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Political Weblogging

War shit

Tom writes today that he’s bowing out of war blogging: I think I’ve finally got the Iraq blogging out of my system. I wish I hadn’t allowed myself to get sucked into it. It’s not what people read my blog for. Readership seems to have evaporated. Emails and quotes have been conspicuously absent. I should have […]

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Weblogging

Body parts campaign

One week it was teeth the next it’s lips. I don’t know about anyone else, but I think it’s time for Rageboy to give equal time to other body parts. So, I’m starting an email campaign and am asking for your help. To participate, copy and send the following in an email to RageBoy, replacing it with the body […]

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Technology Weblogging

Updates and a banana

Some updates: First of all, work is progressing on ThreadNeedle. My first implementation plan had to be scraped when I found that the Redland RDF infrastructure doesn’t seem to want to work on my FreeBSD machine. Additionally, the Redland Perl code also overwrote the existing Perl RDF libraries, and broke my content management system. I […]

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Political

Point by Point

Eric Olsen applauds Dean for his point-by-point response to my weblog posts, and since my refusing to continue responding to my posts in Eric’s comments is somehow seen as a ‘defeat’ by this crowd, I thought I would respond to every one of this Dean’s responses in this post. And Dean, if you want to respond to this post, […]

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Political Weblogging

Chrysalis

My last real hike was on a barely discernable path in the Ozarks. I walked through bushes that reached out twitchy branches, catching at my clothes as I tried to push past. Every curve in the path brought a new experience–a deer standing in a meadow, staring at me in startled surprise before bounding away; […]