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Photography

The wonder of it all

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Washington Post created a small but nice animated photo display, with music, showing some of the latest Hubble photos, caught with a new advanced camera system. Take one minute — just one minute — to lose yourself in wonder.

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Photography Places

Don’t breathe!

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.   Today, four cranes made their way underneath the San Franciscan Bay Bridge, necessitating closure of the bridge temporarily. The closure was to prevent the weight of the cars from lowering the bridge span, an undesirable effect considering that clearance between the cranes and the Bay Bridge is only 22 […]

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Technology Weblogging

Self-hosting continued

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Considerable discussion related to my assertion that Radio and Blogger are centralized web publication systems. First, a caveat — the use of decentralization that I made yesterday had to do with web publication without dependence on a centralized tool-specific server that you can’t, personally, control. It had nothing to do […]

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Technology Weblogging

Self-hosting of weblogs

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you’re a Radio weblogger then you’re aware of the problems that Userland is having with its static server (see this brief mention). You’re probably pretty frustrated at this time because you can’t post, and even if you could post, your weblog isn’t accessible. Those of us who have used Blogger […]

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Writing

Get this man a weblog

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As if you don’t know from previous entries, I am a huge SF Gate fan, reading it every day as well as subscribing to several email newletters. One of the main reasons why I like the publication so much is writers such as Mark Morford. If there is anyone in mainstream journalism […]