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Just Shelley Weblogging

On simmer

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Leave it to Dorothea to help me put the finger on my period of discontent. Today she writes: I find I have nothing in particular to blog today, at least nothing that I really care (or dare) to talk about. She then eloquently non-blogs about what she can’t or won’t blog […]

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Writing

Article at Onlamp.com

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote a little quip for O’Reilly Network’s ONLamp.com titled Today’s Unix: New all over again. The article is related to the release of my newest effort for O’Reilly, Unix Power Tools, 3rd edition.

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Just Shelley

Can’t wave a sheet around…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea, while writing about gaming characters, wrote the following today: Do not wave a character sheet around yelling “But my character’s a sweet, easy-going chap!” when he’s just instigated an unnecessary catfight with the rest of the group. That dog so won’t hunt. Your character has to take responsibility for his/her actions […]

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Just Shelley

Itty bitty living space

It’s not often that one can room with an ex-husband and manage to remain best friends. It just goes to show that though I may be firey, difficult, opinionated and hard to live with online, I’m a soft, loveable, easy going charmer offline. Well, no, not really, but it was a nice try. Anyway, the […]

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Burningbird

Change is good

If change is good, then I’m heading into truly grand times. Effective now, the domains yasd.com, dynamicearth.com, p2psmoke.org, and burningbird.net (and several others) have been merged into the primary domain of burningbird.net. I’ll be using Movable Type to manage the content for all, but instead of creating a ‘weblog’ for each domain, I’m creating one for each sub-directory: Articles, Distributed […]