BurningbirdI have been playing around with new sites and new looks. For instance, one new look for Burningbird can be seen here. I also started a couple of new sites, at Tin Foil Project and Tin Foil President. I was going to use these for both social and political commentary, separating these topics from the Burningbird weblog. The name […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Six Apart has released MT 2.66 specifically because of comment spam. One change is throttle control, which means if you get hit from the same IP address with several comments in a row, MT will shut down the IP. This wouldn’t have helped with the recent comment blitz because that person […]
A friend wrote that rather than do any kind of formal break, just write when I feel like it, don’t when I don’t or don’t have the time. Good advice. I also heard from old friends, in comments and in email, and well, it was nice. Meant a lot to me – about as much […]
Now, what was there about a mountain and my name, and not pestering nice people? Oh, yes. I had somewhere else I was supposed to be, now. I have a book to write. I have some friends I’m helping. There’s a hundred hikes with my name on them, and I am not packing my computer […]
Better crumbs to leave behind me than notes on comment spammers. Two little boys in a square in San Antonio, hiding behind their coats pretending to be pigeons that they chase from the square. An exercise in light one night when I was playing around. I walked in the meadows last weekend, a dark day […]