BurningbirdWhen I worked at the Women’s Center at Yakima Valley Community College back in the late 70’s, I interviewed the head instructor of our mechanical engineering program about women participating in his program. I remember him saying that he welcomed women into the program, as long as they were serious about studying in the field. […]
I am about to set off on a journey, an adventure through time and space. I’m about to enter… The car registration zone Since this is an even year, and my car is an even year car (though it was released for sale in an odd year) to renew my registration, I must have a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine, where you can see this all working. When I was overcome with an urge to run through the woods, howling at the moon, like a banshee or some kind of wolf woman (albeit one with extremely short hair), I knew it was time to relegate my little HTML retro to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Phil pointed to a weblog entry that mentions adding an HTML element just for marking untrusted content in a page. With this, Google would then know not to use any links within that section for page ranking. The concept behind this new addition is that without getting the page rank boosts, the bad mans would give […]
I remember once being critical of TypeKey because (as I said at the time) centralized services don’t scale. Those who didn’t agree pointed out the excellence of both Google and Technorati to demonstrate how well centralization works. This week, as I noticed comment spam in a TypeKey controlled blog, I thought back on that argument […]