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Brain Dirty. Must Clean.
If the content on the site has been a little light as of late, it’s not without reason: Will has been teething, I caught the 24 hour Avian Flu yesterday and I’ve been holed up in meetings getting reamed out by corporate auditors (sorry, “assessors”) all day long. Posting may continue in its lightened form…
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Site News And Updates
I’ve made a few changes around here lately and thought it might be worth pointing out the (fairly subtle) modifications. First up is the Rolling Archives visible at the bottom of the main blog page, originally conceived of by Michael Heilman and then nicely WordPress plugin-ized by Zeo, meaning that it was dead easy to…
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Add Two More Sites To The Fray
I’d like you all to join me in welcoming two new bloggers and two new blogs to the Literal Barrage/Zamoose.org family. First off is Expect the Extraordinary, penned by Vinny and Ann. EtE is shaping up to be a great amateur restaurant, wine and spirits review site. Head over there to catch a few of…
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In The Interests Of Full Disclosure
I’ve never explicitly stated it on this blog, but I have a comments moderation policy in place here at Literal Barrage. [Note to self: remember to actually insert comments policy above comments form.] It hasn’t been hard and fast, but some recent comments have ended up in the moderation queue and I guess it’s about…
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Feed The Burn
I started blogging back in 2001 primarily as a hobby and have continued doing so to this day. At times, I’ve considered adding ads to the site in order to try to recoup some of the costs associated with hosting fees, domain registrations, etc., but in the end have decided against it. While I primarily…
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Testing Vanilla
There’s been a lot of buzz surrounding Vanilla lately, including Michael Heilman moving his forums over to the Vanilla platform. What is Vanilla? In short, it’s an Open Source forum framework that seeks to reenvision the forum/bulletin board concept. It has a lot of nifty AJAX effects and an extremely streamlined CSS-based design. It really…