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Internet

Blacklists are evil

I have said it before and will say it again – blacklists are evil. In an effort to reduce the serious spammer problems we’ve been having (specifically my domain and some others are being targetted), Hosting Matters is now blocking SMTP access based on IP addresses from some kind of ‘list’. Well, Charter cable is […]

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Media

Winged Migration

If you’ve not seen the documentary movie Winged Migration, I can’t recommend it more highly. The filmmakers somehow manage to keep with the birds, filming at the bird’s perspective as the different breeds migrate around the world. The visuals are extraordinary, with minimal human presence. There is a strong environmental element to the story, but the […]

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Culture Diversity Weblogging

We women, we hookers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I liked what Kevin Murphy had to say in the comments to the post “In Defense of Michelle Malkin”: The only thing you can learn of substance from such an adverserial segment is that it’s pointless to expect to learn anything by listening to two unprepared pundits argue it out on TV. […]

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Books Writing

Free of the toothless sharks

Now that the book deal I had spent four month wrangling over has fallen through, I pulled the about page until I can figure out what it will say. (Oh, did you miss that particular rant? You’ve got to move quick in the Burningbird world, or you’ll miss the good stuff. You can, however, still […]

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RDF

Nope nope Nah ah Nope

Speaking of Planet RDF, I spotted a link to Jamie Pitts posting about the new DropCash – a fundraising organization effort using TypeKey and PayPal. Better not come back to this page if you use DropCash. No siree. If my page detects that you’re using a single sign-on proprietary, centralized service to manage your money collection, a hand will […]