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Weblogging

The Giveaway

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I find it humorous that after the Blogger meeting with Bill Gates–where he walked into a room of bloggers, all of whom were using Apple laptops–Microsoft works with Acer to send out Windows laptops to webloggers. As Jeneane notes, primarily male webloggers (and I’ve not seen anything among the ASP.NET webloggers about […]

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People

Passing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I can’t say that I’m a fan of either Gerald Ford or James Brown, but in the end I don’t think either gentleman got the credit they deserve for their contributions in life. Gerald Ford will go down in history as the man who pardoned Nixon, but oddly enough I […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Where’s the harm

I was asked in comments associated with the post on Judge Dierker, what’s the harm in someone saying something offensive. Read the original story in the Riverfront Times about the woman and the case that forms the basis for the first chapter in Judge Dierker’s book. Then tell me: do you see harm?

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Political

Surprise

Oh. What a surprise. John Edwards is running for President. And he’s grabbing the Kids of the Kluetrain for all our good internet-driven fund raising. Wow. Couldn’t have seen that one coming.

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Critters

Jurassic Shrimp, Beaked Squid, Hairy Crabs

While most of us were agog about the recent filming of the giant squid, in Australia on Monday comes announcements of many marine discoveries in the last year. Among them are shrimp similar to ones extinct 50 million years ago, a new beaked squid, and giant lobsters. I already mentioned my favorite, the Yeti crab. It’s unfortunate that […]