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test post, ignore

will this go out on the feed, despite that the web site is refusing admission? hmmm?

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links for 2007-07-30: RSS mix

RSS Mix – Mix any number of RSS feeds into one unique new feed! I was wondering just the other day if this could be done easily. Now I’m wondering why I was wondering… (tags: rss aggregator webdev)

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Browser share: encouraging signs

It may be anomalous (let’s face it, any traffic at all using Netscape 2.x is pretty damn anomalous in this century) but lookit: Explorer share down to a combined 37%! Firefox up to 47%! Excellent!

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links for 2006-12-20: natural nuclear reactors, ball lightning, cash crop, ISS, behavioural separation

Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors – Fact Sheet (tags: nuclear reactors waste Africa geology) Texas State professor probes ball lightning phenomenon (tags: ball_lightning AtD Dahlia_Rideout) All-time high for homegrown as pot becomes top cash crop in US | Special reports | … more…

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links for 2006-12-15: name your server

Geek to Live: How to assign a domain name to your home web server – Lifehacker (tags: howto DNS server domain)

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links for 2006-12-04: AJAX

AJAX:Getting Started – MDC In a nutshell, it is the use of the nonstandard XMLHttpRequest() object to communicate with server-side scripts. (tags: AJAX Tutorial) UPDATE: okay, well, that kind of worked. It turns out I’d only bookmarked one link in … more…

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New Feature (possibly)

A couple of hours from now, there may possibly be an automatic post from my del.icio.us account, if I’ve set it up right. I’m not sure what that post will look like: in an ideal world, it will be the … more…

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WP Plugin: Kottke Style Archives

Alistair Lattimore‘s gone and written a plugin that generates an archive list in the style that Jason Kottke uses at Kottke.org — which is tantalisingly close to the style that I’ve been using here. My archive panel is hard coded, … more…

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feeds on the wing

I’ve just moved the feed(s) for this blog over to Feedburner, with the idea that I will discover whether anyone is reading this blog in that peculiar manner. The new addresses are: http://feeds.feedburner.com/nexistepas/ThXM for posts and http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForEnthusiasm for comments. Right … more…

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YouTube embed code does not validate

I’ve just run the front page of the blog through the W3C validator, and discovered that although my own code is cool, the page won’t validate as long as there’s a YouTube embedded movie on here, because “embed” is not, … more…

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