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People Weblogging

Connecting

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was surprised at the amount of in-person connectivity that occurs as a result of meeting people through the Internet. In comments attached to a previous posting, Community, Sharon mentions meeting her significant other online and Medley talks about meeting her husband through their mutual weblogs. Kath states: Something about meeting through the mind first rather […]

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Technology

UDDI and Discovery

Questions: How do you compare UDDI to other methods of discovering networked resources (may or may not be web services) What’s the difference a global UDDI registry and… – Google: controlled by a single organization – dmoz.org: open, and replicated by other search engines – DNS: governed by ICANN, but organizations can apply to be […]

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Technology

Blogger Pro—important

–CRITICAL—- Blogger Pro users — if you have posted today, it’s imperative that you check your weblog page, particularly if you use the Blogger template tag to identify weblog posting author. Per Ev: There was a major glitch in publishing this evening. If you published and your name doesn’t look right, publish again.

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Connecting

On being a parent

In a quiet moment of sharing, Jonathon Delacour wrote: Though I don’t believe in regrets, I have just one: that I don’t have a child. All my closest friends have children and every time they invite me to their homes, I feel a sense of gratitude that I’ve been able to share the intimacies of family life. […]

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Critters

Just another morning

It starts with an Argentinian ant invasion. While I was waiting for the exterminator this morning, I received a phone call from another weblogger. Lovely voice. Witty conversation. Wonderful surprise. Just as I’m hanging up the phone, the exterminator came and after I showed her where the little buggers were entering my home, I took off […]