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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An issue that always seems to arise when adding an element (whether core or extension) to a feed format is whether the element appearing at the feed level applies to the entries. The reason to want it to apply is obvious--avoiding having to repeat identical data over and over in each entry. But allowing inheritance...
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A few weeks ago, I read about some Stanford professor's idea for how to ensure that the winner of the popular vote gets elected president. If a few states (only 11 would be needed if the big states signed on) agreed to give their electoral votes to the national winner of the popular vote, they...
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