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Sunday afternoon ramble

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was not surprised to get negative comments in my posting, Everything to do with her being a woman. I was surprised, and gratified, when a commenter going by the name of “Lord Trickster” seemed to defend what I was writing. Gratified because it can be difficult at times reading comment […]

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Diversity Weblogging

Everything to do with her being a woman

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The comments that made me so angry yesterday were attached to a posting Doc Searls wrote. It would seem that a weblogger who works for Microsoft was being parodied, and not in good, gentle fun, either. This bit of school yard bullying was further compounded by an article by Andrew Orlowski in the Guardian. He […]

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Weblogging

Gently walk the deer in my mind

Earlier today I was angry. Stomping around angry. The kind of anger that sends your cats and your kids for cover. I was angry because of comments attached to a posting at another weblog. Foolish comments. Hateful comments. Generating the type of anger that sends you out of your chair, causes you to yell at […]

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Weblogging

Blogs, bucks, ethics

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Me? Blog for bucks? There is absolutely no way that I would violate the trust of my readers by blogging for money. My readers know that I’ll always be honest with them, and would never sell out for filthy lucre. (By the way, while we’re on the subject of readers, I […]

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Weblogging

The wormhole effect

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mark recounted the posting from the referral about the letter to the Register about the Register article about the Wired article about him ranting about Google, but…but…but the cycle was too much for nature and a big wormhole opened up and sucked Mark into another dimension. Probably one without Python. (Now, […]