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Weblogging

Wordless

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. *GASP* The Bird you can’t shut up to save your life, Ms. Jibber Jabber herself, can’t find a bloody thing to say today. I’m wordless. Fall photo for you instead. Onwards. Update: Thanks to Mr. Delacour for his excellent advice on the photo and cropping.  

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Connecting

Good-bye Rick

Rick, I didn’t know you except through Chris, and I deeply regret that now I’ll never have a chance to know you, because you’re gone. You were only 39 years old. My deepest sympathies to Rick Gleason’s family and friends for your incredible loss. Someday I swear, we’ll find a way to stop these senseless deaths. […]

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Technology

The Slinky style of project management

It seems that the bookshelves are inundated with books about building successful systems. “Build a successful business in 2 weeks or less”, or “How to go on the Web in 30 days”. To me, the real key to building successful systems, Web-based or not, is to understand the underlying causes of what makes a system […]

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Weblogging

It’s the “Baby in the Office” bug

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea writes: It’s not leaving. Somebody make it go away! I’m trapped in an office with a baby! Help! ¡Socorro! M’aidez!  

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RDF

Good RSS

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby created an RSS Validator for us to use to validate our RSS feeds, and Bill Kearney was kind enough to host it. Many appreciations, folks. I ran the Validator against my RSS feeds (both Userland RSS and RDF/RSS feeds) per Mark’s request and as I expected my Userland RSS feed didn’t work, being […]