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The @Otakusphere comes to Twitter

March 16, 2009

I have created a Twitter account, @Otakusphere which is an aggregate of all the blogs I link to in my sidebar and which are indexed by the Otakusphere Search Engine. The advantage of this over an RSS feed is that each link takes you to the original blog instead of viewing the post in the [...]

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The Otakusphere Search Engine

March 11, 2009

It’s somewhat ironic that after having finally settled on a blogroll length of manageable size and purpose (namely, just the blogs I read on a regular basis), my embrace of a RSS feed reader essentially rendered the idea of a blogroll moot. But as a reference of sites I recommend, it still has value. I [...]

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grumble

September 2, 2008

is it just me, or does the otakusphere seem filled with political posts these past few weeks? I am not knocking anyone’s choice of blogging subject material, but I am finding it harder to use the otakusphere as my release valve for the bitter and divided one-sidedness of the poli-sphere (left and right alike). I [...]

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engineering a debate

August 25, 2008

Steven was previously mulling about a change in his comments policy, and today just pulled a post because it (apparently) triggered some rather heated debate. I’ve noticed that Steven in particular tends to attract a lot of this sort of comment abuse – perhaps a better term for it is “signal saturation” because unlike spam [...]

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happy birthday, Shamus

August 24, 2008

the old geezer is 37 years old today. Luckily I am not so decrepit as that – I was in kindergarten when he was a big scary 3rd grader. You gotta respect the heroism of that greatest generation.

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apologies

June 2, 2008

I was out of town this weekend, to celebrate my daughter’s first birthday in Chicago with my parents, so I figured that I’d throw a fun post up on the blog for you all to enjoy. Unfortunately, Akismet seems to have decided to stage a coup in my absence and tried to eat everyone’s comments, [...]

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and boy, are my arms tired!

May 18, 2008

was out of town this weekend. My inbox is a nightmare – over 500 messages not including spam. I am seriously considering nuking it. Step 1 towards email independence is simply knowing when to cut your losses. If you sent me an email, please comment below so i know what to prioritize. not to be [...]

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The Tao of Scientism

April 10, 2008

Daniel Dare is one of those web personalities you come across who you might initially think is a crank, but after integrating over time you see that they have a subtle depth. He’s largely hostile to belief and subscribes to the Dawkins ultra-rationalist condescension of spiritualism. I haven’t asked him directly but I suspect he [...]

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Condolences

April 7, 2008

Astro has suffered a loss. He will be fine, but that sort of thing always cuts deep.

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close the barn doors

March 16, 2008

I thought I was done with this, but it seems that WordPress v2.3.3 did not fix the injection spam loophole; I was just hit by another injection spam attack on my previous post (now cleaned up). I’ve closed user registration on the blog for now, though of course you needn’t register to comment thanks to [...]

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