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Stuff

A binding demonstration

Steve points to this post, which provides an exceptionally well documented demonstration of creating a homemade book using fairly traditional book binding techniques. It’s probably the most photographed and meticulously detailed example of this technique I’ve seen. A single page version of the demonstration is available at the author’s journal.

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Voting

Viva la vote

The line to vote was quite long but the crowd of primarily retired folk was friendly. As I got to the check-in desk I realized I didn’t have my wallet, so home I went to grab it. When I returned I noticed a great deal of black clothing. Yes, a great deal of black clothing. The Seminary […]

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Political

Exhibiting grace during victory

McCaskill beat out Talent. It looks like Amendment 2 wins in an extremely close race. Barbara Fraser edged out long time Republican Odenwall to give control of the county council to the Democrats. Democrats have taken back the House. We also have a good shot at the Senate. And women have redefined the term homemaker. YaHHHOOOOEEEEE! […]

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XHTML/HTML

Atom XHTML patch

Created my first formal Drupal patch, providing an XHTML content type to the Atom module. Once I walked through the module, and the procedure to apply a patch, it really wasn’t all that difficult to both create the patch, and submit it for review. And the feed validates, though with a warning because of the object […]

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Political

Aftermath

Now that the election is over, I need to focus back on work but I wanted to point out a couple of ‘aftermath’ stories related to the elections here in Missouri. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Senator-elect McCaskill didn’t win this election because she won over a bunch of disaffected Republicans. In traditional Republican strongholds, […]