Archive for May, 2003
Wednesday, May 28th, 2003
OK, please, no more Rambling!
I can’t tell you how many blogs I’ve seen with the word ramble, rambling, or ramblings in the title or description! OK, we get it! On a weblog, you can write about whatever you like. But please, if you insist on rambling non-stop about your cat’s dietary supplement, most of your accidental readers will amble [...]
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2003
Posting again
Well, I haven’t posted in a few days. Been busy. Very busy. Karla’s been in the hospital. She’s home now, and her recovery is going well. I see my traffic has dropped a bunch. Here are my thoughts on why: 1. There wasn’t that much “traffic” in the first place.2. I haven’t posted new stuff [...]
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Monday, May 26th, 2003
Thank you, Roland! or Radio's behaving again
Based on some (namely a Radio database path) from more than a year ago, I was able to discover some database entries that contain cached settings from the magic #upstream.xml files. Strangely enough, the backup file I had made (you’re supposed to do that, right?) was an entry in the table. I don’t know if [...]
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Sunday, May 25th, 2003
Why I'm No Dave Winer, Just a Big Whiner
I just emailed of with a list of questions related to work in standards, metadata, and other topics. He was very helpful in his responses. I won’t quote him here (I didn’t ask him if could), but here are coulple of links to their research projects. By the way, if you’re interested in that kind of [...]
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Saturday, May 24th, 2003
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Friday, May 23rd, 2003
Blogging Can Be The Pits
When nobody’s reading and nobody’s linking, . … Now, according to the egalitarian mythos of the Web, anyone can publish. You skip the step of requiring an editor and publisher, but no one is willing to skip the step of requiring an audience. I do get traffic. But when the only traffic you get is [...]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2003
Hummers and Armored Cars
I realized today what some of the appeal of the new H2 Hummers might be. I momentarily mistook an armored car behind me for a Hummer today. After realizing the true nature of the vehicle, I surmised that there might be something subconsciously comforting to today’s SUV driver. Power, stability, security. And you don’t have [...]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2003
. SuperBanana writes “The Register reports in a story today that spammers have banded together under the name EmarketersAmerica.org to sue various anti-spam … []
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Friday, May 23rd, 2003
You Go Girl!
. Some people think I aspire to be a failure. I have halted conversations, created gossip, and drawn quizzical, snide, or condescending looks — simply by admitting my career plans. By Julie Park. []
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Friday, May 23rd, 2003
Bloggin' down the Highway
Blogging? Yeah, I’m into it alright. Can you tell?
