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Archive for January, 2003

Pings at last!

Wednesday, January 29th, 2003

Thank God Almighty, pings at last! Since this blog’s inception, I haven’t been able to automatically ping blo.gs and weblogs.com. MT would say it pinged, but I wouldn’t show up on either site. I noticed that I was able to ping from another MT installation on the same server, and realized that I downloaded the [...] Read more.

Making Plain Text Useful

Wednesday, January 29th, 2003

I’ve been taking class notes on my computer (and Palm m500) for quite some time now, but I’m always left with the question of how to format them so they’re actually useful later. Plain text has formatting issues, and isn’t easily malleable. HTML looks nice, but it’s hard to write on the fly without a [...] Read more.

Recommended Reading

Thursday, January 16th, 2003

Guess it’s a "freedom" kind of day. Here are a couple more things for yous guys to read:
Now Corporations Claim The "Right To Lie" documents the increasing trend in corporations to claim the same human rights afforded to living, breathing people. I didn’t know it, but corporations have only been allowed to donate money to [...] Read more.

Why ESR is an Anarchist

Thursday, January 16th, 2003

I just read Eric S. Raymond’s Why I Am An Anarchist. Here’s a quote:
… A majority of the people themselves are too easily seduced into abandoning their own institutional protections against tyranny by the false promises and poisonous dreams of statist propaganda.
I’d like to have a little more faith in democracy than Raymond puts forward. [...] Read more.

Lonely, Lonely Blog

Sunday, January 12th, 2003

For all you MacRITters, I’ve set up a new virtual host on my old iBook. The MacRIT Forum is now housed on the same server as this blog. Read more.

Mapping the Blogsphere

Monday, January 6th, 2003

Here I go again, blogging about blogging.
Anyway, I was browsing the recently updated blogs, as I am wont to do when I am bored, and I came across Peter Lindberg’s blog. His latest post is about something new called GeoURL. Add a couple metatags to the front page of your blog (or any other site, [...] Read more.

Sticker Yer Blog

Sunday, January 5th, 2003

You might have notice the new black and white badges on the left side of the main screen. They’re so-called "blogstickers", and taste wonderful. Jen and I created the stickers you see here, but they have plenty on the site of various quality and chromatic variation. Through the wonders of PHP, you get a random [...] Read more.

Welcome to China, Here’s Your Firewall

Thursday, January 2nd, 2003

There’s a new article over at Ars Technica by Johnny Brookheart entitled Put down the mouse, capitalist pigdog! The title’s silly, but his letter is pretty well thought out. Worth the read.
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