I haven’t been in much of a mood for cooking lately, usually making do with soup, eggs or rice and vegetables, and cottage cheese and fruit. Inspired by Joe’s recent writing, though, I decided that the roommate and I needed a really decent meal tonight. At the store, sirloin steak and sour cream were on sale, […]
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Just don’t call me Honey
Contrary to rumor no, I did not get married recently and/or change my last name to Harrison. Besides, I wouldn’t change my last name if I were to get married — and didn’t change it when I was married. I was born Shelley Powers (well, Michelle Powers) and that’s how I’ll go to my ashes. However, Tim Bray […]
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Google and bad banning
I dislike banning. I dislike blacklists based on proxy, domain, IP address, and keyword. No matter how sophisticated the applications that support blacklisting and no matter how good intentioned the sites doing the banning, someone innocent always gets hurt. My favorite banning story so far is from Jonas Luster’s weblog where he talks about showing some law […]
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Any other updates
I caught up with the reviews of the book at Amazon. Ouch. There was some blame attached to the tech editors on the book, and that’s not fair–they weren’t responsible. These are typographical errors, which are the responsibility of me and the final editing process; or errors in style of writing, and there’s really only […]
In the last two weeks, two WordPress weblog sites have had their sites suspended or moved to interim servers because of performance issues. In both cases, the ISPs who hosted the sites (different companies) sent snapshots of the MySQL processes that caused the problems with the emails. I worked with one of the sites offline, […]