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Writing

Sensualist

  The world that lieth in wickedness, the sensualist, has no taste nor relish for that bread which cometh down from God out of heaven, and nourisheth the soul up unto eternal life. Thomas Lechtworth, They that wait upon the Lord Roget’s Thesaurus defines a sensualist as a person devoted to pleasure and luxury, a […]

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Just Shelley

Moving to the beat

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I spent the morning pulling boxes and furniture down from piles and placing the items into the storage unit’s hallways. I opened several boxes and pulled out some favorite books I didn’t want to lose – Gravitation, The God Particle, Vision, Botticelli’s Dante, which I picked up at the show in London, and my […]

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Burningbird Technology Web

Server status

I have hit a roadblock in the server setup, specifically wildcard DNS entries (to allow things such as weblog.burningbird.net, coop.burningbird.net, and so on), as well as sendmail issues and external email. Everything else seems to be set but that sendmail is a showstopper. My hope is to get help from my readership, but barring that, […]

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RDF Writing

Reverse Spin

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just sent my last edit of the proofs to Simon for the Practical RDF book, which means I’m finished with the writing. Put a fork into me my babies and call me done! Well, I still have to set up the book support site when it publishes, but the next time […]

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Weblogging Writing

Throwing the torch on

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I didn’t quite finish the proofs tonight – shame on me – but should have them to Simon tomorrow morning. I can only do so many pages a day before I start crawling the walls. I also finished the nameserver for the Wayward Weblogger co-op and if the test domain […]