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Critters

Time for a cat picture

Zoe always knows when I’m uptight or stressed. She will either wrap her body around my foot or jump up into my lap for some serious head butting. When I hold her close, she makes contented little grunting noises and between the fur and the noise and the love, I feel better. The Head Lemur […]

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Technology

FileZilla Gotcha

Enough with the BS, let’s talk something useful. I found this last week that Filezilla 2.2.1b (and earlier versions) will truncate files when uploading several directories at a time. I discovered this first when I found the Trackback.pm file was truncated. Then when I was trying to port the old entries into the Semantic Web […]

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Weblogging

Adding trackback entries for individual archive pages

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m firing on all (one) cylinder today. Sam Ruby references a citation at Simon Willison, who quotes Tantek:   “…we now have Trackback and Pingback to help automate generating comment hyperlinks to blog-on-blog commentary. While I certainly applaud these efforts at automating the plumbing, I must ask – why is there any distinction […]

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Diversity Weblogging

Wearing a Polite and Conciliatory Mask

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I woke this morning at 3:30 and I was determined that at least for the next four days, I was not going to make anyone angry, or hurt, or disappointed. While most of my fellow webloggers from the USA were stuffing themselves on turducken, I was, instead, going to regale my […]

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Technology Weblogging

Visual hints and clues

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. At Burningbird, I modified my Movable Type template to display a small graphic associated with the subject (category) of a posting next to its title. Those who are less interested in my technology writing can then skip postings with the associated binary graphic next to the title; those who are […]