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Political

Political Games

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. With the American election getting ever closer, the political games will continue to increase. If we’ve managed to stumble about in naiveté for the last three years, now is the time to wake up, and smell the cynicism. There have been a number of folk who have tried to generate […]

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Media

If only I weren’t lost in translation

Though I couldn’t take pictures of the storm when I was looking at it from the parking lot last Monday, I did try to take some photos of it when I got home. However, when I started to take the pictures, my camera began emitting this high pitched whistle, just like the sound things make […]

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Diversity

No room at the top

I have been remiss in the past in all my criticisms of Six Apart’s business practices and Movable Type coding gotchas. One thing I did not comment on favorably was the fact that Mena Trott was CEO of the company. In our environment where it’s rare to hear a woman’s name in a list of […]

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Just Shelley

If only parents weren’t so real

If only I had brought the camera – I could have shown you such pictures of last Monday’s storm. The clouds were furious, angry, as if annoyed at having to push against the front facing them. Yet here and there among the clouds, a break would occur and the sun shine through. At one time […]

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Technology Weblogging

Talkback as plugin

In my last post on WordPress, Carthik asked about my “Talkback” implementation. I hadn’t included this as part of my WordPress modifications because I’ve had the beastie since Movable Type times and didn’t think of it as a WordPress mod. However, I’ve since converted it into a WordPress plugin; you can access the text of the plugin here. […]