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Technology Weblogging

Adapting Admin for extensibility

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Many of the earlier changes I’m making to WordPress will be behind the scenes, in the administration pages. In fact, when I finish these changes, I probably will release a copy of the product as it will then be sufficiently different enough from WordPress to have earned status as a […]

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Technology

Out, damn’d open source! out, I say!

I have had an usual number of requests for files this last week. These are files that I’ve either accidentally removed during moves between tools; or deliberately removed because I need the space for new development. Among files accidentally lost were ones for my post Stepping Stones to a Safer Blog, about how to make Movable […]

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Media Technology

Mars attacks

Version 1.0 of MarsEdit released last week , and Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise celebrated by issuing the first trailer for the upcoming remake of the ultimate sci-fi classic, “War of the Worlds”. I am not surprised that War of the Worlds is being re-made, and not terribly surprised that Spielberg is trying it. I am surprised at Tom […]

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Burningbird

It’s the oddest thing

It’s it the oddest thing how you start to write one thing, but end up writing something completely different. My last post was to be about a new facility here at Burningbird, but ended up being anything but. Anyway, before I lose this post, I wanted to point you to Planet Burningbird. This is a site […]

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Diversity Just Shelley

I am mistress of all you see

I grew up in an age when playtime was a time for our parents to get rid of us so they could do whatever they needed to do without us underfoot. Our parents seldom monitored how we played together, and even in the school yards you rarely heard, “Play nice, children!” Kids were scraped and […]