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Burningbird Just Shelley Writing

Hi, I’m Burningbird

Bright, bright yellow sunflower with honey bee making its rounds of the brown center
Single bee on sunflower

Hi, I’m Burningbird. I love to write. I have a weblog.

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

TypePad will be no more…what you can do to save your site

The writing is what’s important. Everything else is just candy sprinkles. 

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Browsers Burningbird Technology Web

Rebooting Weblogging?

screen shot of wayback machine snapshot of my earliest weblog, yasd.com
yasd.com, my very first weblog domain

I haven’t been out to scripting.com for a long time, and was surprised to find Dave is not using https. Of course, the page I tried to access (on rebooting weblogging) triggered a warning in my browser. It triggers a warning in any browser, but some are more severe than others. There were issues with […]

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Burningbird Just Shelley

The Eye Has It

Close up photo of human eye (blue)

I had planned on doing a piece on Buddy Carter’s pharma self-dealing, and a host of other writing, but personal health issues got in the way. I have a macular hole, which is a hole in the center of your eye; the part that provides fine focus. Before they could operate on the macular hole, […]

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Doctors Government Health Insurance Just Shelley Medical Medicare Political

Well now, 2024 didn’t go quite as we planned

red, green, and white fireworks explosion against black sky
Things blowed up

I was, and I was not, surprised by Trump’s re-election. I knew there were too many men who would normally vote Democrat who balk at electing a women to be Commander-in-Chief; particularly a Black/Asian woman. I knew that thanks to the rebound from COVID that prices are high—aided and abetted by corporations using COVID as […]