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Weblogging

Orange is the new blog

Recovered from the Wayback Machine, orange color and all. I like my new weblog color. Orange. Burnt orange to be exact. Bitter-sweet. The color suits because I’ve found weblogging to be both bitter as well as sweet, luckily more of the latter than the former. But you can’t taste the sweet without the bitter, and […]

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Technology

Full Peer Again

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave is referencing his Full Peer again. I like the concept of peers being able to link and serve as each other’s cloud. To me this is true distributed computing. However, a “peer” that’s guaranteed to be up 24 hours a day isn’t a true peer — it becomes a server. […]

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Writing

Tax Filings

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I finally found the kernel of the writer’s block I’ve had, as well as much of my restlessness in the last month — it was the end of year tax filings. Really, you would have laughed if you had seen me. I literally couldn’t approach the table with all my […]

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Places

Oregon Weather

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon likes the weather he experienced in Portland Oregon. I lived in Portland for four years, and in Seattle for nine years — after a time the drizzle and overcast can get a bit wearying, especially if you live in the city. Out of the city, though. That’s where the mist […]

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Weblogging

ISSN Number

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. For those of you who take your weblogging seriously, you might want to take a closer look at Allan Moult’s weblog. Underneath the name of the weblog is an actual genuine ISSN number — the same type of number used for all other periodicals including magazines such as the New Yorker, Wired, and […]