BurningbirdA haibun is a combination of prose and haiku, with the haiku usually reflecting the writing, but not necessarily directly referencing it. It provides a personal perspective while still being detached; humorous and light, regardless of topic. I learned about this style of writing from Loren Webster, who provided a particularly deft haibun today, about sexual desire […]
Dave Rogers sounds a bit ambivalent about weblogging at the moment, so I thought I would publish a poem by the odd and delightful Ogden Nash that I think he’ll appreciate. By the way, Dave, you have to stay around; we need more people that know “War of the Worlds” is a remake. So Does Everybody Else, Only […]
I have to go to Ann Arbor, Michigan in the next couple of weeks, if the weather holds, to visit a very specialized store, to get material to make a very specialized, but late, Christmas present. Being Michigan, December is not the best time to travel in the state, so I thought I would check […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In my comments, Eric Wallace asked about multi-weblog support. I can answer him, with a few caveats, that yes, the first alpha release of Wordform will have multi-weblog support. The caveats are that this support, in addition to multi-user support, will be added as formalized extensions to the base product. Much of […]
I believe that, eventually, most comment spam strategies will have to have a system-wide component in place to truly combat this problem — something to watch for comment spam patterns happening on a server, and throttle accordingly. However, that’s something that can’t really be handled with the application. So, I’ll focus on what I can […]