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Technology

Excited about tech

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am not going to get into the “excited about technology” frame of mind. Every time this happens, I get disappointed because I’m left feeling that what I’m saying isn’t connecting. Or exciting people. Or working. Or worthwhile. Or interesting. And I love getting into debates and exchanges about new […]

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Technology Weblogging

Techie discussion about Radio

Warning: Technical discussion about a new Radio implementation feature ahead — those with other interests may want to wait on next post. This will probably add to the buzz pushing this item to the Daypop 40, but such is life: Userland released a new aggregator architecture that allows the introduction of new drivers for unknown XML formats such as RSS 1.0. […]

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Diversity Technology

Geek out of work

Nothing like being an out of work geek in a technology recession. The only thing worse, is being an out of work geek in a recession who also happens to be a woman. Gender bias — that strikes me as a hell of a good topic right about now. On March 8th, Jonathon posted the following comment: […]

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Technology Weblogging

Closing this generation of techblog

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I closed TechBlog down and I’m keeping it closed. My technology is as much a part of me as every other aspect of my life — I’m not going to arbitrarily split it off. When I want to “TechTalk”, I’ll say what I want here, in Burningbird. I have to […]

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Technology

Golden Gateway

Julian started a Usenet thread at comp.distributed (viewable at Google) about the Golden Gateway — how do you find the first node in a P2P network? Without any reliance on any centralized service? Viewing the responses, there is an assumption that entry points have to be known at some point — through a friend or a server or some other […]