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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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cost-benefit analysis

Thanks to the weblogging power of Windows Live Writer* and the ease with which I can now accomplish this with its integrated FTP support, I have been including hopefully-related images with some of the various posts I have written over the past few days. 

So, my question to you …

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*stabs css*

Alright.  What CSS/HTML trickery is necessary to get blockquotes to display inline with images?  Everything is floating that needs to be, everything should be float-compatible, and I cannot figure out what the problem is…  Anyone have any good guides or hints? 

Right now, the only code affecting blockquotes is:

{height:

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i do it for you

In my ongoing efforts to make reading “walls of the city” an easier and more pleasurable experience for you, my readers, I have taken it upon myself to add avatars to the RSS feeds generated by this site – they should be showing up in the top-right corner of the …

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the social bar

… at the bottom of the page.  Too much?  Too useless?  Better or worse than the social buttons at the bottom of individual posts now?  Do not care in general?  If nothing else, it reminded me I have a Flickr account… 

[Update] And so the plugin has been nuked, and …

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moving… somewhere in the world

Yesterday, “walls of the city” email was run by Dreamhost through the craptacular SquirrelMail interface.

Today, GMail runs the show.

Why? Well, to be perfectly frank, SquirrelMail sucks. Its searching system is slow as hell, its interface is laggy, its spam controls are basically non-existent, and I get tired of …

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appreciation through aggrivation

One interesting byproduct of the recent problems I have been having with my RSS feeds and Google Reader is that I realized I have 106 folks subscribed to my main feed, with another 93 subscribed to the various other forms and flavors it takes (with the majority using my …

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*prodprod* seems to work

Well, after about six hours of work (and probably a little more theme editing today), the weblog is back up and running in more-or-less its original form…  I did have to nuke it back to the stone age and completely reload it in order to cure whatever problems Google Reader …

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google reader is broken

As I write that title, I know I am going to regret it…

Anywise, for those folks out there who are keeping up with this weblog by way of Google Reader, you may have noticed that the feed for this page has not refreshed in a couple of days – …

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in case you cared

And I am not sure I do. Anywise, for those few of my readers who actually comprehend what this means (and I do not), “walls of the city” is now IPv6 compatible… I think. Supposedly this page’s new IP address is 2607:f298:1:107::6d0:ce0a. ‘Cause, you know, that will be easy …

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about time

And speaking of Oleg Volk, he now has nice, shiny, new, WordPress-powered digs at VolkStudio Blog! Please update your blogrolls and RSS feeds appropriately! …

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reciprocation

As Groundhog, ViolentIndifference, and Gator just discovered, one of the best ways – if not the best way – to secure a link in the blogroll list to the right is to link to me and then drop me a comment letting me know. I cannot say as though …

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socializing

I am invariably behind the curve, but, eventually, I do manage to catch up.

In the left toolbar, you currently should be able to find a Facebook Social Plugin, a Google Friend Connect, and a Twitter stream for this webpage, down under the “Social” category – feel free to do …

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well, crap

It would appear as though Evernote is borked, and along with it, all of my post drafts.

So, in this space, instead imagine a witty, snarky, enlightened, and poignant collection of words about something firearm-related, and you might have some idea of what would never appear here.

Sometimes, the cloud …

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in review

Once again, we are going to look at the performance and statistics of this particular webpage over the last year. Just like the last time we did this (and the time before that), I am going to use Google Analytics data, with the repeated warning that its numbers do not …

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you know how important those rulers are

Thanks to the domain hosting “The Blog Readability Test” apparently being bought out by some reverse-SEO company, you will have to look elsewhere to satiate your burning need to know how erudite your writing may or may not be, so I instead recommend this Readability Test, which will provide …

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troubleshooting

So, are the pictures I put up in my posts not showing up for anyone else in Google Reader?

I get the block of space for the image, and the little image icon in the upper left corner, but no actual picture… Anyone else? …

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