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Events of note History

The 1989 Hare and Hound Race

The program for the race yesterday featured a story about the 1989 balloon race, the only one where the balloons actually took off and landed in the same place (lack of wind). The story was so funny that I re-printed it here…with a photo. Of course. A small issue with balloon “races”–of the Hare and […]

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Weblogging

This is wrong on so many levels

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As Matt Mullenweg said recently in comments about another post, this is wrong on so many levels. Both Biz Stone and Robert Scoble have a ‘How to Win the Blogging Game’ entries, except their posts are titled, Promoting your Blog and How will your blog get discovered. There is much in what both write that […]

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Browsers

More on Firefox

Another new, or I should say heavily modified, feature I accidentally discovered with the RC 1.0 version of Firefox (I don’t think it was in the .9x releases) is the “Find in this Page” text search capability. Previously, the search function was a window that would open, you’d type in the phrase, and it would […]

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Stuff

Arghhh

Damme I almost forgot – today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Shiver me timbers, I am such a gob. I thought I would re-post some writing and graphics from previous Pirate Day essays. Either that, or I could write on the upcoming US Presidential race–the two are interchangeable. re-printed from 2003’s Talk Like a Pirate […]

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Weblogging

Moult’s Protea and Golby

hat’s a heck of a title, isn’t it? Moult’s Protea and Golby. It sounds like the name of something on four legs that wins a lot of shows. (Will I be forgiven this? Hard to say…) Allan Moult has a new edition of Leatherwood Online out, and he shares his own Protea photo album. This is an interesting and […]