My blog has been creating problems for my wonderful and patient webhost, Orcsweb , for quite some time. After many different attempts to fix the problem, I came to the conclusion that the amount of traffic I get creates havoc with the memory because of xml log files being opened and closed in memory...

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Pete left a valuable comment that the hyperlinks were much too subtle in my blog posts. So I changed the link color to orange and its everywhere. It definitely stands out, though I doubt I'll get a design award for it - just clashes a bit. Feel free to suggest a different color if you want!

Just had to share this funny comment that came through my other blog. Not as a comment on a post but from the contact form. " hi dear kese hoooooo i learn C# but i can't understand what should i do please tell me "...

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Yes, you are reading this on a dasBlog site and I love dasBlog, but I spent the Christmas holiday playing with the public beta of Graffiti and I really do think they have nailed it for a lightweight CMS/blogging system. Out of the box, it is really simple to use, but don't let it's simplicity fool you...

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The DevLife blog posts for May 2005 - March 2007 are now being hosted on my personal site at www.thedatafarm.com/devlifeblog . Thanks to everyone at Ziff Davis and Ziff Davis Enterprise for rescuing the old posts and allowing me to continue hosting them....

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Ann DeMarle is the director of the Emergent Media Center at Champlain College in Vermont. She has started blogging at http://emergentmediacenter.blogspot.com and I look forward to her great insights! I was honored to be invited by Ann to participate in a Degree Advisory Council for this program....

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I spent a part of Thanksgiving day updating my blog to 2.0 (written in ASP.NET 2.0). One of the reasons was that my host ( ORCS Web ) has been having big problems with my blog app (not like I have the kind of traffic that Scott Hanselman gets on his dasblog blog), but still there's enough and it was...

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verb: to manually aggregate selected blog posts I actually used this in a sentence the other day. Egad!

My DevLife blog that has been on the DevSource blog since June 2005, has been consolidated wtih the other Ziff-Davis blogs onto Movable Type. The old blog was on an OLD version of .Text and the comnent spam had gotten way out of control. I asked if they could just update to Community Server, but it made...

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Is it obvious that I've found some other things to do with my time, like work or even play? Well, "play" is still a dream... but at least garden a little...