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It’s always fun to check in with my colleagues in the Suspicious Cheese Lords, the male a cappella ensemble (specializing in Renaissance music) of which I was a member. I just received a postcard advertising Gaudete, their second annual Christmas concert, at the Franciscan Monastery in Washington DC this Saturday at 7:30 pm. If [...]

In addition to the Scripting News Christmas Party, I’ll also be at the Berkman Center’s Internet & Society conference next week. This year’s theme is “Online Politics: Is the Web Just for Liberals?,” and should be just the thing to get me out of political blogging. With any luck there will be some startup type [...]

At a time when everyone is going to their corporate holiday party (unless you work for a company that’s too fiscally responsible to have one), we poor unemployed bloggers have to shift for ourselves. So I was delighted to see Dave’s message about the Scripting News Christmas Party next Saturday at the Hong Kong in [...]

house of warwick: Manila: Five Years Old. Steve points to Dave’s post on the fifth anniversary of Manila, the content management system cum blogging system that runs this site, as well as the blogs of more than a few Net luminaries. Unfortunately, it remains the Rodney Dangerfield of blogging platforms. I still have to explain [...]

Anil Dash: What’s in your search box?. At present, mine says “mission of burma” “peking spring”, because it’s the first of a new month and I was on eMusic burning up my 40 monthly tracks, and then filling in all the missing metadata (like cover art and year).

RSS in Government: Blog — Dictionary Word of the Year. Merriam Webster reports that, once you strip out profanity and perennial words like “effect/affect”, blog was the most-searched word this year on Dictionary.com. You can tell it’s a no-news week when I found reference to this fact on three sites I read daily. (I’m pointing [...]

In other Virginia Football related news, I just realized (thanks to the College of Arts and Sciences alumni newsletter) that I am, as they say, one degree removed from the oracles who decide the Bowl Championship Series rankings. Wes Colley, UVA Physics 1993, runs the Colley Matrix, a simple iterative calculation that starts with a [...]

Looks like the Fresno Bee’s reporting wasn’t quite on the money. The Cavaliers will not be returning to the Independence Bowl; instead, Virginia accepted an invitation to the MPC Computers Bowl against a yet-to-be-named opponent.
As Regret the Error would say, “we crunked.”