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Trying something new

I’ve been meaning to redesign this site for a while, to set aside more screen space for writing, both to make it easier to read longer pieces for readers but also to help me focus more on just plain old writing instead of all the other junk I used to keep here. As I sat [...]


Posted
17 April 2005 @ 12am

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New Design Tinkering

I’m playing with a new design for this site. My old site was basically a “temple of ego” that covered just about everything I was doing online and when I stripped it all away to start over, I knew eventually I wanted to bring back a bit of the clutter.
I just started working on this [...]


Spam a lot

About 14 months ago I started using Knowspam for email whitelisting, and I remember more than one person basically said “wow, email must be broken.”
While whitelisting is a bit of a pain on random strangers that email me, it does mean that I get almost no spam in the 50-60 emails I get every day. [...]


My s700i review

I just posted a review of my Sony Ericcson s700i cameraphone that I love to death. It’s the first new feature I’ve written in months, but expect to see another one in a few days. I’m suddenly feeling like writing again.


Ye Olde School

Jason’s latest retro feature reminded me that I too used to have a boring webcam on my site, and how folks used to setup multi-blogs with everyone’s webcam shot going down the side with their posts intermingled. You could probably do the same today fairly easily with RSS and a bit of hacking.
So anyway, there’s [...]


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2 February 2005 @ 4pm

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The sleeping giant

Man, I didn’t know that my little late night blurb written mostly to myself would spark such a reaction. I guess I woke a sleeping giant or something. Dave is annoyed, Tom blames it on tools, and Andre wants more flexibility.
The funniest thing is I kind of called for this to grow last summer, and [...]


No one can have nice things!

I was looking at an old blog entry here when I was surprised to find my first trackback spam. Free asian rape beastiality being offered directly from an old post! Then I dug around and sure enough, there were over 200 spammy trackbacks sent from January 5th through the 20th.
What’s funny about it is [...]


Stinky links

A few friends started posting all their daily links to their blog like I’ve been doing for the past few months, and when I see their sites pop up into my blo.gs sidebar or my bloglines account, I get all excited that they wrote something, but then there’s a bit of a let down when [...]


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5 January 2005 @ 4pm

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Down with FT

Quick, before it disappears behind the subscriber wall, you can read another article about blog ads, this time in the Financial Times. I’m proud of it because the reporter hit me at a cynical, bitter time. I had talked to three reporters from different outfits the previous week, all doing rah-rah “anyone can do this!” [...]


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5 November 2004 @ 3pm

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Testing out TiVo

I’m testing out TiVo’s new “permalink a show” feature. Here’s a link to next week’s new Douglas Rushkoff Frontline show. Hopefully it’ll find it on your local PBS instead of Boston’s WGBH, where I found it in TiVo Central.


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