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Critters

Pets

Whether they are cute and furry, slither across the floor, or fly around the room, we all love our pets. Cats and Dogs Cats and dogs are still the most popular pet, with fish and birds a distant runner in the pet race. After all, who can resist a cute little puppy with big brown […]

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Diversity

On I am not a feminist

“I’m not a feminist” Yesterday I provided two definitions of what a feminist is: one from Merrian-Webster and one of my own. Since then, I’ve seen “I am not a feminist” repeated, in particular at the Blogsisters weblog. I’ve also heard people say that they prefer to use “humanist” rather than feminist. Shannon did an excellent recap of much […]

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Weblogging

Blogtank

Gary, one of my favorite webloggers has a new idea (which should strike terror in the hearts of everyone who knows him) — a blogtank, equivalent to a weblogging think tank. I like the premise of proposing a topic, and then seeing how different people respond to it. I’m just not sure about all those webloggers’ […]

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Weblogging

Pulled post

In case you’re wondering, yes, I did pull an earlier weblog posting. Meryl had left comments with the post, but I don’t think she’ll mind that I pulled it considering that the nature of the posting was a joke, and a bad one at that.

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Technology

No such thing as a full peer

Sorry, a break on earlier topic to jump back momentarily into technology: In regards to the release of Userland’s Radio Community Server — there is no such thing as a full peer. Any machine that must be on 24×7 to serve a community of clients is called a “server”. Why must some people seek to re-write […]