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Weblogging

My weblog has fallen down and it can’t get up!

A weblogger’s nightmare: I am looking at a weblog page with a Google box to the right and a NY Times box to the left and several buttons with coffee mugs all over them that generate OPML, RSS, and various other assorted and sundry XML flavors. Within the page there is this outline with links […]

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People Photography

Photos: Rock art and coastal guard

I went down to my favorite beach for a walk and Bill Dan, the San Francisco rock artist was there, being interviewed by a journalist (sorry, didn’t catch the publication). I whipped out my camera and grabbed some photos of him and some of his work.

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Burningbird

Back to old colors…sort of

I know that some of you liked the newer, lighter colors and these probably are more professional, but what can I say — I was born to be tacky. However, I have kept the background behind the writing white or very light to help with reading.

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Technology Weblogging

Google API and Weblogging

I just can’t see any usefulness of the Google API for weblogging. So you can use it for lookups. To lookup what? We’ve all seem how useful Google lookups are. I still get hits for add morpheus node. And this buys me…what? Weblogs aren’t “resources”. People use Google to find “resources”. Google lookups work extremely […]

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Just Shelley

The Trickster

I’ve always been fascinated with the myth of Trickster. He is cunning and sly; the wise man who acts as the fool. His very nature is contradictory because he is a bringer of both chaos and order. He is considered evil, but a necessary evil. Every culture has Trickster in it, though the actual representation […]