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Burningbird Weblogging

Moving to a new weblogging tool

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As you’ve seen, I am moving Burningbird to a new weblogging tool this week. After testing several, and after long deliberation, I decided to move to WordPress. Once that decision was made, I have been spending the last couple of days making some extensive template and code changes to WordPress 1.02 […]

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Writing

Grammar God

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today it got close to 80 degrees (it’s still 70, at 9pm at night), and this is only the beginning of April. So many plants blooming that the air is perpetually perfumed. I took the grammar test. I hate to break it to the neighborhood but… You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission […]

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Writing

Apps behaving badly

I have had a strong writer’s block this last month, which has manifested itself as writing to the weblog. As contrary as this seems, what this means is that instead of focusing on the writing I need to do to make a living, I’ve been puttering around here. Unless ya’ll decide to chip in and […]

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Writing

Unbelievable

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today it got close to 80 degrees (it’s still 70, at 9pm at night), and this is only the beginning of April. So many plants blooming that the air is perpetually perfumed. I took the grammar test. I hate to break it to the neighborhood but… You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission […]

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Books

Extreme O’Reilly

Last of the O’Reilly book review, and I’m going to cover three different brands: the traditional ‘animal’ books, the Missing Manual series, and the Head First series. The RELAX NG book from the animal series is what you’d expect for one of these books. It is a comprehensive coverage of the topic, with relevant examples, lots of text, and few […]