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“Let’s Do The Time Warp Again!”
This is a testing attempt to back-date a post, or, failing an alteration of the actual posting date, at least posting it out-of-sequence so that it appears chrono-typographically in the place where you want it (in the ordering of all … Continue reading
Posted in about hacking, administrivia
Tagged #20211207, #timewarp
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Walk The Walk
Here’s a not-fully-expected consequence — When I posted my last bit about contributing to the support of the Internet, I was contacted by the Director of the Internet Civil Engineering Institute. She asked me if I would like to volunteer to be … Continue reading
TANSTAAFI
(… as a Free Internet) Hey, the Internet is “free”. I can publish any stupid web page I like, say anything I want on my blog, or as comments on other peoples’ blogs, or … But I didn’t mean it … Continue reading
Building The Perfect Beast
Imagine you are a moderately-successful but unknown pipe organ builder in early 18th-century Leipzig, with far more ego than brains, and a mouth bigger than both. One evening, you go to a neighboring parish to listen to a recital by … Continue reading
Posted in about hacking, geeky friends
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Fighting Back
Today I am participating in “The Day We Fight Back“. Maybe all of three people will see it here. That’s fine; I didn’t do it because I thought I would drive gazillions of eyeballs to their site from mine, nor … Continue reading
Posted in about hacking, about living, politrix
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‘That Wascally Wabbit’
Well, this hasn’t turned out as well as I hoped… I mentioned that I succumbed to the temptation to follow the White Rabbit down the hole, and re-created my blog (for the third try) using a hand-rolled WordPress instance. I … Continue reading
Posted in about hacking, administrivia, backstory
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