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Just Shelley

The Art of Books: The cut and what you can afford to lose

I use an Exacta knife when cutting paper or dense cloth, but this won’t work with thicker materials such as gray or book board. This board is very thick and dense for strength, and normally you would use a special paper cutter or have the art shop cut the board into pieces for you. However, […]

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Just Shelley

Here’s a thought

Tomorrow when you wake, you find that none of this is real. We don’t exist. We are nothing more than voices in your head. Specters. And you are quite mad. Have a nice day!

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Diversity

Web two, oh?

I find myself in agreement with Dave Winer and Marc Cantor about O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference, but maybe not for the same reasons. I don’t have a problem with a more traditional presentation format, but Web 2.0 sounds, frankly, closed door and elitist. It seems like Tim O’Reilly is forgetting his open source, just plain folks roots. What is it lately […]

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Diversity

I knew this one was coming

Surety be damned, the hell if I’m going to see women made the scapegoats for Abu Ghraib. We’ve gone from this incident being one of frat boy behavior (and supposedly harmless) to blaming it all on women. My first reaction is: Since when did President Bush get a sex change operation? Buck stops at the top, people. Buck stops […]

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Weblogging

A helping hand

While working on my next LAMP post, my thoughts drifted to those who are interested in using open source weblogging tools, but don’t want to play with the technology. After all, weblogging is about writing. I think it is. Isn’t it? Another alternative to learning about LAMP and managing your own software updates is to […]