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obamasresume.org — still relevant?

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on 6/11/2008
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Back in March I announced a new project, obamasresume.org. The point of the project was to demonstrate that Obama’s experience was significant, relevant, and impressive. There were a lot of assertions that Clinton was far more experienced than Obama, and I wanted to help set the record straight a little.

The site didn’t get fleshed out nearly as much as I thought it would, both because I had anticipated having more time to contribute to the wiki, and because I thought I would get far more user contributions. (Strangely, more than half of the people who registered for an account made no changes to the wiki.)

Now that Obama is the Democratic nominee, the primary purpose of the site is no longer there. I don’t think many people comparing Obama to McCain will be worried about Obama’s level of experience, and if they are considering McCain in the first place, then Obama’s reformist resume will probably turn them off anyway. (oh wait, McCain used to stand for campaign finance reform… I guess that’s over with).

Anyway, I’m tempted to just take it down. I don’t have time to contribute to it, and no one else seems to either. It’s the first hit on Google for “Obama’s Resume”, which is a good and bad thing. Good because, in theory it is being found very quickly by exactly the people who would be looking for it, bad because there isn’t much useful info on there.

What do you, dear reader, think I should do with the site? Leave it? Hype it more? Take it down?

Anyone want to take it over?

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switched to wordpress

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John
on 11/15/2004
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I’ve switched my blog software from blosxom to wordpress. Everything is much happier now.

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simplelink

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on 4/15/2004
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I have created a blosxom pluggin, simplelink(ShareThis

more tests

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http://example.com/~user

http://example-hyphen.com

http://example.com/endofsentence
.

sadsfasdf: http://johnjosephba
chir.org/simplelink.

http://example

http://example.com

http://example.com.

http://example.com!

http://example.com?

http://example.c
om/thing.pl?&name=john+joseph+bachir

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testing new pluggin

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testing to see if it doesn’t do anything with a file with custom links

http://johnjosephbachir.org

john

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new permanent link structure

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John
on 4/14/2004
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i’ve made permanent links render only the story in question, without surroundin
g context. I think this is in general slicker and more useful, and also solves
the problem of files with the same name.

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i give up.

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John
on 4/14/2004
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There will be no comments for my anxious, loyal readers tonight. Another time,
another place.

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writeback

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i just installed writeback (which enables comments). let’s try it out…

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blosxom is awesome

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I have long been looking for a good blog/journal system. My criteria were that
it should be open source, hostable on my machine without needing to author thro
ugh a service (like Blogger), not use a database, have either a simple or a wid
ely accepted and standard file format, and have a category system that won’t ma
ke me sweat about choosing just the right category for my post.

I have found it: blosxom[http://www.blosxom.co
m]. Its category system is really great. Entries are kept as flat files, an
d categories are denoted by the path of directories in which the entries reside
. Not only is this simple and intuitive, but it allows for unbelievably easy ca
tegory restructuring at any time.

For example if I put several posts in the “cat” category, but then I wanted to
write a post in the “dog” category, and i wanted them both to be under the “ani
mal” category, I could just make a directory called “animal”, drag the cat dire
ctory into it, and make a new directory in it called “dog”.

Blosxom always scans the whole hierarchy, and shows posts by date, regardless o
f category. So all my posts will remain in the same order, but have a different
category structure.

Other nifty features:
-the system is one perl file
-a “flavour” (themes) architecture. Flavours can be developed by users and dist
ributed modularly.
-a plug-in architecture, for extending the functionality of the core system. Th
ese too can be distributed modularly, usually as one file. The installation pro
cess consists of dropping the plug-in into the plug-in directory. http://bla
pp.sf.net].

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