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Critters

A helping paw

I remember when Ryan got his new kitten, Marley. From the photos he was the cutest kitten and I could tell that Ryan was wrapped around his little paw. Ryan writes today that Marley is pretty sick and needs to have specialized surgery. As with most animal care, there is no insurance to cover the cost of […]

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Copyright

On Egoboo and original art

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I think I need either a copyright weblog, or a copyright category. If I add a copyright category, what graphic would I use? A graphic of an aspirin bottle? Kevin Marks sent the link to a very interesting, though extremely footnoted document on copyright: Questioning the Economic Justification for (and thus the […]

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Burningbird

Host problems

If you tried to access my site this morning, you probably found yourself gettiing a DNS type of error. Not just me, you found this same error if you tried to access Jonathon Delacour, Allan Moult, wKenShow, Big Pink Cookie, Moxie, Scripty Goddess and a host of others. The reason was a gateway router problem at the NOC (Network Operations Center) responsible for […]

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Weblogging

Double takes

Dorothea accepts a challenge that I don’t remember making and has put her weblog into the public domain. Well, cool. Aquarionics took her up on her offer in a surprisingly short amount of time. Comments look nice in the design. Personally, I could care less what people do or don’t do with their writing, painting, photography, music, weblogs, web sites, and […]

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Technology

How not to create software

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you develop open source software, or software that you give to the public out of the kindness of your heart, document it. I know people will say, “But it’s free! How can you add more demands on the caring, giving person who wrote it?” Easily. Software that requires one […]