I remember once being critical of TypeKey because (as I said at the time) centralized services don’t scale. Those who didn’t agree pointed out the excellence of both Google and Technorati to demonstrate how well centralization works. This week, as I noticed comment spam in a TypeKey controlled blog, I thought back on that argument […]
Month: August 2004
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Exit door
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to to thank those (Steve, Loren, Liza, Tim) who have volunteered their weblogs for conversion for my upcoming tutorials on weblog tool independence. This is in addition to those who are offering space and installation of MT 3.1. I’ve been asked if because of this series I’m thinking of switching back to […]
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Etern-urh-Internment Debate
I listened to the debate between Eric Muller and Michelle Malkin on radio yesterday. It was interesting to hear views normally only read. Muller was very knowledgeable, but sometimes his legal background got in the way. For instance, when he asked Malkin to name one Japanese-American in the internment camps who was arrested for espionage, I think […]
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Relative terms
It’s dangerous to use relative terms such as hot, cold, sweet, salty, better, or worse. Doing so leaves the door open to miscommunications. For instance, I found today that my interpretation of the word ’short’ doesn’t agree with my hair stylist’s interpretation of the word ’short’. My idea was shoulder length, layered (since my hair […]
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Oh dear but this is sad
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. With some of the current unpleasantness going on in the WordPress support forum and elsewhere, I’ll focus more quickly on getting the WordPress to Movable Type format export finished. This doesn’t mean I’m encouraging people to move, as I really like WordPress. And it doesn’t mean you’re locked into moving back to Movable Type: […]