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Homeless blogs

Mike Golby ended one of his exceptional weblog postings with a rant: seems as if Blogger is misbehaving. Again. And when I clicked the permalink to copy the URL, the page below showed up. As Mike might say (just might, you know), seren-fucking-dipity. Blogspot is failing, and it seems as if Blogger isn’t much further behind. […]

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Bubble Bath Time

Take your hands off the keyboard, and back away slowly. I received this advice years ago in Boston, and it always resonates within me when someone I know makes a conscious decision to spend less time at (pick one) the computer/work/the computer at work, as Jeneane did this week when she went to a part-time work schedule: […]

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Ephemerally yours

Sometimes I read something that reaches out of the page and touches me between the eyes; the touch vibrates throughout my body as if I were a wire strung between pegs, played by someone with infinitesimally deft skill. Jeff Ward: In the winter of 1989 I started experimenting with infrared flash photography. The success I […]

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Well, that was a short good-bye

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A scant two weeks ago I bid you all a tearful farewell, and now here I am again, in your face, on your blogrolls (I hope, still), and cluttering up weblogs. com. Wait, though! Before you dismiss me as yet another weblogging addict (holding up cardboard sign saying ‘Links for […]

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So long, and thanks for all the posts

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  What a marvelous party this has been, and what wonderful people I’ve met, but it’s time, and past, for me to move on. This posting will be Burningbird’s last. I wasn’t sure how to close the weblog down. Should I just quit abruptly? Spelling out “GOOD-BYE” with no hint of […]