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Refer
When who came from where to see what

Textile
A humane web text generator

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For producing well-formed web text

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Strip the gunk from MSWord HTML

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Evolution of Writing
In Western Europe, anyway

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A survey of available text typefaces

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Spring · 53 days ago

And then after all that, this comes along.

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Textpattern Development Log · 77 days ago

As if there isn’t enough to do already.

Trying out this whole ‘conveying ideas sincerely’ thing (as opposed to that whole ‘flitting about all twee and snarky pretending the rest of the web doesn’t exist’ thing) is really rather a lot like the whole ‘wearing new shoes on a long walk’ thing.

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How to Get a Bloggie · 83 days ago

Completely ignore your website for weeks on end, apparently.

Gosh, so much has been going on.

• Textpattern, which is out in gamma, is helping itself to all available time. People seem to be using it, and liking it. Others are using it and wondering why it doesn’t do precisely what they want it to do; to these people I say give it time. Maybe lots of time. The tireless bughunters of the forum are my new best friends.
• I designed wine labels for the new cave. These are going to the printer this week. Much of the 2003 wine is now in casks. it is excellent; I know because I’ve tasted it and, even to my bourbon-scorched palate, it is excellent. Noël has every reason to be proud. Some guy from Belgium came through last week and ordered 25,000 bottles.
• At 37 years of age, I have gone from being the person who tucks his shirt directly into his trousers, to the person who prefers to completely undo his trousers, tuck in his shirt, then zip up again.
• The dogs are constant. The dogs never, ever lay off.
• I love Gail Armstrong more with every breath I take.

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Textpattern · 105 days ago

Public Gamma 1.10 is up. I’m going to bed.

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Refer Spamming · 106 days ago

A lot of people using Refer have noticed the increasingly frequent appearance of spurious referrers such britney-spears-breakfast-beers.blogspot.com in their referrer lists.

I’ve been seeing this junk recorded by other traffic reporting software, thus I don’t think Refer installs are being specifically targeted; nonetheless measures should be taken to silence this incredibly dim-witted ‘marketing’.

In the current version of Refer running on this site I’ve added a filtering mechanism which disallows multiple referrers to be delivered by the same visitor address, like, oh I don’t know, hmdnsgroup.com or h24-69-156-45.no.shawcable.net.

The update is still too flaky to release, and this is taking up all available time, however those running older versions of Refer can take advantage of this patch by Eric Goldberg, which filters spammers based on their user-agent headers.

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