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This little ditty has been around the block, and still has no place to go. Except home. I wrote Agent vs. Agent on a whim, it's a commentary piece and never pretended to be anything else. I cranked the thing out one morning, one of those days after you get a crazy idea in your head just before falling asleep.
So after a little spit-and-polish, I submitted it to Evolt
for consideration. They in fact reviewed and approved the article, pending its stay in the queue. A few days later, I received a notification that all articles were being placed on hold temporarily. At about the same time, a post appeared on the Evolt site titled On the Move.
In the next few days, the evolt.org site is changing - we're moving hosts, changing CMS and redesigning. In the meantime, we're closing the site to new content while we migrate the data.
That, dear readers, was over six months ago. Now I'm not complaining, like many community sites (and I happen to think Evolt is, or was, an outstanding community) they are maintained by volunteers who have careers, and lives, and so on. Eventually, I gave up and withdrew the piece. Poor little AvsA had no home.
In the meantime, I'd written and published a piece
titled Generating Dynamic CSS with PHP
for Digital Web Magazine which turned out to be a fairly successful bit of work. The last time I checked, searching Google for the keyphrase "dynamic css php" returned a link to the article on the
first page. I still have people ask me about it, and it pops up on del.icio.us as a new bookmark every week.
So, I decided to pitch the article to DWM. I cleaned it up a little more and showed it to Krista, the Editor in Chief of the magazine. After a few weeks I received an email from her.
The piece is more appropriate to your blog, where you are free to offer your opinion as you see fit. As it is, it is not right for the magazine.
I might have been upset, if I didn't think it was so funny. To hell with it I thought, I'll publish the thing myself. And I realized my Rant page hadn't been updated in ages, and since according to Krista all I was doing was ranting anyway, what better place, no? Even better, since I'm not under any restrictions based on the thing being published elsewhere, I could add back in a few things that were edited out, and so on. So, for a third (or fourth, or fifth...) time I modified the piece to get it ready for my own site.
But hold your horses! The story isn't quite over yet. Low and behold, in the process of writing this blog post (which is at least as long as the damn article) I discovered, to my astonishment, that Evolt 3.0 is finally coming out. For about a nanosecond I thought about bringing AvsA back to Evolt, but it is already part of my Rant page and I'm not about to do anything more with it.
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This little ditty has been around the block, and still has no place to go. Except home. I wrote Agent vs. Agent on a whim, it's a commentary piece and never pretended to be anything else. I cranked the thing out one morning, one of those days after you get a crazy idea in your head just before falling asleep.
So after a little spit-and-polish, I submitted it to 
In the meantime, I'd written and published a piece
titled 