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FYI — I’ve taken advantage of the fact that I’m rebuilding this weblog from the ground up in moving webhosts to change the way some things operate behind the scenes. The biggest change is the way in which my archive URLs are built. As a result, old inbound links are broken. There was no easy…

Just a heads up — I’m changing web hosts this weekend. If all goes well, DNS should propogate by Monday of next week and you won’t notice a thing. (Actually, that’s not entirely true: you should notice zippier performance on comments, trackbacks, etc.) — but the content should all be the same. Many, many thanks…

I’m watching the stream on MSNBC right now, and it’s an historic moment. SEIU and AFSCME have officially endorsed Howard Dean for President. Governor Dean asked, “Don’t black and purple and green look great together?” (The respective colors of IUPAT, SEIU and AFSCME.) Yeah, they sure do. This is a big, big day for the…

I’ve been a Verio customer for seven years. I pay $25/month for 200 megs of disk space and 7.5 gigs of bandwidth. It includes CGI hosting, but nothing else — no PHP, no mySQL, etc. I have a total of 10 POP mailboxes on the domain, star aliasing for mail forwarding, and 20 unique e-mail…

Annette Messina shows us that David Letterman knows the answer.

For those that don’t know, that cutie on stage with Governor Dean from Saturday was Aldon Hynes’ daughter Fiona. Aldon’s wife wrote a terrific recap of what being on stage meant to her. Aldon’s commitment to the campaign and his ability to get others involved is an inspiration. Do yourself a favor and read his…

Challenges Expected to Grow for Dean Rivals Read the whole article from yesterday’s L.A. Times, but the concluding quote is just too much: A top advisor to one of his rivals said that given the financial and organizational resources flowing to Dean, “The truth is you are looking at a situation where if Dean wins…

Aziz over at the Dean blog wants to get Dean to buy an ad in the Super Bowl. He shrewdly notes that the Super Bowl is just four weeks before Super Tuesday. Hmmm….

Here’s a great article in the Naperville Sun (Naperville is a town of about 130,000) about our efforts to shuttle volunteers to Iowa: Local Dean supporters begin road trips to Iowa By Katie FoutzSTAFF WRITER Naperville resident Rick Klau will pack his bags with glossy brochures bearing Howard Dean’s name and head west to Des…

After a couple heavy days of Bloomba use, here’s some feedback: The spam filter is quite good. No false positives yet. Bloomba doesn’t actually do the spam filtering, the proxy server (SA Proxy) that’s bundled with Bloomba does. And there’s a nice integration point between the two: if you get a message in your inbox…