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Just Shelley

Can’t wave a sheet around…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea, while writing about gaming characters, wrote the following today: Do not wave a character sheet around yelling “But my character’s a sweet, easy-going chap!” when he’s just instigated an unnecessary catfight with the rest of the group. That dog so won’t hunt. Your character has to take responsibility for his/her actions […]

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Voting

On Voting

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Some of the political pundits are weblogging the local results of the election during the day. I won’t check for results until after the polls closed and the true results start coming in. I’m not a newspaper or a television station — people should check those for up to the minute results. […]

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Critters

Help with a wild kitten

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jeneane just posted a plea to help her find a way to capture a feral kitten that’s in her garage. She’s worried that the kitten is sick and hungry and scared, which it most likely is. If you have any ideas in how she can lure out this few week old kitten, […]

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Technology Weblogging

Comment and trackback spamming

The discussion continues on comment spamming and a couple of people have taken my initial quick fix and expanded on it nicely. Jennifer from Scripty Goddess has taken to solution into the MT tmpl files, adding the hidden field to processing.tmpl. Brad Choate came up with a fairly complex solution that, while not keeping a determined spammer out, would force the […]

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Diversity Technology Weblogging

Links at twenty paces

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Christine staged a Blog Debate, during which Ciscley commented about guys being reluctant to move to Moveable Type because it’s popular. She wrote: I think (I *know* in my personal blogging circle and I’m generalizing from there) that most of the people that are uncomfortable with the popularity of MT are guys. It’s like […]