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Weblogging

Planet Powers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m aggregating all of my posts at Planet Powers, providing both an HTML interface, as well as syndication feeds. I’m using the Planet Planet software, which is relatively simple to use, though requires a technical background. I appreciate the creators making the software available and the only quibbles I have are: caching can […]

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Just Shelley

Automatic Enrollment

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In order to work on the contract for a large company earlier this year, I had to take employment with another company. This isn’t that unusual, though I typically won’t accept such conditions–I am an independent, and if there’s concern about taxes being paid, a simple filing of a 1099 […]

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Weather

Best laid plans

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Best laid plans and all that… I canceled the New Orleans trip, at least for now. I’ve been watching the weather and when the forecasts all called for temperatures with heat indexes over 100 that was it for me. It’s actually going to be cooler in St. Louis, at least […]

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People

Einstein is human

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to 3 Quarks Daily (again), a pointer to a story covering the press reaction to the release of thousands of pages of Einstein’s personal correspondence. Tongue in cheek, the article is titled, Einstein in Lust. In it the author, Joshua Roebke, writes: “Phys-sex Genius” wrote the headline wizards at the New York […]

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Technology Web

Semantic CSS

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. WordPress.com has released a new paid upgrade: custom CSS. Now those who host their weblogs with the service can pay for an upgrade and customize their weblogs. To start, the company provided a Sandbox theme layout that can be altered through the custom stylesheet. It’s interesting to read about this […]