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Writing

Mockingbird’s Wish

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The news spread first as a whisper and then as a shout: First Mother was granting to each creature one wish. One wish, only, but whatever was asked, would be granted. Mockingbird heard the news from Hawk who head the news from Sparrow who heard the news from Robin and […]

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Diversity People

I have a dream

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to […]

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Technology

YAM—Yet Another Modification

One more modification. Since I do make updates to a weblog posting — to add new information, make corrections, whatever — I made these easier to spot. First, I’m now highlighting the change, putting a box around it with a different color of background. In addition, I pulled my old MT tag-based recent entry list […]

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Technology Weblogging

Burningbird’s threadneedle strategy

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to provide the details of my overall Threadneedle strategy to fill in some of the gaps in the material I’ve supplied to this point for comments, Trackback, and Backtrack. I also want to provide instructions on how to incorporate some of this into non-Movable Type environments. My goal […]

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Programming Languages Technology Weblogging

Trackback technologies

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Trackback stuff. First, to re-cap, this page covers how to add trackback to your individual pages, and to force page re-builds when a new trackback ping arrives for the specific page. I put the code for the Recent Trackbacks and Backtrack into text files that you can download and use in your MT weblog. It’s worked […]