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Just Shelley Weblogging

The Art of Books: Bookbinding and disappointment

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had a call tonight. All the person said on the line was, ‘You are nothing’, and then hung up. Odd sort of call for a crank. It came when I was in the middle of cutting more paper for another one of the books I’m making. Each of these […]

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People Political Weblogging

Not one word

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am trying not to focus too much on Iraq because frankly the situation over in that country makes me so angry that I want to break something. But it’s hard to ignore the reports about our abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the very prison we have used as a model for […]

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Burningbird Weblogging

WordPress 1.2 update

WordPress is heading into beta test on 1.2, and I’ve installed this with my Practical RDF weblog (though I don’t have the old MT entries ported yet). This release made some very good changes to the interface, including providing options that allow you to set how long a post entry field is, and what to […]

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Diversity Weblogging

It’s about women, dear

I was so very pleased about the turnout for the Women’s march last Sunday. What impressive pictures there were! All those people, united in support of a woman’s right to control her own destiny. I can’t really add much to the discussion on this March that hasn’t been ably said by Feministe, Body & Soul, and Ampersand. However, […]

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Burningbird Weblogging

Smart URLs, converting from MT to WP, and die, URL, die

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am in the midst of trying to salvage weblog entries that have gone through many variations of URL identification, as I’ve passed from tool to tool, and through many variations of what is subjective goodness in URL naming strategies. At the same time, I am also dealing with years old links […]