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The New York Times has an article today about the psychology behind those white oval bumper stickers with obscure acronyms that seem to be popping up everywhere. Here in North Carolina, the preponderance of them seem to advertise an affinity for various North and South Carolina beaches. We have OBX for the Outer Banks, TI [...]

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I’m making a change to a new hosting provider. I’ve been testing TextDrive for the past couple of days, and have found that things that were not working at all at Pair.com work just fine at TextDrive. I think a lot of the problem is that Pair.com’s software is, for the most part, old. Especially [...]

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News of security researcher Michael Lynn’s presentation on vulnerabilities in Cisco routers at the BlackHat security conference is being reported everywhere. Both Cisco and ISS (Lynn’s former employer) did everything they could to prevent the researcher from giving his presentation. In the end, Lynn quit his job at ISS so that he could go on [...]

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So I posted a question on the Movable Type community forum and thought I’d link to it here. The question is, how do you map the server root URL to the Main Index in Movable Type if you’re using dynamic publishing for that page?

If you publish a static file for the Main Index under the [...]

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Jason Levine describes how supporters of the Boy Scouts are trying to subvert the Constitution in order to maintain federal support for the group even though its discrimination based on religion makes it ineligible for such benefits. Here’s how it works:

Now you see why I find this so fascinating? It’s clear that the [...]

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Steven Johnson’s op-ed in response to Hillary Clinton’s call for a $90 million study on the effects of video games on children is a must read.

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I fixed the password problem that I mentioned yesterday. It actually turned out to require some detective work. To test my Movable Type installation on a new server, I backed up my database and loaded it on the new MySQL server, installed Movable Type, and then tried to log in. At that point, Movable Type [...]

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I’m trying to get Movable Type up and running on a different server to test out some things (like the new beta), but I am running into another problem. I dumped my SQL database to disk and then loaded it into a new database, and now I can’t seem to log into the new installation. [...]

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Let’s say you have a choice between two hosting providers. One gives you your own IP address for every domain name, on another, you share your IP address with other users. Is there any practical reason why you wouldn’t want to share that IP address?

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I’ve updated the style sheet for the site, with an assist from Anil Dash, who fixed the font and colors so that this site more closely resembles the old one.

One of the next big things on the list is updating the comments template so that what is allowed is clearly explained. Right now, basically nothing [...]

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