BurningbirdThanks to Phil Ringnalda, I found out about Blogger’s new look and feel, including the addition of comments. I have old Blogger accounts, and first thing I did was pick one of the templates, and re-build my Blogger pages. The user interface for the tool is improved, but I don’t completely understand this obsession with rounded corners; I […]
L is for Linux When you’re writing for a large audience–you are a large audience, aren’t you?–you can’t predict what level of knowledge your readers have, so you have to pick a point to start, and then hope you won’t either overwhelm the less knowledgeable, or bore to death the experienced. With a book this […]
L is for Linux Before continuing the Survival tutorials, you’ll need some basic Unix commands. I’ve recovered the following, which provides a good intro to most of the commands you’ll need, from the now defunct weblog, Linux for Poets. Once upon a time Unix used to be for geeks only – the platform of choice […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve heard from several people interested in moving to an open source weblogging tool like WordPress or Textpattern, but they’re concerned about having to manipulate PHP code in order to modify the templates or make the changes to the tool to incorporate modifications some of us have created. What happens, then, is these […]
For someone interested in this sort of thing–I am interested in this sort of thing, aren’t I?–I never did make a statement about Google’s Gmail. Gmail is a centralized email system with virtually unlimited space to hold your messages, and with the ability to use Google’s search algorithms to research your email. Bells and whistles […]