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Survival guide to LAMP: Multiple weblog support in WordPress

M is for MySQL and P is for PHP For the LAMP series, I’ve decided to focus on WordPress for the nonce. I’m anxious to dig in and start playing with the tool, not to mention migrate the rest of my weblogs. I’ll return to Textpattern at a later time; or we’ll see how Joseph […]

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Weblogging

Never kick a sleeping giant

Recovered from the Wayback machine. Mark Pilgrim has also made the move to WordPress saying what the rest of us have been saying, that it’s not about the money (i.e. we’re not whining, cheap, spoiled free blogging shits). He wrote: WordPress is Free Software. Its rules will never change. In the event that the WordPress community disbands […]

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Technology

Survival guide to LAMP: Rushing forward

I have put aside all efforts in regards to my bookbinding work, and all photography, and other writing about hikes or cats or life in miniature, in order to focus on finishing the LAMP series as quickly as possible. (Other than those efforts that pay the bills, of course.) As I work on the next […]

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People

Dave speaks for me

I haven’t said anything about the beheading of Nick Berg, and I won’t other than to point out a comment thread on a posting at David Weinberger’s and state that Dave Rogers is both eloquent and thoughtful for a man who says, ‘What do I know? I make all this shit up.’ Whatever I could wish to […]

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Writing

It’s not all dark matter

I usually agree with Mark Morford but rarely have I found myself in such strong agreement with him, as I did with his column today. He writes in response to the question: how can he write about dogs or yoga or sex in cars when there is so much evil in the world. He responds with: […]