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Worth more than all the fairy dust in the magic kingdom

Few things could have cheered me more than this picture, drawn for me by Mike Golby’s daugher Cathryn, and the wonderful, wonderful story that accompanies it. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Cathryn. Thank you Mike. (And Cathryn — it’s not a man. Not that I don’t love some of the guys here abouts. Strictly […]

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

Hosting stuff

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had some serious Perl/CGI/MT problems earlier and couldn’t post, and you all couldn’t access the comments. Not overly thrilled with my host at this moment, to be honest. Especially when I see indications of a machine that’s overly burdened. The problem with my host is the same problem with […]

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Vote elsewhere

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My life is going to hell and unless I can find an entertaining or profound way of talking about it, I can’t really weblog about it because we’re all nothing if not entertainment and profundity. That’s all this is — smoke and mirrors. It’s about links and popularity and one […]

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Competition

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon Delacour writes about the recent fooflah with Mark Pilgrim, but also brings another topic to the table — Apple’s Safari browser. He has this to say about it, after finding out that it currently renders part of his web site incorrectly:   Rather that—just at the point where the Gecko-based browsers […]

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Technology Weblogging

Tracking the backing of backtrack on trackback

Say that three times fast… I’ve made a minor change to the Backtrack code that should allow any weblog that supports a variation of [ping)?__mode=rss to work, and that returns valid RSS. This is implemented by default with Movable Type’s trackback, including the stand alone TB server. And, this also now includes Sam Ruby’s weblog, […]