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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 […]

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Weblogging

Worth more than all the fairy dust in the magic kingdom

Few things could have cheered me more than this picture, drawn for me by Mike Golby’s daugher Cathryn, and the wonderful, wonderful story that accompanies it. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Cathryn. Thank you Mike. (And Cathryn — it’s not a man. Not that I don’t love some of the guys here abouts. Strictly […]

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Copyright Legal, Laws, and Regs

Freedom to innovate

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. UpdateOf course, I realize that I’m probably a-l-l-l-l-l-l-l alone in the viewpoint I’m expressing in this post. Which is a true measure of freedom to speak — when you can speak amidst your peers and not get stoned. (Damn, did I just get hit by a falling link?) And no, […]

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Critters

Kraken

Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep, The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee Above his shadowy sides: above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumber’d […]