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Burningbird

More feed changes

Thanks to Laura and Michelle in comments, I’ve downloaded and installed the Durpal comments RSS module. I don’t have header links yet, but you can access the comments feed at http://realtech.burningbird.net/crss. I also created a global comments syndication feed. I really prefer Atom, but there is no Atom comments feed for Drupal. In addition, the existing Atom feed needs tweaking, so […]

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Just Shelley

Powerbook update

I have good news and bad news about my Powerbook. The bad news is that the mother board is DOA. The good news is that I’m still covered under the extended AppleCare warranty. For some reason, I had thought the warranty was expired, but the guy at the Apple store looked up the machine and […]

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Connecting

Comments and other snowflakes

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just wanted to point out that I have re-activated new user registration on most of my sites, including RealTech. If you register for an account and I know you, I’ll also give you trusted user status and you’ll be able to comment without the comment going into moderation. You […]

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Just Shelley

The stories this week: killer caught, fireworks over the flood

Recovered from the Wayback machine. Today is the 4th of July and St. Louis will again have its spectacular fireworks display—considered one of the top ten in the country—over the Mississippi tonight. Unfortunately, the annual summer festival, Live on the Levee is off the levee due to the recent flood. Currently, water levels in St. Louis are […]

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Copyright

Google, YouTube, and the Good and Bad

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m not one of those piling on the sack cloth and ashes over today’s ruling directing Google to turn YouTube user records over to Viacom. Was the ruling overreaching? Oh, probably without a doubt, but it also justifies the worries we’ve had about Google’s storage of our user information. In fact, it was […]