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Ego crush
Now I can watch people ignore my blog in real time.
February 11, 2006 - 12 words, 1 comment

Pinewood Derby tip blog
My new blog on building winning pinewood derby cars.
January 3, 2006 - 104 words, 2 comments

Comment stats
Some random stats about URLs in my comments.
February 2, 2005 - 48 words, 14 comments

PHP developer wanted
I’m looking for a PHP developer. Inquire within.
September 23, 2004 - 366 words

Blogsnob Preview
A preview of the next release of Blogsnob.
September 1, 2004 - 101 words, 8 comments

Fresh paint
I started refactoring the site and ended up with a new design.
July 8, 2004 - 457 words, 14 comments

Ebig tonight
I’ll be speaking tonight at the meeting of the East Bay IT Group.
May 4, 2004 - 42 words,

Online Publishing Discussion List
I-Blog is changing. The discussion list has a new name and a new focus.
March 26, 2004 - 126 words, 3 comments

I-Blog
I’ve joined the staff of MarketingWonk as the new moderator of I-Blog, an email discussion list focused on the use of weblogs in business and marketing.
January 13, 2004 - 179 words, 1 comment

New project and identities
I’ve started a new project that has me musing about my professional identity.
January 1, 2004 - 631 words, 6 comments

California Government CSS Design
As far as I know, CalGrants.org is the first California state government site that is designed with entirely CSS layout techniques.
November 21, 2003 - 182 words, 3 comments

Popcorn deadline
The last day for popcorn orders is approaching.
October 17, 2003 - 64 words,

BlogSnob
I’ve acquired BlogSnob, an advertising service for Weblogs.
October 15, 2003 - 244 words, 10 comments

Throwing out the baby
The comment spam has gotten so bad that I’ve taken to deleting any short, generic...
September 8, 2003 - 140 words,

RSS resource
If you want to learn how RSS can help you or keep track of new RSS tools and services head over to Lockergnome’s RSS Resource.
August 9, 2003 - 124 words, 2 comments

Retainer offer
It has occurred to me that I’ve never actually asked for business from my readers. So as something of an experiment, I’m going to make an offer that is exclusively open to you, my weblog readers.
June 24, 2003 - 220 words, 4 comments

Domain registration time
It’s time to renew the registration for kalsey.com and I’m evaluating my options and soliciting suggestions from the peanut gallery.
June 19, 2003 - 50 words, 16 comments

Not Radio
To the person who’s trying a variety of URLs to find mySubscriptions.opml on my server: this blog isn’t made with Radio Userland. So you won’t find it.
June 16, 2003 - 55 words, 9 comments

...Cut once
The origin of this blog’s title is the old carpenter’s adage, "measure twice, cut once." The adage admonishes builders to plan carefully. Measure each board before you cut it, since once it’s been cut, you can’t undo the cut.
June 15, 2003 - 113 words, 1 comment

Ironed
A triple issue from the Under the Iron series includes interviews with Mark Pilgrim, Anil Dash, and me.
June 9, 2003 - 209 words, 1 comment

Comment spam
Perhaps the fact that I have a comments form available on almost every entry on...
April 5, 2003 - 79 words, 2 comments

Lost mail
If you emailed in the last day or so and I haven’t responded, please resend...
March 7, 2003 - 61 words,

WaMu pounding
A Washington Mutual computer has been denied access to this site.
February 4, 2003 - 41 words,

Jury Duty
I’m on jury duty next week, so I’m looking for WiFi near the courthouse.
January 17, 2003 - 114 words, 3 comments

Full Post RSS Feed
This weblog’s RSS feed is now available as full posts.
December 24, 2002 - 25 words,

Simplelinks
Simplelinks is a collection of interesting spaces on the Web. Short, to the point, without commentary.
November 25, 2002 - 62 words, 3 comments

Comments feed
An RSS feed that contains the comments on items in this weblog. Keep up to date on the comments without repeatedly checking the site.
September 17, 2002 - 93 words, 8 comments

Google woes
Why won’t Google provide a more complete description?
September 1, 2002 - 69 words, 1 comment

Moving Day
This site is moving to a new host, so you may experience some funkiness for...
August 21, 2002 - 20 words,

Blo.gs ping
For those that care, we now ping blo.gs.
August 6, 2002 - 47 words, 2 comments

MTAmazon Now at Source Forge
MTAmazon is now a project on Source Forge. This way, others can participate in the...
July 28, 2002 - 37 words,

Testers wanted for Amazon MT Plugin
I’ve got a new Movable Type plugin ready that uses Amazon’s XML interface to insert...
July 11, 2002 - 48 words,

RSS down
The RSS feed for this site is down right now. There’s something screwy going on...
July 2, 2002 - 41 words,

Why are you here?
Acts of Volition is celebrating their 500th post. I like AOV because Steven and friends...
May 8, 2002 - 89 words, 5 comments

Kalsey Consulting Group
As you’ve no doubt noticed, things have changed around here and now you know what...
April 29, 2002 - 73 words,

Too busy
I’ve been too busy to update this site over the last week or so. There’s...
April 14, 2002 - 52 words,

Comment
I’m catching up on some old reading, so some of toady’s links have been around...
March 16, 2002 - 18 words,

Spring fever
I’ve been absent for the last few days, but I assure you that I’ll be...
February 28, 2002 - 60 words, 1 comment

Find anything?
Looking through the stats for kalsey.com, I find that someone requested 4 pages with WebTrends...
February 20, 2002 - 35 words, 3 comments

Site Refactoring
The process of creating a structure for this site is a real-world case study for...
February 17, 2002 - 774 words, 4 comments

Great Host
Need IIS hosting? Try Endore.
January 26, 2002 - 49 words, 5 comments

One Year
On the one-year anniversary of this weblog, reflect upon what I’ve learned.
January 23, 2002 - 184 words,

Layout Problems
Users of some browsers might have trouble viewing this site.
January 20, 2002 - 86 words,

Number 300!
This marks a milestone for this weblog. This is the 300th entry I have made...
January 16, 2002 - 34 words,

Hiatus
Ugh. I’ve been on a little bit of an unintended hiatus of late. First I...
December 14, 2001 - 60 words,

Cable Modem Wonderland
I’ve been offline for a few days. AT&T has dropped cable modem service due to...
December 3, 2001 - 141 words,

More Strangeness
Another interesting thing is the wacky search terms that people used to find my site...
November 26, 2001 - 54 words,

Odd Referers
I’ve been getting some weird refering sites recently. I don’t get why the International Atomic...
November 26, 2001 - 60 words, 1 comment

New Server
The server has been moved. It’s going to take a day or two for various...
November 18, 2001 - 64 words,

Moving
I’m moving the server that hosts kalsey.com. I probably won’t post any new entries here...
November 17, 2001 - 26 words,

New RSS feed
This blog now has an RSS newsfeed. If you use a news aggregator like Radio...
November 10, 2001 - 136 words,

Pumpkin patterns
Are you looking for the list of Jack O' Lantern patterns? The main page of...
October 31, 2001 - 37 words

Wayback titles
I need some better titles for my Internet Archive bookmarklets. The names I have aren’t...
October 26, 2001 - 26 words,

Archived rot
I’ve updated my link rot page to include a link to the offending page at...
October 25, 2001 - 42 words,

Comment changes
I made some changes to the comments system. The only one that is visible to...
October 16, 2001 - 49 words

Comments!
I’ve just installed a comments system. Now my readers (yes, both of you) can interact...
October 15, 2001 - 32 words,