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outdoors

Outdoors

As I sit here with my laptop on my lap after 16 hours of work and writing, writing and work, I realize that I need an outdoor break. The weather is going to be warm, too warm for me, but this time of year, early morning trips are the best — birds everywhere, and the […]

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Weblogging

Let’s keep the blogroll and throw away the writing

One last note on this overworn topic: from the comments I’m reading, perhaps what we should do is keep the blogrolls, but throw away the writing. Joking! Well, kind of. Melanie McBride wrote in my comments: To be honest, the blogs I’ve read that don’t have blogrolls appear to be doing something not disimilar to traditional […]

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Technology

Productive

Aside from my earlier babble, I have also been productive today: fixing Uncle Joe’s layout so that it works in IE 6.x in Windows; working on a page sidebar modification for Molly; and finishing up the Sessum’s Portal page. The two images in the background for the portal page are Creative Commons licensed images at Flickr, hopefully reflecting […]

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Weblogging

Ms Pancake

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Lauren at Feministe recently updated her weblog template and in the process removed her blogroll. She did so in part because it was getting too long, to maintain and load. But she also did so based on the post I wrote a while back titled, Steve Levy, NZ Bear, and Dave Sifry […]

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Social Media

On muted color

I am not one to join social networks. I get LinkedIn reminders constantly, but have no interest in joining. Neither was I overly impressed with Orkut and half a dozen other ‘instacommunities’. However, flickr has been different for me, and has gone beyond being just a great place to store my photos (with built in […]