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Writing

A critic’s value

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sometimes I enjoy writing; other times, I hate being a writer. For those of you who think it would be just wonderful to publish a book: think again. There’s few things that can make you more vulnerable than to work your butt off on something and then have it trivialized, […]

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Stuff

A binding demonstration

Steve points to this post, which provides an exceptionally well documented demonstration of creating a homemade book using fairly traditional book binding techniques. It’s probably the most photographed and meticulously detailed example of this technique I’ve seen. A single page version of the demonstration is available at the author’s journal.

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Voting

Viva la vote

The line to vote was quite long but the crowd of primarily retired folk was friendly. As I got to the check-in desk I realized I didn’t have my wallet, so home I went to grab it. When I returned I noticed a great deal of black clothing. Yes, a great deal of black clothing. The Seminary […]

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Political

Exhibiting grace during victory

McCaskill beat out Talent. It looks like Amendment 2 wins in an extremely close race. Barbara Fraser edged out long time Republican Odenwall to give control of the county council to the Democrats. Democrats have taken back the House. We also have a good shot at the Senate. And women have redefined the term homemaker. YaHHHOOOOEEEEE! […]

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XHTML/HTML

Atom XHTML patch

Created my first formal Drupal patch, providing an XHTML content type to the Atom module. Once I walked through the module, and the procedure to apply a patch, it really wasn’t all that difficult to both create the patch, and submit it for review. And the feed validates, though with a warning because of the object […]