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Events of note

Local chaos

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The shootings in Kirkwood happened about five miles from us. Kirkwood borders our community. My roommate and I were both shocked to hear of the shootings last night, especially since Kirkwood is considered a healthy, somewhat affluent, long-time community. It has great schools, thriving local businesses, good homes. What would make a […]

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Political

My candidate has won

Summary:   At the end of my considerations, I couldn’t see the differences between Clinton and Obama. All I can see is the goodness in both. The hope each brings to this election. How desperately we need them, both of them. Whatever each has done in that past that I don’t like is not as important […]

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Weblogging

A note on comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I noticed increased rumblings in Planet Intertwingly against anonymous commenters. I maintain a short lease on anyone commenting who doesn’t provide a real email address or who I don’t know, primarily because I don’t know if the person is putting an innocuous comment in to bypass ‘must have approved comment’ […]

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People RDF

Accidental friendships

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I tried out one of the applications for Google’s new Social Graph API. The application looks for XFN or a FOAF file connected to your weblog to see who you connect to, and who connects to you. I don’t have XFN or a FOAF file. I did have one once, though, under my old URL, weblog.burningbird.net, so […]

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Burningbird Just Shelley

Tweaks and Flakes

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you only read the weblog in your reader, you’re missing out on the newest tweaks. A little more color, a few more excuses to use SVG. I love that SVG. SVG and ImageMagick…um…um…good. SVG, ImageMagick, and RDF–there has to be something in there waiting to be discovered. If you […]