I’ve been tinkering with my blog and online profiles1 – Twitter, Facebook, and the like – for years now, attempting to find balance in what gets posted where and how its shared, if at all. For a while, lifestreaming was The Future, so I experimented with it right here on my blog for about six […]
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State of the Blog
I’ve grown to despise meta discussions (blogs about blogging, podcasts about podcasting), but sometimes they can’t easily be avoided. This is one of those times. My apologies in advance. If you’re a regular visitor to my website, no – your eyes aren’t playing crazy tricks on you. The site does look completely different. I’m now […]
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An Experiment in Lifestreaming
Starting today, I’m going to try a little experiment on the front page of my blog. And you, my faithful readers, get to be the guinea pigs. Fact: I don’t get around to writing new blog posts as often as I’d like, thanks to a rather busy life. Fact: At the same time, my various […]
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My Wife the Blogger
Casey is currently participating in the National Blog Posting Month, which challenges you to write at least one blog post a day, for the entire month of November. She’s off to a great start so far! If you want to check out her work, she’s posting over at her blog, The Beautiful Letdown.
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The New and Improved berbs.us
Welcome to the new berbs.us. The migration took just a little longer than I was hoping due to some issues I had in moving all of my content over to the improved Movable Type 4 templating system. I need to note here that upgrading Movable Type 3 to Movable Type 4 is, in itself, a […]
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This Blog is on Lock-down
Not that I think many of you will care or be affected, I temporarily pulled down comments and trackbacks from this blog earlier tonight. I’m beginning the process of moving everything over from Movable Type 3.3 to the brand new Movable Type 4.01. It’s a fair amount of work, and I need a nice, well […]
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Sorry if Your Comments aren’t Up
I just sorted through this blog’s comment spam folder and found a couple of valid messages that were incorrectly flagged as spam due to some overly aggressive settings on my part. I’ve published those two comments now, but didn’t find any other legitimate ones. I apologize if your comment got deleted in this process. I’ve […]
I came across a screencast today that demos a powerful tool used by spammers to pollute message boards, wikis, blogs, and other types of online software. It’s called XRumer, and makes it easy to get through CAPTCHA tests, email confirmations, and other common techniques that supposedly prevent spammers. I’m a lot less confident in these […]
A couple of years ago, if a friend or family member wanted to start blogging, I always had one recommendation for them: use Blogspot. This Google service had a lot going for it for beginners, mainly that it it’s free and simple and easy to learn. While these are still true, I think there’s now […]
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This blog is moving to Media Temple
By the time you read this post, this blog should be completely moved over from its two year stay at Quality Host Online to our new, roomer, hosting account at Media Temple. If all goes well, you shouldn’t notice a thing. Update on 12/02/2006: Well, it wasn’t seamless, but it could have been worse. The […]