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Political

While you were cowering in fear: part 1

Warning: this political message contains no reference to Vietnam, lies, lies about lies, boats, planes, or typeface. It has not been screened by webloggers for accuracy, nor has it been endorsed by any political pundit currently appearing on the Technorati Top 100. View at your own risk. Because agricultural inspection has been folded, along with […]

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Internet

Domains for free

Tripping over to Loren Webster’s In a Dark Time weblog, I was surprised to see “Domain expired”. However, it’s been renewed so more poetry should be forthcoming. If you’re thirsting for the words now, then you can use his “tilde” URL – http://gemini.hmdnsgroup.com/~loren/In_a_Dark_Time/. Now might also be a good time to go to his front page, because I […]

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Just Shelley

The Crystal pendant

Last week on the way back from the store, I noticed a sparkle in the car in front of me. The driver had one of those lead crystal pieces that you hang over the rear view mirror, and which reflects rainbow light back into the interior of the car. I can never see one of […]

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Just Shelley

In France Now

I drove over to see my Dad in the hospital yesterday. When I entered the room he looked at me without recognition for a moment, before going “Michelle? What are you doing over here?” Though the trip is four hours each way, that’s not outside of reason for visiting one’s father. I said, “I though […]

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Diversity

In support of O’Reilly

For all the times I’ve been critical of O’Reilly about the lack of women participants at the company’s events, I now find myself needing to speak up in support of the organization generally and Tim O’Reilly specifically. At Misbehaving, Liz Lawley noticed that the number of female participants at FooCamp was only 10% of the total. However, I know […]