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The New Store

The New Store

Yesterday, with a bad case of insomnia, I was playing around with my Amazon Affiliates account. And while I’m sure some part of my brain was aware of this, I discovered that I could make my own store, and I did so on LitMUSE.

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Summer Updates

Summer Updates

Since it’s too hot to go outside for very long, what better place to be than behind the keyboard? OK, I can think of other places that I’d rather be, but my web sites have needed some updates for a while. I’ve made significant progress on just this site alone, but mostly I’ve just been [...]

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Tumblr: Another Extension

Tumblr: Another Extension

One of the things I like about the Web in the age of social networking is that it provides easy ways to expand my brain’s storage capacity. This idea was first suggested by Marshall McLuhan when he defined media as “an extension of ourselves.” McLuhan theorized this idea years before the personal computer hit the [...]

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New Look

New Look

Today, WooThemes — one of the best theme designers for WordPress out there, IMHO — released Anti-Social, a new theme that they say creates “more of an aggregation space for personal users / bloggers to create an overview of their online activities.” If you know me then you know I’m never satisfied with one look [...]

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MSC Humanities Upgraded

Yes, it’s finally finished. The migration from Drupal to WordPress on the MSC Humanities site is complete. Yes, the Leopard Server upgrade gave me some issues, but I think the result is worth it. Let’s just hope the next system update from Apple doesn’t break anything. It shouldn’t. I still have some work to do [...]

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New Music Site

Via Glen Phillips. Bandcamp is pretty dang kewl. It’s a music service that has music available in many forms, including Apple Lossless and FLAC, downloadable directly from the site. All tunes seem to be free of that DRM crapola, so the musicians here don’t think we’re criminals. What’s Bandcamp? From their FAQ: We’re a publishing [...]

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I’m Addicted

I seem to be, anyway. When I found Elegant Themes, I had to change the look of my photography web site. And this site with the Quadro theme. (I’m resisting the urge to move install one of these themes on HumX. No, I won’t.) Yes, for $20 a year, you too can have some pretty [...]

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