This is splorp.

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October 22, 2002

Validation station.

I run several weblogs besides this one. Most of them are powered by Blogger Pro, which has this option to publish an RSS feed along side the normal HTML version of the weblog. I figured I should check those feeds using the spiffy new RSS validator built by Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby. Of course, … More

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October 21, 2002

Ploughing through the hardware aisle.

The available domain name of the week is boltdozer.com

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October 21, 2002

A pocketful of curious things.

Look at what I found rattling around on the web today. To begin, Mr Zeldman has started redesigning using pure CSS. Begone ye vile nested table dwelling creatures. You have jury duty? Godspeed Jeffrey. And please keep an eye on the sandwiches. I’ve heard tales. Next we find that something seems to be buzzing in … More

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October 21, 2002

Photo of the day.

 Snow melting on metal grate. 7th Street Southwest, Calgary.

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October 19, 2002

We’re back on the air.

Gosh, that was almost painless. The server move went flawlessly, at least for the machine which hosts this site, and everything seems to be running the way it should. The Cobalt Qube that handles the Newted Community duties is still chugging through a disk status check, but should be online again this afternoon. While I … More

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October 18, 2002

The beagle has landed.

Well, not a beagle exactly. More like a Whippet. In fact, just like a Whippet. A three quarter size version of a greyhound. A type of dog that was apparently bred by crossing a hybrid of a fox-terrier and a full-sized greyhound with one of those fit-in-your-glovebox style Italian greyhounds. Interesting, no? At any rate, … More

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October 18, 2002

A spanner in the works.

Just when everything seems to be running smoothly, you may as well change it around. Back in July, I moved the splorp.com and newted.org servers (and all of the web sites accommodated therein) to Webcore Labs while my ADSL connection changed from Cadvision to Nucleus. Well friends, it’s been three glorious months since my Nucleus … More

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October 17, 2002

Photo of the day.

 Late afternoon sun on Government House. 7th Street Southwest, Calgary.

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October 17, 2002

Just put it out of your mind.

The available domain name of the week is rejectable.com

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October 15, 2002

Look! Look! See Veer. See Veer run.

See Veer post two (count ’em two) honest-to-goodness, never before seen press releases the same darn day. Even the peripherally cognisant will notice right off the bat that one of the releases is basically an announcement of the launch of our company six months after the fact. That’s a commonplace practice in this industry, isn’t … More

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