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Just Shelley

Burningbugs

Today was hot and humid, which meant the fireflies were out, in force, at dusk. One particularly frisky little bug hovered in front of the living room window, seemingly infatuated with the magnificant glow of the small light by the window. Zzz. It said. Zzz. Zzz. Callous light just glowed steadily, ignoring the little critter. […]

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Weblogging

Thou art mortal

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Gary asked an interesting question earlier in the week: I wonder how many people started blogging after receiving this dictat from Chris Locke. Seems that Chris, otherwise known as Rageboy is blogging papa to several people, including Gary, Denise, Jeneane and others. I didn’t start weblogging because of Chris. I blush to admit that I started weblogging in April […]

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Technology Weather

Tracking the tracker

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Heat index in St. Louis today was 105. That’s 1-0-5. Rather than out finding new paths, I’m keeping my San Franciscan acclimated butt inside, playing around with the new version of MT. Stavros – someone is watching you. Hee Hee. (Now, you’re all supposed to go over to Empty Bottle and see […]

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Weblogging

Speaking of courtesy

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Happy Tutor has written a longish weblog posting regarding my earlier posting, The Lost Art of Courtesy. Happy writes: I wonder, though, BB, are courteous blogs “scaleable”? If we want to reach an audience of 10-20 personable losers, and we all constantly comment on each other’s posts, then it would be cozy, […]

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Political Technology

Bush-Cheney-Gates: We are watching you

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave Winer can sometimes be over the top at times (in truth, so can I), but he’s not far off the mark when he writes, “…foreclosure. That’s what MS is doing with everything we hold dear.”. What Dave’s talking about is Palladium, Microsoft’s newest innovation. What’s it all mean? Well, think about that […]