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Social Media Weblogging

Quiet times

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My nephew’s graduation was today but I decided not to drive over to it. This last week was a long week, capped off with my roommate receiving some very difficult news last night. It will be a quiet weekend this weekend, which suits me. Perhaps I’ll get out for some […]

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Social Media Web

Guest Blog #1

Originally posted at Many-to-Many, now archived at Wayback Machine Software developers have traditionally used one phrase when testing text output in a new programming environment — “Hello, World!” We need to devise a new form of “Hello World” when testing unfamiliar weblogging software because every weblog post we write is a form of “Hello World!” […]

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Weblogging

The price you pay

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s a price you pay to be a part of this virtual neighborhood, and it’s the little bits of connectivity broken when one member or another goes silent for a time — maybe forever. When I didn’t have the money to keep this weblog going, several of you contributed to […]

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Technology

Server update

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just put in for a quote on a dedicated server, hopefully running Linux 8.0. The plan is to add the following software: Python 2.2 Tomcat – limited use since this is a CPU hog Perl 5.8 PHP 4.x Apache 2.x MySQL 4.x ImageMagick Other (TDB or requested by co-op […]

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Weblogging

Weblog standards

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m tired tonight, butĀ AnilĀ asked a fair question and I wanted to try to write a fair answer. He wrote in my comments: Shelley, just curious: (honestly, not being sarcastic) what standards body do you think would be appropriate for hosting these formats, protocols, and APIs? If I was a dreaming […]