Random Articles

• Building My Religion.xml “Religions are the longest-lived human institutions. They are more likely to survive war, disasters, epidemics and climate change than corporations or governments.” - Phil Wolff Amen. All the religions I’ve been exposed to are “monetized” via “because of” not “with”. That is, it’s free to attend a service, but the paraphernalia cost. Throw in extra special
• End-troducing the Garrick Van Buren.com Forum UPDATE: 19 Oct 2007, I’ve pulled the forum. Maybe it’ll come back later, but right now, it didn’t fit right. WordPress’ comment threading aren’t the best place for support questions and ongoing discussion (just look at the comment thread for wp-ipodcatter). It’s too hard to see if someone has already asked your question and to see
• BitPass Bites the Dust. Just received and email from Bitpass.com saying they are no longer: Dear Valued Bitpass Merchant We want to thank you for your past business, however due to circumstances beyond our control, we are discontinuing our operations…” “On January 26, all US Bitpass Buyer accounts will be closed and we will begin the process of refunding all unspent
• Reorganizing Apophenia For those of you reading this via RSS, I’ve redesigned the site. Tweaking and torquing Scott Wallick’s VeryPlainTxt theme. I’ve also re-org’d the sections, and generally make the site more extendible, while also pulling in my writing from other sites into the sidebar. One of those sites being my account on Flickr. In the sidebar
• I’d Rather I Could Read You Here “the more time I spend w/ FriendFeed, the less I like it. I’d rather read y’all through my own blog.” If services like Friendfeed, Twitter, etc, have an innovation, it’s in present reading and publishing in the save view. This single view - often described as ‘presence’ or ’social-ness’ - makes it easy to write