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Burningbird

Getting hammered

Someone used a fake email address from my ‘yasd.com’ domain to send a huge spam emailing and I’m getting hammered with email rejections and mail delivery system failures. If I find the little creep that did this, I’m going to take out that virus code someone embedded in my comments and use it to fry […]

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Weblogging

Morphing URLs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I signed up at Blogrolling.com to manage my blogroll, and you can the results in this page. Scroll down and you’ll see the ten most recently active webloggers in my virtual neighborhood. Click the “more…” link and you’ll go to my Blogroll page. I’m using the blogrolling.com feed a couple of different […]

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Copyright

I’m not going to say it…

Unfortunately, I came down with the same flu that’s hit so many others. This and a nasty snow storm that just blew in are conspiring to keep me from my much needed walks and explorations, dammit. So I might as well work on the edits for Practical RDF, and some tech tweaks around here. One […]

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Burningbird

Referrers, just for fun

The last two weeks have been long indeed, and it hit me tonight that I’m tired, and that I really need to get away from the computer. My back is doing extremely well, and I want to get out for a nice long, gentle hike. There’s also an Art Deco neighborhood somewhere in St. Lou […]

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Writing

On writing

I know I said this once before, but it’s worth repeating:   Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be writers.   Once you step over the line from being a writer who lives to write to being a writer who writes to live, you’ve entered Dante’s Eleventh Circle. The bad one. The one […]