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Technology Weblogging

Blogger gets comments

Thanks to Phil Ringnalda, I found out about Blogger’s new look and feel, including the addition of comments. I have old Blogger accounts, and first thing I did was pick one of the templates, and re-build my Blogger pages. The user interface for the tool is improved, but I don’t completely understand this obsession with rounded corners; I […]

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Just Shelley

The Art of Books: The cut and what you can afford to lose

I use an Exacta knife when cutting paper or dense cloth, but this won’t work with thicker materials such as gray or book board. This board is very thick and dense for strength, and normally you would use a special paper cutter or have the art shop cut the board into pieces for you. However, […]

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Just Shelley

Here’s a thought

Tomorrow when you wake, you find that none of this is real. We don’t exist. We are nothing more than voices in your head. Specters. And you are quite mad. Have a nice day!

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Diversity

Web two, oh?

I find myself in agreement with Dave Winer and Marc Cantor about O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference, but maybe not for the same reasons. I don’t have a problem with a more traditional presentation format, but Web 2.0 sounds, frankly, closed door and elitist. It seems like Tim O’Reilly is forgetting his open source, just plain folks roots. What is it lately […]

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Diversity

I knew this one was coming

Surety be damned, the hell if I’m going to see women made the scapegoats for Abu Ghraib. We’ve gone from this incident being one of frat boy behavior (and supposedly harmless) to blaming it all on women. My first reaction is: Since when did President Bush get a sex change operation? Buck stops at the top, people. Buck stops […]