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Diversity

Girl-ick-ism

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Halley has two new posts on girlism, related to the release of Charlie’s Angels 2 and Legally Blonde 2, and both are wide of the mark. In the first she writes: In both movies, the younger women call on a network of their girlfriends to save the day. In both movies […]

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Books

Cut the wires

I’ve spent too much time in technology recently, but after the work on the server today, I can take a break. Not too long a break because I have promised essays, for poets and other mad, bad, sad people. Loren started a review of Catch 22, and I wonder whether to add my own thoughts […]

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Weblogging

Your edit does not make my edit

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to commiserate with Mark Pilgrim. It must feel that he’s being bombarded right about now because of recent edit watch activities. I feel sympathy for Mark, but I still don’t agree with blindly tracking other people’s edits. Not for punitive reasons. However, having said this, I see no harm […]

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Weblogging

Emailing a weblogger

There are few things more irritating then to always get your spam email, but to not get other email you’re expecting; you don’t know if there’s something wrong with your email system, the other person’s email system, or they’re just too busy to respond. My email program put an email from one person I had […]

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Web

One of those days?

Have you ever had one of those days? One of those days when you’re faced with trying to get a whole bunch of moving parts working together such as on a web server, and there’s a hundred million possible combinations of Things you Can Do, but only one works? And have you had one of […]