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Notes on my struggles, hopes, successes, and ideas about the administration of eThoughts.

“Hate” might be too strong

26-Apr-07

The last few days I’ve been using the Firebug extension with Firefox in order to put together a drupal site for regardingjohn (testing and configuring here), and I have to say that I *love* Firebug, which, because it runs on top of Firefox, means that I can no longer *hate* Firefox. I’ll miss the hatred [...]

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now with audio!

07-Mar-07

Before I ventured into education and computer games I was a poet of sorts, and really liked writing and poetry readings. There was something really cool about seeing often-shy people read stuff that they weren’t sure should be read in public. There’s the whole aspect of performance anxiety (I hold that drama/performance should be a [...]

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whoa… shouldna’ fiddled

15-Jan-07

In the “Whoops!” department, I [cough] deleted some files that were in the same directory as the files I meant to delete. This caused some consternation for the afternoon, as my blog error’d out and essentially disappeared. And I spent most of the afternoon messing about with it — trying one thing after another; alternately [...]

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Slow fixing

23-Oct-06

I like the *idea* of WordPress as a blogging tool. I like having it all on my hosted space because it somehow feels more secure to me (although I’m not sure why I trust DreamHost more than Blogger). I’m still not familiar with the new-to-me system of Word Press, though, to feel comfortable with it. [...]

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The first post.

10-Oct-06

It always happens. You get a new tool, a new blog, a new website or presence, and you inevitably have to write something. Otherwise the presence isn’t yours. It’s like sticking that flag in the ground, or making some mark on it that says “I was here.”

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regardingjohn site work

09-Oct-06

My .Mac membership expires in 3 days, and rather than renew it for a third year, I’ve decided to not put up with the shoddiness of .Mac (at a premium price — not the kind of thing I expect from Apple), and instead get a much bigger, fully hosted site (for much less money). Consequently, [...]

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