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Weblogging

Success

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Robert Scoble wrote yesterday: I notice a general trend looking through blogs, TechMeme, and Digg. There aren’t many coders anymore. Five years ago the discussions were far more technical and geeky. Even insiderish. When compared to the hype and news of today. It makes me pine for ye old RSS vs. […]

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Diversity

Switching to Pepsi

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. PepsiCo names Indra Nooyi as CEO. She comes with a very impressive record, and one can see why she floated to the top of this company. I guess I’ll have to do my Mentos rocket with diet Pepsi now, instead of diet Coke. Thanks to Karen Walrond for the link, as well as her own […]

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Technology Web Weblogging

Installing and customizing Planet

I recently installed Planet software in order to provide one common feed from all my different web sites. I like separating out my different interests into different web sites. However, for those who are interested in keeping up with the various writings, having to subscribe to multiple feeds can be irritating. Enter Planet Planet. Planet is […]

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Critters outdoors Photography Places

Outdoors

The weather actually cooled sufficiently to go outside on both Friday and Saturday. The humidity was high, but with the car windows down, driving was very pleasant. Now is the best time to take photos of butterflies in this area, and so I packed up the gear and headed to the Busch Nature Center on […]

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Just Shelley

Perpetual State of Fear

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I grew up with duck and cover, fear obsession culminating in that abysmal, overdone, excessively histrionic Day After miniseries years ago. I grew up afraid; made more so, nay encouraged, by my own government. My government, which feared communism more than plague, hurricane, or other phenomena if one judges the amount of energy […]