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Just Shelley

The Art of Books: perfect folds

The work on the star tunnel books goes slowly as I gather the material to make the volumes. Before I can even consider starting them, though, I have to master the fold. If I can’t master the fold, I won’t be able to master the concertina fold, which is nothing more than long strips of stiffer […]

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Technology Weblogging

Survival guide to LAMP: Installing the weblogging tools

L is for Linux, M is for MySQL, and P is for PHP   I used nextpage to break this writing up into manageable chunks. I know that not everyone likes nextpage, and the implementation in 1.02 is a bit problematic, but we’ll see later how we can modify WordPress to provide full page displays […]

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Critters

Zoe and Dorian Gray

Zoe is home from the vet, pretty wobbly on her feet. She had a lot of tests the last two days, and the doc found this and that, as doctors do with the middle aged. I’m a bit worried about her at the moment because she acts like she’s hungry and thirsty, but seems like […]

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Technology Weblogging

For those about to move to WordPress or Textpattern…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Six Apart released new pricing information today, and no matter how you package it, it’s not going to have people happy. Yes, there will be a free version of Movable Type 3.0. Mena Trott writes, but what she doesn’t say in the page is that free only works if you have one weblog […]

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Weblogging

Sing in Harmony

In the mornings I catch up on my weblog reading through Bloglines. I’ve developed the habit recently of reading full content feeds within the tool rather than clicking through. I feel guilty about this because I’ve been critical in the past about full content RSS feeds, and about reading entire posts in aggregators rather than […]