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I’ve decided to move away from Google Feedburner. I’ve deactivated my FeedSmith plugin, and have submitted changes to the domain name system. I am so glad that I used the MyBrand option when I set up my feeds. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57 So my Feedburner feed which was http://feeds.planetmike.com/planetmikedotcom now refers browsers and feed readers to http://www.planetmike.com/feed/ I set up feeds.planetmike.com to point to my own web server. I added this to the .htaccess in the top lev

PasteBay, the text hosting service from The Pirate Bay is now available for general use. It is available at pastebay.org (.com and .net are registered too). Similar to pastebin.com, it allows users to share text, pieces of code and even books with each other! PasteBay, like all other projects created, maintained and hosted by folks at TPB...

Wow. It's bad enough that this 25-year-old college-drop-out-turned-tyrant Zuckerberg is about two steps away from world government -- now there is a serious drive to have OpenID established in government, with DOD and Nation socialist geeks nodding in unison at #tcamp909 that it would be great to have. Facebook taking over the world isn 't *that* bad -- world government never works, and perhaps the FB World Parliament will be so busy vampire-biting each other and looking at pictures of each o

By Steve Coll , New America Foundation The New Yorker | March 2, 2009 Two years ago, Pervez Musharraf, who was then Pakistan’s President and Army chief, summoned his most senior generals and two Foreign Ministry officials to a series of meetings at his military office in Rawalpindi. There, they reviewed the progress of a secret, sensitive negotiation with India, known to its participants as “the back channel.” For several years, special envoys from Pakistan and India had been

Everything is in transition, it would seem. I am moving back to Maryland in the next 60 days, if I can establish enough income to show a landlord that I can sustain a lease on a beat-up one-bedroom apartment. My previous high-hours project ended, and the market in my professional sub-sector appears to have dried up completely in metropolitan Washington. Everyone I know in my field is unemployed. An acquaintance called me to beg me, almost in tears for job leads this week; I had to tell her tha