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Ben’s Bad Week, part 3 plus epilogue

July 28th, 2008 – 18:46

When we last left our hero, he was swimming in a sea of unresponsiveness while a hostage situation was in progress with his data…
The events in this post take place between Thursday and Monday.
Thursday
I figured out that my friends were on the East coast.   My ticket was updated at about 4:11am Pacific, simply:  “What wordpress [...]

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Ben’s Bad Week, part two

July 26th, 2008 – 22:39

This was written on Wednesday evening.
Wednesday
This part is thankfully much shorter, though it’s not sweeter [note: It didn't turn out to be very much shorter, really]. At the exact time I write this sentence (8:42 pm Wednesday) I have had an epiphany.
I noted in one of the final paragraphs of Tuesday that I [...]

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Ben’s Bad Week, part one

July 25th, 2008 – 20:56

This is part one of a two- or three-part adventure where I chronicle the misfortunes of the week. The writing is “as it happened,” or “at the end of the day,” if you will.  Either way, keep in mind that when I was writing these entries, I was expecting the magical solution to appear [...]

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We are back

July 25th, 2008 – 06:07

I’ve got new digs, and a story to tell.  I’ll start the story later on today.  I just wanted to say Woohoo, I’m back!
Pardon my dust.  Something broken?  Let me know…

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Hotlink hate

January 7th, 2008 – 20:42

Here’s a pet peeve of mine… I hate “hotlinkers.” The dictionary says a hotlink is “a link between two files, as between a spreadsheet and a document, such that a change in one effects a change in the other.” A hotlinker, by unofficial definition, is someone who uses a file that is on [...]

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Site technical difficulties?

January 3rd, 2008 – 10:50

I don’t know when this started, but I lost my archives recently.  This also meant that you couldn’t view single posts on a page, and you couldn’t read/leave comments.
I don’t know why it happened, but altering my permalink structure (and changing it back) did the trick.
If that ever happens, please let me know. 

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I Do Follow

September 18th, 2007 – 17:29

Some long time ago, Wordpress automatically gave links in the comments here a “rel=nofollow” tag. This meant that search engines would not “follow” the links in comments, meaning a site’s page ranking in said engines would not benefit from the comment. This was put in Wordpress at a time when comment spam was [...]

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