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For the record… as of right now: Entries: 694 Comments: 464 life Site Summary VISITS Total 33,991 Average Per Day 333 Average Visit Length 1:06 Last Hour 16 Today 225 This Week 2,330

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My previous post was the 666th entry in my blog. Proof, Dave claims, that I am evil. Hell, I’ll admit it. 666 has been a favorite number of mine for quite some time. This is indisputable proof of my evil ways. Thanks to Dave for revealing and documenting my evil tendencies.

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I missed the last couple maintenance updates of MT, but decided it was time to upgrade from MT 2.6 to MT 2.64. As of this post, I’m running the latest and greatest version. This is the main reason I decided to install this maintenance release: “This release also plugs a number of cross-site-scripting (script injection) […]

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GeoURL is just the beginning. Mikel Maron has taken the concept of geo-blogging to the extreme with his incredible, real-time application, the World as a Blog. Leveraging a Flash-based world map — complete with light-dark indication — combined with Weblogs.com, geocoding, and RSS, the map shows a pop-up display of blog name and corresponding geographic […]

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I received a notice last night that TypePad is getting closer to launching its much-anticipated service. There’s an FAQ and a bunch of screenshots. Looks good to me. I’m excited to see the beta once available.

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Attentive readers will notice something different about my blog today: Structural URL archives. Was dat, you say? Previously, my archives defaulted to the format “/life/archives/000066.php” (I’m not going to remove these files from my server since there are many search engine and self-pointing links to these individual archives, so this style link format will continue […]

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I really like this Wired piece on Blog Space. It describes the influence of blogs in shaping the Web — its transformation from a collection of hyperlinked documents to an ever-growing representation of the minds of the people who create Web content. “Your mind becomes a part of the space as well. Your own personal […]

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One year ago today I wrote my first post in this blog, which has become an almost-daily obsession in my life, as well as a great outlet for writing, ranting, photo sharing, and heated discourse. That day marked the day I started blogging regularly. Since 05.14.2002, I decided to merge the entries from my formerly […]

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As an avid Movable Type user, I really like this quote from yesterday’s short story in the NY Times about the forthcoming TypePad hosted blogging service (written by fellow Vassar alum David Gallagher; it’s a small Web world, after all): Although the powerful features and elegant design of Movable Type have made it the tool […]

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One of the cool benefits of blogging is sharing knowledge with other bloggers. Of course, there are community blogs like LazyWeb and Metafilter, wherein the community creates the content. On the other hand, bloggers often share knowledge with their own readers and directly with one another via comments and individual posts. I’ve had two recent […]

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