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Weblogging

Spin City

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s not surprising that yesterday’s unhappiness at the new pricing structure for Movable Type 3.0 has generated response from those in support of the structure, Six Apart, or both. But I am disappointed, no let’s be honest, angry at the deliberate misinterpretation and obfuscation put on our responses. In the […]

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Just Shelley

The Art of Books: perfect folds

The work on the star tunnel books goes slowly as I gather the material to make the volumes. Before I can even consider starting them, though, I have to master the fold. If I can’t master the fold, I won’t be able to master the concertina fold, which is nothing more than long strips of stiffer […]

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Technology Weblogging

Survival guide to LAMP: Installing the weblogging tools

L is for Linux, M is for MySQL, and P is for PHP   I used nextpage to break this writing up into manageable chunks. I know that not everyone likes nextpage, and the implementation in 1.02 is a bit problematic, but we’ll see later how we can modify WordPress to provide full page displays […]

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Critters

Zoe and Dorian Gray

Zoe is home from the vet, pretty wobbly on her feet. She had a lot of tests the last two days, and the doc found this and that, as doctors do with the middle aged. I’m a bit worried about her at the moment because she acts like she’s hungry and thirsty, but seems like […]

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Technology Weblogging

For those about to move to WordPress or Textpattern…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Six Apart released new pricing information today, and no matter how you package it, it’s not going to have people happy. Yes, there will be a free version of Movable Type 3.0. Mena Trott writes, but what she doesn’t say in the page is that free only works if you have one weblog […]