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Burningbird

Good news bad news

The Good News is: The trackback and comment spammers couldn’t get through while my ISP was under DDoS attack this evening.

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Social Media

Distributed digital IDs

Like others interested in digital IDs, I’ve been looking at LID and hope to install it this weekend, maybe tonight. I’m interested in any system that’s decentralized, as LID appears to be. However, I want to take a closer look before I make any assumptions of the mechanics of the approach. More later, after I have a […]

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Photography

Forbidden photos

I didn’t venture far for a walk today, not after several days of rain followed by a freeze. Whatever areas I would hike that aren’t at threat for flood, are at threat for rock falls. But I did get out for the first time in five days for a walk around Powder and it felt good. I noticed […]

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Weblogging

So

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When my roommate came home tonight, I asked him if he’d heard that Six Apart might buy LiveJournal. “Six who, buy live what?”, he asked. “Six Apart and LiveJournal.” “Who or what are Six Apart and LiveJournal.” “They’re weblogging companies. Well, to be more precise, Six Apart is a weblog company, […]

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RDF Writing

Reviews and updated chapters

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just read a review of Practical RDF out at Amazon that wasn’t very complimentary. In fact, I’ve had few complimentary reviews of the book, which can happen with a book. Sometimes you hit; sometimes you miss. I can’t do much about the typos in the book (though these really […]