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Technology

Stuck battery in new TiBook

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have one of the first runs of the TiBook released in 2001. Yeah, I know – never buy a first anything from Apple. Anyway, it’s a wonderful computer that puts up with all sorts of abuse. However, I can’t get my battery unstuck. I can get it to the point where […]

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People

He never met an offer he could refuse

I liked him for the fact that he had no problem with telling Hollywood to stick it. I liked him for his acting, especially when he was younger. He defined “Godfather”. But he blew me away with “On the Waterfront” and “The Wild One”. And he’s finally met an offer he can’t refuse. Rest in […]

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Burningbird

Time to trim

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that I’ve had fun with CSS and stylesheets, it’s time to cut back on their number. A dynamic stylesheet is a very effective approach to styling your site, but not if you also combine this with a dynamic stylesheet selector as I do. The reason is that when each […]

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Burningbird

Setting expectations

My ISP, Hosting Matters made several changes to our accounts on the first without any prior warning. Yeah, darn them. First, they increased the amount of disk space each customer has, which means that now I’m just going to have to go out and find something to fill all that extra space–such as add back the photos I had […]