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Have you read Robert J. Sawyer’s Wake yet? It’s one of those set-in-the-day-after-tomorrow idea-thrillers that I’m starting to wish I’d really read more of. The kind of book where blogging, open-source competitors to Google, and the infrastructure of the web are the laser beams and starships. And because it’s shamelessly Canadian you get paragraphs name-checking…
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I went and made a one-column, no-header-image, version of Twenty Ten using the Custom CSS upgrade. Madness. I (currently—you know how these things are with your personal blog, right?) plan on actually making this look like something but in the meantime, here’s the current custom CSS I’m adding to the Twenty Ten stylesheet.
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Today is the the 7th anniversary of the release of WordPress and today I’d like to say how thankful I am for it’s existence. I am. WordPress is being used around the world, every day, to enrich our lives. It’s a tool that makes anyone a publisher. Think of the revolution that followed the printing…
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I had to spend a few extra minutes in the grocery store parking lot when this came on the radio. Wait. That makes me sound really old. I was actually somewhere really cool. A loft apartment. Yes. And, uh, it was an expensive custom-made Japanese stereo. Not the radio in my reliable and safe car.…
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I’m really looking forward to reading Jim Woodring’s latest Frank comic, Weathercraft—I won’t understand it all but I’m looking forward to it nonetheless. Like Dave Fleischer, I think cartoons are most enjoyable when they depict things you could never see in real life. On the other hand, pure fantasy interests me not at all. Everything…