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A good friend of mine has started blogging about politics. His site? Keep 1600. Only a few posts are up now, but it looks like the bug has bitten him hard.

So how come I never met this guy? He lives in Florida, is an FSU fan, a Mac user, and a Halo player. I’m sure we’d get along famously.
My Orlando friends have some ’splainin to do.

OK, I admit I’m back-dating this. November 19 came and went and I didn’t even notice. So why bother to go back and add something now? Because, eight years after my very first weblog post (hello, awful pseudo-futuristic “interface”!) the very notion of a “blogiversary” has ceased to [...]

RIAA Keep your Hands Off My iPod by (_nickd)

By the way, the site that led me to the previous post is a pretty good read if you’ve got a law degree and a strong sense of sticking it to The Man. Recording Industry vs The People chronicles all the [...]

I’ll let Matt say it:
I recently realized there are a lot of people trying to make a living from blogging but there aren’t a lot of sites with basic business advice for people doing it. I figured maybe it’d help some people out if I wrote up how to find a good accountant or [...]

Christine wants to be number one again.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Florida lawyer Michael Alex Wasylik announced that he has filed suit today in U.S. District Court in Tampa against Chicago-based web application firm 37Signals. The suit alleges trademark infringement of the Perpetual Beta name and seeks damages in the amount of 13 signals - just over one-third of the [...]

As part of the Perpetual Beta Blogrolling Project, I’m pleased to announce that today’s featured blog is the Illinois Trial Practice Weblog, run by blawger and alleged Illinois trial attorney Evan Schaffer.
ITP is primarily useful for those who find themselves in a My Cousin Vinny-like situation in downstate Illinois: rules of evidence, [...]

From the “mailbag” that is my comments feed:
Hey there!
My website includes a link to yours within my list of Tampa Blogs:
http://sticksoffire.com/about/tampa/blogs-more/
Would you be so kind as to return the favor?
You can cut & paste, if you like:
Sticks of Fire: a Tampa website
Thanks for your consideration.
tommy
Sorry to post this request in your comments but i could [...]

Rannie is coming up on one million visitors and to celebrate, he’s giving away unspecified free stuff.
No word on whether he’s including the Nintendo Wii he got. After all, his sister got one too, so he can play hers.
UPDATE: Put me in for Gears of War. Oh, yeah!

On this date in 1999, a weblog was born. At the time, there were somewhere around 300 people writing weblogs. One year later, it was 60,000. Now, there are something like ten million.
That was seven years ago. To put that in perspective, just a few weeks after I began blogging, the [...]

I just realized this evening that comments have been out of commission since my last upgrade. It turns out that the current verion of Wordpress filters comments for a referrer that matches the BlogUrl variable set in General options. A stray “www” will cause a mismatch and eat all comments; therefore, if your [...]

For the time being I’m only stealing links from Jeff.
He helpfully points out some recent work showing that most so-called “valid XHTML” really is no such thing.
These sources have more on why:

Surfin’ Safari
Anne Van Kesteren
Mark Pilgrim
Ian Hickson

One big reason: there’s no good way to serve XHTML to all browsers with a valid [...]

I didn’t take part in the CSS Reboot but I was inspired by it.
A couple of weeks of fumbling, and I’m still at nothing. So I’ve decided to start over with a new theme as a base - complete with trendy chunky footer - and then give it a new skin.
I’m probably [...]

This one’s all in the metadata. A few days ago, Oliver Willis posted an immigration-related item on his blog entitled They Just Hate Hispanics, Admit It. Oliver put the entry under the categories “Immigration” and “Racism.”
Who are these mysterious racists Oliver calls “they”? Oliver doesn’t specifically say, but he links to a [...]

Server stats show that this post is the first Google result for “garbage disposal maintenance”.
For folks looking for advice that is neither tongue-in-cheek nor specific to a certain house in Virginia that I no longer own, try checking out the following:

eHow - How to Use a Garbage Disposal

eHow - How to Fix a Jammed Garbage [...]

The other day I suggested to Dineen that she have a professional web site apart from whatever her firm puts up. Smacking my forehead, I realized that I should do that as well.
So I did.
After the site was largely finished, I did a quick check on MSIE 5 on Dineen’s PC. [...]

If you’re not at SxSW but wish you were, here’s two ways to check out the action:

Keynote and Panel podcasts
Flickr photos tagged with sxsw06

Psst… Mike… that’s another reason podcasts are cool.

Krempasky’s not impressed at SxSW:

Back at SXSW, sitting through a panel on podcasting - when, why, how. It’s relatively interesting - but frankly - I’ve not heard anything that distinguishes advice about podcasting from advice about broadcasting events in traditional fashion. Why does everyone seem to think that podcasting really is the GREATEST THING EVER? [...]

I’ve upgraded Release to Wordpress 2.01 today. I expect few, if any, issues, but feel free to send feedback if anything breaks.
The new theme was a whim with the upgrade. I expect to change it before long.