Starting a blog posting – or any communication — with the word “I,” is a great way to distract your audience from your message, and to get them to focus on you… if you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky, starting your message with the word “I“ (or better yet, the words “I think” or “I find“) will [...]
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Rest in peace, Michael Jackson. Your global influence was far and wide.
(This video wins several awards, including “Best Use of Philippine Prison Man-Hours” and “Best Use of Those Standard-Issue Bright Orange Jumpsuits”)
6/27/09 UPDATE: The above item was featured on CNN today — http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/27/michael.jackson.prisoners.thriller/index.html — which only goes to show, the difference between a blogger [...]
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I had a dream recently that my blog updated itself.
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This blog started a year yesterday. Since that time, the earth has returned to roughly the same position relative to the sun, but everything else is completely different… at least for me. During this time, my blog has matured, yea verily, like a fine single malt scotch in an oak sherry cask, soaking in random [...]
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One of the things lacking most in blogging software is the ability to easily add footnotes. By “easily,” I mean something that involves using a simple tag, and that features, at the very least, an auto-numbering function. Even wikis have some established conventions for footnotes and there probably are innumerable proposed XML standards out there, [...]
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There are two kinds of bloggers in the world: Those who would write the statement “there are two kinds of bloggers” and those who would Google the phrase first, to see just how many people have already used that phrase.
“There are two kinds of bloggers“ ~1920 results
“There are two kinds of blogs” ~3650 results
(Need an [...]
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time for an inventory check.
as of this moment:
60 posts and 1600 views in 3.8 months
(and 24 unpublished drafted/notes)
that comes to about 16 posts and 421 views per month, which is much higher than i expected (especially on the posting side) for a scrapbook of random thoughts.
using WordPress (or similar services) causes one’s blog to be instantly crawled by [...]
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