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Kudos for Weblogger

Dave points to a review of Weblogger, my hosting service, in PC Magazine. Big, big shout out to Erin and his team for keeping this site up and running and happy since I cut over from my free site at Userland late last year.
In commemoration of the moment, I’m adding the button I should have [...]

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Here we go again

More than twelve hours after my last post, I’m back in SeaTac. As Esta alluded earlier, our plane taxied away from the gate, only to pause before getting to the runway, turn around, and start heading back, to the pilot’s somewhat apologetic explanation, “We got a light on the hydraulics, folks, and we just [...]

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Don’t forget to be Fair and Balanced

It’s Fair and Balanced Day, as I mentioned yesterday. The best outcome for today would be if we could bump Fox News to the second or third result for Fair and Balanced in Google. Just remember: If Fox News can call themselves “Fair and Balanced,” so can anyone!

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Julie Powell and Tin Man: blackout survivors

Julie: Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a Blackout. “With a flashlight wedged under my chin and candles everywhere, I sautéed rice in butter—would have used some onions there but I had none, or if I did they were lost in the dark refrigerator…”
Tin Man: “ I stood on the Hudson River promenade. [...]

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Blaster Roundup

Official and unofficial pages about fixing the infection. Note that Windows 95, 98, and ME machines are NOT affected by the worm.

Official page of Blaster info on the Microsoft.com security site. Contains really good step by step instructions on how to clean your system and prevent re-infection.
Scoble posts an abbreviated list of instructions courtesy [...]

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On the road again

A few quick notes as I begin my brief vacation:

I normally fly Delta, or United when absolutely necessary. But if I had not flown American today I would never have known that there’s an enormous Robert Rauschenberg piece hanging in Terminal C at SeaTac.
You know you’re in Seattle when the line at the Terminal [...]