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tweetdeck, and how to avoid the sucky new one

So TweetDeck used to be pretty much the most-awesome PC desktop application for accessing Twitter, maintaining all kinds of inline searches, and doing all kinds of shiny things with that social media site that otherwise would have required multiple browser windows, way too many button clicks, or some other …

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2011, in review

It is that time of the year again…  Just like the previous few times down this road, I am using Google Analytics data, with another iteration of the warning that its numbers do not echo the numbers generated by other statistics engines.  However, I might as well keep with using …

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only so much time in the day

Since the recent WordPress 3.3 “Update” has broken not only its interactions with Windows Live Writer but also the Android WordPress app and the onboard WordPress Jetpack plugin, in the place of any meaningful post that I would have written in the time I wasted trying to troubleshoot and …

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a change in location, not linguistics

Eric Shelton may not be lighting up the airwaves* with his incisive deconstruction of anti-rights propaganda or his opinions on firearms and firearm accessories, but he is writing some of those thoughts down.

… And he certainly has not gotten any more reserved in this new medium, but why …

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ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Today must be the “update and tweak your weblog day”.  Per a suggestion from Erin, you, my readers, should now have the ability to edit your comments and request their deletion, should you so desire, for 15 minutes after you push the “submit” button.  This is all powered by …

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check your mailboxes

For those few of you who used the “subscribe to comments” functionality offered by this site, I have replaced the plugin responsible for that capability with the JetPack service offered by WordPress itself.  On the “good news” side, this reduces the workload for my server, moves all of your subscriptions …

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you will not occupy my site

I really thought my days of writing posts like this were at a close, what with my commenting policy being obviously published at the top of every page and underneath every single commenting form, but apparently some Occupy $Location facilitators are illiterate in addition to be irreverent, impolite, and inconsiderate.  …

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we are winning… er… growing

Recent newcomer to the ramparts here at “walls of the city” and fellow pro-rights activist, Tac (now writing under the screenname “disavowedwithhonor”) has finally decided that just commenting on other people’s sites is not enough for him, and has thus spun off onto his own weblog, appropriately named Disavowed with

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a little reciprocal-ness

I would just like to take a moment to thank: 

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should have thought of that

Inspired by Tam pointing out a link I had never noticed before, all of the images I use in the above header background are available here.

‘Course, mine are not nearly as cool as some folks’… …

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words of one syllable

Well, I probably will not confine myself to just those, but I feel like I should. 

Apparently some of my more-irregular readers are too stupid to do some looking around before they open their mouths and prove themselves to be idiots.  However, for the record, the terms of use, commenting

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bigger and better things

A little over two years ago, I noticed an individual knocking around Say Uncle‘s digs whose comments were well-thought-out, reasonable, and remarkably poignant, but whose username lacked any link to any personal weblog. Being the occasionally-generous person I am, I inquired if he was interested in guest-authoring here at …

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and i really should not have to follow-up on it

Coincidentally, my post yesterday was not specifically written in response to Breda’s situation with her picture being used without her permission, but those two posts do dovetail together perfectly, and give me one more comment to make about the concept as a whole:

To my fellow webloggers, forum residents,

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i really should not have to write this post

But here we are. 

To my fellow webloggers, forum residents, tweeters, and other internet denizens:  if you repost an image or picture that was originally found on / generated by another website, it is generally considered poor form to do so without linking back to the original post/page on …

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reiteration

I know I have said this in the past (repeatedly, in fact), but it would appear as though some folks need a refresher.  Likewise, I do not mean to steal a line from SayUncle, but it is a perfectly good line, and sums up the situation succinctly and clearly:  …

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the ‘tubes need to be rotorootered

1.  Is anyone else using Internet Explorer 9 and having serious problems when loading Blogger pages?  Lagging, crashing, and so forth are the common issues, but only with *.blogspot.com addresses, and not even all of them… 

2.  Does anyone have any experience with any read-confirmation functionalities that are compatible with …

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there are alternatives

Now that Blogger has once again demonstrated how craptacular it can be, I figure I will publicize this little offer a little more than I have in the past.

I have an unlimited storage / unlimited bandwidth account with Dreamhost, and, as you can imagine, I use an absurdly …

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apture, not aperture

I am currently testing out the Apture… functionality… on “wotc” – highlight some text, give it a second or two, and it will do an inline search for you, both here and across the cortex.  Likewise, when you scroll down, a toolbar shows up at the top of the …

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only a little behind the times

So why have I allowed my social-media-phobic tushy to be (at least partially) sucked into the black hole known as “Twitter”? Simple:

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We literally live in a world where someone unwittingly liveblogged a super-secret assassination mission as it was going down, and hours before the first glimmers of it …

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