Category: Reflections
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Does A RSS Feed Grant Right to Republish?
I received a couple of pingbacks from a site that republished a couple of posts from my site in whole, pulling them from my RSS feed. The owner of the site maintains that by having a RSS feed that has the full content of a post, I am allowing someone to republish the content. If…
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The Spirit of Halloween
Giving out candy for Halloween provides for a week’s worth of people watching compressed into a couple of hours. In our neighborhood, we’ve been given the reputation as a Trick-or-Treater’s paradise. The homes are close together, the front porches are only a couple of feet from the sidewalks, and the area is well-lit—I could count…
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NaBloPoMo: What The Hell Does That Mean?
The kick off post for the 2013 National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) including tips from WordPress.com on how to be inspired to write.
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Kickstarter is Throwing Away Your Money
When you back a project on Kickstarter, you might as well think of it as throwing your money away. With the latest chatter about Pressgram, which ink spilled elsewhere is sufficient, one simplistic summary is some folks expected one thing and the end result delivered another. I’m a Kickstarter fan. I’ve backed numerous projects (though,…
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Occupy Austin
Last night, around 11 p.m., the Austin Police Department proceeded in an enforcement action of new policies established by the City of Austin concerning usage of the public areas of City Hall. In layterms, they evicted the protest. I’m torn on this issue. The first amendment freedom of assembly is extremely important. We, as citizenry, have…
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SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor: Soft on Crime! (Satire)
With my Senatorial posts this week serving their purpose in my rant department, I’m offering to you a parody reaction to a Sesame Street skit aired on Wednesday. <satire type=”political judicial”> Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared as a guest star on an episode during the current, 42nd season of Sesame Street. I’m not a follower of…