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Open Letter to Phil Askey

Background: Don MacAskill (”CEO and Cheif Geek” of Smugmug) recently got a letter from Phil Askey (dpreview.com head honcho and cheif jerk) that said:
Just to let you know that we will be blocking linking to smugmug from our forums due to the rapid increase in your “viral marketing” technique of using “account codes” for [...]

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And just as quickly as it left…

It came back. For some reason absolutely unknown to me, my wordpress blog was unaccessible for the better part of 2 weeks. Then just yesterday I noticed that it came back online. It must have been a problem at Dreamhost. In any case I’m back up and posting from my WordPress [...]

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Test post from my new Mac

Well Beth the sweetheart that she is finally gave in and let me get a Mac Book Pro. The 17″ one to boot! What a gal. So I’m playing around with it trying to figure it out and I ran across this little widget that will let me post to wordpress without [...]

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Webdeveloper Beta v0.9.9 now available!

Okay so I’m like 3 weeks behind on this but I just found out today that Chris Pederick has relesed the Webdeveloper beta v0.9.9 to the public.  I can’t tell you how much I use the webdeveloper extension already.  There is a ton of new features but my favorite so far has to be the [...]

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Blogging from Flock…

All the cool kids have Flock these days.  Not one to let web tech pass me by (and because I’m concerned that there’ll be some as of yet unforseen problem with sites in Flock) I decided to download it and give it a shot.  It’s Firefox with extras and a slick brushed metal / glossy [...]

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Back to blogging…

So for a while last year I was blogging a bunch. I found out that I wasn’t all that interested ultimately in discussing the particular topic so I just kind of let it die. But now, I’m jumping right into the world of the home-based self-employed (although I am currently gainfully employed that [...]

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