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Weather

Winter storm

The winter storm didn’t miss us this time. It’s cold, down to your bones, cold. My roommate just called, and he estimated it will be another 3 or more hours on the freeway home. This is just the frozen rain, and sleet. We haven’t even had the major storm yet, with all the snow later […]

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Photography

Emptying camera

Dumping photo disc. The birthday cake my roommate got me last week. Zoe, giving me the ‘eye’. Squirrel nest and today’s first frozen rain.

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Social Media

The danger of comments at community sites

The discussion thread just mentioned in the last story is also a good demonstration of what can happen when newspapers and other localized publications open up discussion threads. In particular, the St. Louis Today site, which runs its weblogs using WordPress, doesn’t put much in the way of restrictions on comments. What’s happened is a group of […]

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Web

Amazon, Best Buy, Sears and ‘ware the Season

An update on my recent difficulty with Amazon: I received the product, but the company still showed it as ‘in process’, to be shipped in January. It took four emails and finally a phone call to get this one removed so that I wouldn’t get shipped another. On the other hand, when we opened the second season […]

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Connecting

Beautiful photos but less happy story

I also wanted to post a link to Mike Golby and his beautiful photos of South Africa. Unfortunately, these may be it for a while, as his car was stolen today. Of the event he writes: The snaps I’ve been able to catalogue over the past eight months have, frequently, felt like my documenting of the […]