Et cetera
Literally “the rest of it”. There’s a little more of my own words and opinions in these.
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Lovely new bad legislation just made it through committee that requires… “…the firm that sells you Internet access would be required to track all of your Internet activity and save it for 18 months, along with your name, the address where you live, your bank account numbers, your credit card numbers, and IP addresses you’ve…
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Lawrence Lessig retweeted this today: #OCv3 lets you email all your members of #Congress & include campaign donation data: bit.ly/nTAV8i The good parts (with commentary) from the Press Release: …โwrite a letter to all three of your members of the U.S. Congress, all from one webpage, send it immediately over email, and then track &…
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A quick recap of the last few months of work: A forray into project management and continuity for a couple of Drupal-powered sites. This was the bulk of July and August. Many great lessons and skills developed. Google documents is a great tool for project communication and that there’s a big difference between sharing documents…
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The open source community could stand to ease up on the stories of evil litigation and IP issues and write/digg/blog about the success and business being done with open source.
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I’ve moved away a few content management systems, and SEO was one reason. I’ve found a nice niche market for building smaller sites for companies using the WordPress engine, and one of its strong points (along with ease of management) is that it’s very search-engine friendly- with some customization. Anymore my WP sites all include…
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Finally – “Microsoft backs down” as Wired puts it. My own opinion – I’ll believe it when I see it. My skeptical money is that what M$ will end up calling compliance will be something different from actual compliance as developers need to actually utilize cross-browser standardization. As I’ve gotten more freelance and development work…
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So I’ve been looking at WP calendaring plugins and widgets. Spent an embarrassingly long time, sent some email that’s now embarrassing too, because the best way to go is a code snippet offered by google in the Gcal settings. Doh. So – the sidebar is one example (text is a little small and uninformative, and…