I switched my Blogger account to the beta of the new version today, republished one of my feeds, checked it to make sure it was in Atom "1.0" format (yeah!), validated it at feedvalidator.org, and to my surprise, got this warning: "Self reference doesn't match document location". I checked the feed, and sure enough, the...
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Last night, I thought I'd post a humorous entry about "Murphy's Razor", defining it along the lines of "the worst possible explanation is usually correct." But first, I decided to do a Google search to see if anyone else had combined Murphy's Law and Occam's Razor before. Sure enough, 62 results were found. I'd been...
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Yesterday, in response to an article by Marc Orchant that I read in More Space: Nine Antidotes to Complacency in Business, I overhauled my email filing structure. Most of the old structure is still there (maybe when I get a faster computer, I'll be satisfied to use search tools rather than filing to find messages,...
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As I prognosticated back in March (along with a million other precient bloggers, I'm sure), the republican party suffered a severe drubbing in the midterm elections. It looks like the candidates didn't distance themselves enough from Bush, and although I'm a lot closer to being a republican than a democrat, I think they got what...
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Today, along with a minor CaRP update, I sent out a few hints at what's coming in a major CaRP update I hope to release next month. Here are some bullet points from today's email:

I'm hoping to implement a new configuration method that doesn't require all of the CarpConf calls. A change this bi...
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While perusing the junk mail at breakfast this morning, I came across this:

Uh...the lobster's pretending to be a crab? I think I understand--he knows that crabs don't get boiled alive

Last year, I posted a few times regarding short-lived feeds and the problems caused by feed readers that continue to poll them long after they've gone quiet. The issue came up again on Tim Bray's blog 3 days ago after he posted about his experience with enabling comments on his blog.

I just discovered Sam...
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The Geckoplex is going to be moving at the end of the month. My wife and I had been planning to move north of Salt Lake City between my two favorite brothers, but then we got thinking that perhaps we should spend a few years living near her family in Nebraksa first. I'll miss the...
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One of my brothers and I are opening a new website, Free Home Shop, to the public tomorrow. A few weeks ago, while looking for good places on my other sites to link to it from, I asked another brother if we could link from his title insurance website. His response surprised me--title insuance companies...
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Every once in a while, I get an itch to do some genealogical research. The problem is, huge amounts of research have already been done for my family, and although I know where to find a lot of it (FamilySearch.org), I didn't know an easy way to download the existing information to my computer. Monday,...
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