I'm in the middle of preparing my presentation for Highland Fling and I find myself wondering if there's a logo somewhere I can use on my first slide to tell the world that my presentation does not contain any bullet points.

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I just upgraded the blog from WordPress 2.5 RC1 to the release version. Do let me know if you notice anything weird.

Dion Almaer writes on Ajaxian:

If a site groks OpenID the browser should be able to pass that over without having me intervene at all. It could hide the entire login process if we came up with a microformat to let all sides know what is going on. (OpenID and OAuth in the browser?)

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I just put Singularity on Upcoming. Express your interest in the conference by watching it or marking yourself as attending.

There's also a Singularity group on Upcoming to gather together all the various local meet-ups, venues, and events. Keep an eye on that too!

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Sure, it can withstand a nuclear war, and we've got some records, but how much of our beloved Internet is a database error away from being lost?

Reading Robin Wauter's tweet and the heart-wrenching paragraph that is all that's left of one man's four years of blogging, it made me think again how little time most of us devote to backing things up.

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