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Technology

Oh my oh

Tried to upgrade OS on my Mac, and it has failed badly. I’m right now in the middle of running fsck -yf to try and repair the volume, though it seems to be hanging on “Repairing volume” an awfully long time. I’m beginning to worry. I’ll try all the tricks I can and then probably […]

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Just Shelley

TiBook battery saga continues

The Apple Store is in the West County Mall, a very upscale and large mall that’s only about twenty minutes away. This was my first time in one of these, and my first reaction was that they must still be moving in. However, I was assured that the white, empty spaces made it easier to […]

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Weblogging

Sex, weblogging, and power

A few years back sex was introduced into weblogs in a major way and we went all shivery with anticipation about the freedom we had to explore our sexuality online–through pseudonyms or not, as the case may be. Women incorporated semi-nude glamour shots of themselves into their blog designs; or posted photos of their breasts […]

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W3C

The whole thing

The Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition was just issued as a W3C recommendation. I love that title — it reminds me of Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life”, volume one. Interesting bit about URIs in the document. To address the ‘resource as something on the web’ as compared to ‘resource as something that can […]

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Weblogging

Bloghost blogs

Elaine just posted a note at IT Kitchen that Bloghosts has failed, perhaps because of some form of deliberate manipulation. If you’re a Bloghosts blogger, and you’re adrift right now, feel free to use the Kitchen weblog as a way of letting people know where you’ve moved, or to let people know what’s happening with you until you […]