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Perpetual Beta Sues 37Signals

by Mike on 4/1/2007

in Best of Release, Copycat Law, First We Kill All the Lawyers, Good for a Laugh, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me!, Perpetual Beta : Release, Webloggia

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 company. “I’ve ben [...]

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Blogrolling: Illinois Trial Practice Weblog

by Mike on 3/28/2007

in Blogrolling

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, courtroom demeanor, [...]

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Link Whoring: Sticks of Fire

by Mike on 12/22/2006

in Blogrolling, The Ever-Expanding Greater Tampa Area, Webloggia

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 [...]

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The Photojunkie One Million Giveaway Extravaganza

by Mike on 11/20/2006

in Video Games are Good for You, Webloggia

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!

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Seven Years and Still in Beta: 7th Blog Day

by Mike on 11/19/2006

in Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Me!, Webloggia

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 world waited with [...]

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Comments Fixed

by Mike on 10/3/2006

in Webloggia

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 WordPress blog [...]

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Stealing from Jeff: XHTML vs. HTML

by Mike on 9/28/2006

in The Intarweb, Webloggia

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 [...]

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Square One

by Mike on 5/9/2006

in CSS: Completely Screwed Stylesheets, The Intarweb, Webloggia

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 going [...]

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Like Paint Chips for the Stupid

by Mike on 4/14/2006

in Mob Rule, Never Underestimate the Power of Human Stupidity, Webloggia

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 single post [...]

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