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Eight Years and Counting

June 11th, 2008  |  by Derek  |  published in Miscellany

Eight years ago today I turned on the blog portion of this site. The changes have been many, from platforms (Blogger-GreyMatter-MovableType-Wordpress) to look (various styles borrowed from people actually competent at design) and content. I’ve tried to narrow the focus, but turns out my interests keep changing. So it goes. Thanks for coming along for [...]

Speaking of Winners

April 8th, 2008  |  by Derek  |  published in Miscellany

Some Alterations

January 7th, 2008  |  by Derek  |  published in Miscellany

Observant readers, who now surely number in the low double-digits, may notice some tinkering here lately. I’ve moved this domain to a new host, Webfaction, and am setting things up so I can run Django at root along with this WordPress-powered blog alongside. In the near-term, that means some redirects, including the RSS feed (which [...]

Seven Years of The Scoop

June 13th, 2007  |  by Derek  |  published in Miscellany

Permit your sometimes less than humble host a minor celebration: on Monday this site celebrated 7 years of publishing. Sure, the first post (using Blogger) wasn’t much to crow about, but things hopefully have improved a bit since then. Technically, thescoop.org has been around since 1998, but June 11, 2000, is when I started using [...]

New DOCS Features and Background

November 15th, 2006  |  by Derek  |  published in Miscellany

Today, with some help, I added more RSS feeds to the DOCS, including feeds for individual topics, sources and bylines. Thanks to several colleagues and friends who made helpful suggestions for the site; keep ‘em coming. And big thank-you to Adrian Holovaty, who provided lots of advice and troubleshooting assistance (it’s nice to have Django’s [...]

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