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Change, change

I’ve finished moving the rest of the webloggers off the old site to the new. It will be a tough time for a day or two until the DNS change propages for Loren, Michael, and Malcolm. I’m still waiting to hear from Frank when he’s ready to convert from Radio to Movable Type and join up – […]

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Just Shelley

The EBay Experience

Another task accomplished this week – putting together my first, and hopefully last, eBay auction. I wonder if eBay puts so much information on each page to deliberately obfuscate the fact that many of the nifty little extras come with a fee? Regardless of reason, the user interface to build an auction is a mess. Not […]

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Burningbird

No Pings I

Another side effect of the move is that trackback pings were not working on my sites, and the trackback templates were broken with the photo blogs. However, I am a highly trained technical person, with over 20 years of experience, a degree in computer science and skills beyond most mortal men. Women too. I put […]

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Just Shelley

Wanna chocolate?

Many thanks for the kind words about my birthday. My roommate took me out for an Italian dinner that would violate every aspect of an Atkins diet. We had bruschetta for an appetizer, home made garlic breadsticks with the dinner, which happened to be chicken, artichoke, sun dried tomato, and shitake mushroom sauteed in garlic […]

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A song on my 49th birthday

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I turned 49 today. Or, more precisely, I turned 49 this morning at 7:02am. I’ve reached the age where I’ve lived too long to die and leave a beautiful corpse. The the only other option open to me now is to live long enough to become a burden on society. […]