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Just Shelley

The race

In my late teens I was going out with a guy who was heavily into hydroplane racing — stock outboard racing to be exact. Brian raced A stock, one of the smaller types with a maximum speed of 50-55 MPH. I became a fairly decent and respected crew member, with Brian as well as other […]

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Technology

P2P Services

The Don Box discussion about HTTP was a good read with valid points. From a P2P, not a web services perspective, we need to guarantee certain capabilities in P2P services that we take for granted in more traditional client/server environments. This includes the following:   Transaction reliability — the old two-phase commit of database technology appears again, […]

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Weblogging

Technology updates

Blogicon’s new home will be blogicon.blogrolling.com, and the new caretaker is Jason DeFillippo. Note that the move is still in process – check later today or tomorrow to see if it’s complete. When the move is finished, I’ll redirect Blogicon requests to the new home, but you’ll want to change your links. Also, I have updated […]

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Weblogging

Erotica

Chris Locke posted a powerful piece of erotica to his weblog on Sunday. As a fair warning: if explicit sexuality offends you, don’t click the link. It’s interesting, but weblog links to the Daniel Pearl decapitation video dotted Daypop 40 when it first appeared, RSS absolutely dominated Daypop and Blogdex this weekend, but post a note containing […]

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Just Shelley Travel

See you in St. Louis

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s off to pack I go. No time for sleep I’ve a schedule to keep And movers to hold if I’m slow. Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s off to photo I go. No time for sleep I’ve a schedule to keep And pictures to capture the […]