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outdoors

Duct tape hiking

We’ve had unseasonably warm weather this week, with temperatures expected to reach 70F today. Warm enough to drive around town on errands with the windows down (and the music up — an unfortunate hold over from my youth). I have an OsCommerce application to finish by year end for a client, so unfortunately haven’t been […]

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Weblogging

St. Louis journalist loses job because of weblog

Oh, look. A real title, just like in the papers. I’ve been out in comment threads the last few days. Sometimes you feel like a conversation, and sometimes you don’t. The last two days I felt like conversing. One conversation today was at the St. Louis Weblogger site – a writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch […]

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Government Photography Places

Tyson Valley, a Lone Elk, and the Bomb

Christmas Eve I spent in Lone Elk park, just outside of St. Louis. It’s a large animal preserve and outdoor facility with a 3.2 mile hike around the perimeter. My hiking book described the hike as ‘easy’ but the park labeled it difficult. I side with the park–though the trail was very well marked and […]

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Technology

Comment goodies

Another package I’m working on is a set of files that will add all my comment functionality to a WordPress 1.22 installation. This includes the functionality developed by others–live preview (from Chris Davis) and spellchecking (incorporated from Cold Forged) — in addition to my own modifications, such as being able to edit a saved comment. I’m also […]

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Technology

Packaged goodies

Per long overdue requests from several people, I’ve finished up a WordPress 1.22 template featuring the ‘floating clouds’ design. Additionally, I created a separate package that just provides the files necessary to do the random background image. You can see the basic floating clouds design at the development site, at http://word122.forpoets.com. I’m not linking this […]