Hab.la is a Jabber chat service designed for being embedded in blogs and other sites. On your site, it looks like a little floating palette on the screen. It works, more or less, like Facebook Chat. On my side, it integrates with Adium or iChat. I’m experimenting with it. I currently have it here on [...]
Most discussion boards these days publish feeds for each thread. But I never really took advantage of this feature until recently. I’m sort of a stickler for keeping my feeds organized, and feeds of this sort seemed to cut across the grain. But I simply created a separate folder in Google Reader called “Threads I’m [...]
Arkansas, the state where my parents relocated from Texas when I was just entering junior high, passed a ridiculous ballot provision this November, sponsored by a Little Rock-based, right-wing NPO called the Family Council Action Committee (FCAC), an offshoot of the Family Council of Arkansas (which is, in turn, an offshoot of Focus on the [...]
I caught a lucky break yesterday, the evil domain squatters who had hijacked wheatsbassbook.com forgot to renew it, and I was able to swipe it back. Here are the details:
Though I started Wheat’s BassBook back in 1997, for years it just lived at wheatdesign.com/bassbook. Relatively recently, I decided to register a domain name for it. [...]
Possible titles for this post that were considered but rejected:
“In your face, McCain”: Lacks class. Sore winners are almost as insufferable as sore losers. McCain’s consession speach was, after all, surprisingly magnanimous. And it would be unintentionally ironic to embrase the sort of partisan divisiveness that Obama himself has been preaching against, these past two [...]