habitually probing generalist

29 January is the 5th anniversary of my public blogging. I had a Bloglines private blog for about 9 days before I got fed up with its lack of capabilities. That 1st proto-blog was called In My Secret Life… via Leonard Cohen. The 1st public-facing blog debuted on 29 January 2005 at bookmark.typepad.com and was [...]

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Change of blog name I have changed the name of my blog. Again. This time it should not break any of the Internet nor should you need to change feeds; I hope. 3 years ago tomorrow I moved my blog to WordPress and renamed it Off the Mark. This was after a few years of [...]

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He’s incommunicado No comment to make He’s saying nothing at all Yeah but in the communique You know he’s gonna come clean … [Communique - Dire Straits] Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ. None of those are entirely [...]

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Not sure where this blog is going this year. I said some things last year about where I wanted to take it / thought it might go and it got nowhere near any of those places. I read through all of my posts for 2008 on the 1st and 2nd. Wow! What a year! Talk [...]

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After seeing several posts about Wordle I finally decided to play. The easiest thing for me to play with were my del.icio.us tags. Even these are not entirely representative or, I should say, not accurately representative. Based on previous (faulty) workflow, it is the case that there are hundreds of posts in Bloglines that I [...]

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I got a quick IM from a friend the other night wondering how I was doing as I have been quiet lately. Yes. Yes I have. There are a lot of reasons for this. Some of it is lack of time to do all the things I’d like to. There are probably other reasons, too, [...]

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Harris, Roy. 1998. Introduction to Integrational Linguistics. 1st ed. Kidlington, Oxford, UK: Pergamon. Harris, Roy, ed. 2002. The Language Myth in Western Culture. Richmond Surrey: Curzon. Harris, Roy. 2005. The Semantics of Science. London: Continuum. Harris, Roy, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2003. History, Science, and the Limits of Language : an Integrationist Approach. [...]

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Feel free to ignore this post. I am simply testing the new version of WP with the COinS generator plugin that I have been using. One of the main things I checked after the upgrade was whether it was working. Past posts still showed the data and the draft of last week’s readings did, too. [...]

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I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 so please let me know if you notice anything wonky going on. I need to upgrade my template probably but I do not like all the changes that were recently made to it. Thus, I’ll stick with the older version until I find time to modify all I [...]

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I have two lazy web requests. Online job applications I am in the process of filling out my first fully online job application and it is not pleasant for so many reasons. Complaining is not my point here, though. The main issues are that in several places there is not enough room to add the [...]

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