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My web host Dreamhost has shut off my comments because the comment spam was bringing down the server. They say no more comments until I can stop this. They recommend a CAPTCHA, but frankly, unless I’m missing something, that doesn’t solve the problem. As it is, Akismet is stopping these from actually coming through, but [...]
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My blog’s influence

My influence [16683.2] Basically, it’s a ranking scheme that uses you Google PageRank, your Technrati inlinks, and your Bloglines subscriptions to determine how “influential” you are. I am one-millionth as influential as Slashdot, for example, and about a fiftieth of Smart Mobs, where I read about it.
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Changes afoot: RSS

Most of my loyal readers are reading this through a feed. I’ve been slowly engaging in a bit of improvement of the site–something that has been on the drawing board for a year, at least. To be more accurate, I am undesigning the site. So stop by when you get the chance. More to the [...]
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Big Brother Eyes

You may notice some weirdness around here while I monkey with the blog, making it (as always) simpler. My original plan was a picture of my eyes like this (click for full size): But my design critic / spouse rejected it as “super creepy,” so I’m back to the drawing board. Turns out, she may [...]
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All the young dudes

Microsoft has a new engine that predicts the demographics for a given search query or URL. Here’s their predicted audience for my blog: So the mode visitor is an <18 year old guy? Maybe my blog is a kind of inverse picture of Dorian Gray–it remains a beautiful 17 year old, despite its debauchery, while [...]
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Call it $20K

LeapFish has a cute little widget that calculates the “actual value” of any domain name. That’s funny. I thought “actual value” was what someone was willing to pay for it. It values halavais.net at $19,154. Let’s just call it a cool $20K; after all, what’s a few hundred among peers. Or, clear title on a [...]
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My poor blog

Had dinner with Kevin and Derek, and they made fun of my “undesigning” my blog. So, I updated to the new version of WordPress, and put up this theme temporarily. If I can find a couple hours this week, I’ll try to get back to a simple, but attractive, look. I might even put a [...]
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  • Tweets

    • @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
    • Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
    • This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
    • @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
    • @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
    • @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
    • @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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