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Weblogging

Bloggers with attitude

The Bloggers with Attitude webring now has 15 members, and growing. An interesting, eclectic group of folks, too! The newest member is Sharon Campbell of Pet Rock Star. Loved her weblog slogan: Voice of an Angel, Mouth of a Truckdriver Among the postings at her weblog I found (stealing liberally) the following: Wrestlers in Minnesota tried to – once again – get […]

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Writing

Editing goals

Edited two chapters today, meeting my goal. However, my goal for tomorrow (later today I should say) is four chapters. That little poof you just heard was my head exploding. All I can say is, it was nice knowing you before I fried myself to a burnt little cinder and a tiny bit of leftover ash that […]

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Environment

Bush attack on conservation

E.G. for Example has an excellent posting on the US Administration’s current efforts to strip away all progress made in the name of conservation for the last 50 years. Especially in light of so many revelations this year about Bush’s energy policies, the secret meetings, Cheney’s Halliburton roots taking such dominance in all of his efforts. Living […]

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Weblogging

Weblogging criticism

This has been a spooky day of independent but bizarrely related weblog postings. At least, I see them as related. I’ve been having a discussion with Jonathon in the comments related to a posting of his about criticism and how this is a necessary aspect of weblogging. Of criticism, he states: I’d like to see it more […]

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Technology

P2P and relying on HTTP

The Don Box discussion about HTTP was a good read with valid points. From a P2P, not a web services perspective, we need to guarantee certain capabilities in P2P services that we take for granted in more traditional client/server environments. This includes the following: Transaction reliability — the old two-phase commit of database technology appears again, but this […]