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Copyright Weblogging

The EFF’s Blogger legal guide

As much as I’ve tweaked the issue of Creative Commons and weblogging accountability, I would be remiss if I didn’t provide a link to EFF’s Legal Guide for Bloggers. The guide provides some good overview of issues such as legal liability, copyright, and defamation. It isn’t detailed, but chances are if you need detail, you probably […]

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Stuff

Scrapes

We’re getting the worst storm of the season tonight and I went to my favorite storm watching spot to get photos. It was a magnificent cloud with lightning, which I couldn’t capture as I was just too slow. I love the wind pushed in front of the storms, though, and leaning into it as it […]

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Diversity

The playing field

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I struggled for my first breath at 7:01 in the morning on the 18th of November, 1954. My struggle for equality began at 7:02. Last week, Kos of the Daily Kos published a post supposedly in response to some people who were offended by an ad at his site. The ad […]

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Critters Environment Weather

Neighborhood

I took my camera outside this morning, and then had to wait for the condensation to dissipate before taking a photo. It’s not as hot today, but the humidity is breathtaking for only being the beginning of June. Considering that the coast has already been hit with its first tropical storm, I think we can […]

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Social Media

Oh no, don’t ping

I had, in my flurry of modifications when moving from WordPress to Wordform, left out a modification to the code that enabled pings to work, and as a consequence, had not been pinging Pingomatic the last few months. Realizing this, I fixed the problem and started pinging this week. Unfortunately, the relative quiet I’ve had […]