could figure out a solution for Windows users as well. It occurred… — read more
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They Won’t Even Get Out of the Way
From last month’s Harper’s Index: Percentage of Americans who said in November that the Valerie Plame leak scandal was of “great importanceâ€: 51 Percentage who said, two months before President Nixon resigned, that Watergate was “very seriousâ€: 49 Years since a White House official as senior as I. Lewis Libby had been indicted while in… — read more
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TrackBack
A few months ago, I posted answers to a list of questions that Meg had sent me and others about Weblogging. One question she asked that I neglected to answer was about the use of TrackBack. Basically, TrackBack allows you to refer to a post in another Weblog and have that noted in that Weblog.… — read more
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The Salon Weblog Community is Dead, Long Live the Salon Weblog Community
Word comes from Dick and others that the Salon Weblog community in which I and many others got our start may be winding down. Buddhist though I may be, I admit to being sad to hear this, even though I’ve long since left that community. It was through that community–a community that fostered more than… — read more
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Area Teenager’s Life Destroyed
Last Saturday, Brittany Eldredge’s parents left their fifteen year-old daughter home alone for a few hours to go out for dinner. Brittany invited three friends over, and technology in the hands of teenagers–the specter that excites and terrifies PTAs, small town newspapers, and local newscasts across the country–demonstrated its inherent danger. Word of the party… — read more
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3 Russians Walk Into a Bar…
This is one of the funniest jokes I’ve heard in a while: Two men meet on the street and one of them asks the other, Is it true that you formed a musical group? “Yes, a quartet.” How many? “Three.” Who? “Me and my brother.” You have a brother? “No.” — read more
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Patriots Wanted
Any volunteers? — read more
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Ten Questions and Some Answers
Dick started this, and Anne continued it, so I thought I’d join in as well. The Bible or Shakespeare: Both Anne and Dick mention the King James Version, but I’ve just started investigating Tyndale’s slightly earlier translation (his New Testament in particular), and it’s fascinating. Many people who know a lot more about these things… — read more
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A Meditation on Change
In his review of Melissa Hobrook Pierson’s The Place You Love is Gone (Progress Took It Away) (a book given to such observations as, “Change is a violation of personal laws,” and “‘Progress’ is just another word for larceny”), Anthony Swofford observes of Pierson that “change, again,” is “this author’s silent enemy.” Change is, of… — read more
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What’s Happening in New Orleans?
In this week’s episode of his le Show podcast, broadcast from the French Quarter, Harry Shearer discusses the redevelopment of New Orleans with a panel of community figures. If you want to know what’s actually going on there, you’re unlikely to learn more elsewhere. — read more
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