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Not finished but it is mostly stable
So I’ve got the blog script mostly tuned. There still a zillion little details I will have to correct over the coming days: Getting my old static pages, navigation to comply with the new navigation. Getting my old blog pages … Continue reading
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The New Tool
So there are a lot things that I have to change. Luckily, I’ve figured out how to correct the MT’s URLs so that each directory terminates in an index page. But I’ve decided to move all my old Greymatter pages … Continue reading
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Refurbishing this site
Okay–anyone who’s bothered to read through the all the entries here at Farlops Industries has probably noticed several nagging doubts that have been gnawing at me for the last few years. Greymatter’s progress has fallen far behind most of the … Continue reading
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Old clunky hardware
You know the hardware is old and broken when you can’t even get it install Linux. Yes, I have kernal boot floppies around but these old laptops either don’t have a floppy, the BIOS won’t support boot from CD or … Continue reading
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Time wasted on vitalism
Living things are complex machines. The mind is a process that occurs with the machine of the brain. There is no magical life substance or mind substance. There is no division between life and death, mind and mindlessness. It’s all … Continue reading
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I have decided I don't like MT
On March 13th around 5:55 in the morning, I had just finished installing MovableType. It’s actually a well written piece of software, at least by my naive technician’s eyes, but, I simply don’t like the way the URLs are implemented. … Continue reading
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Well, so long GreyMatter
It’s been fun. It’s been nearly 4 years since I installed Greymatter and then extensively changed it to meet my needs. But now that I see that the Fish was able to install version 3.1 of MovableType and we share … Continue reading
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The Bakafish Joins the 21st Century
With a small amount of help from me, Baka has been working on a layout-table-free, semantic and pure CSS facelift for his site. He had just sent his penultimate draft to me last night. I looked it over and it … Continue reading
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MSN takes the plunge into standards
As I’ve mentioned repeatedly, back in the late Nineties I was the webmaster for Microsoft’s accessibility pages. Back in those days IE for Windows was really the only game in town for CSS support but, I’d read about the WaSP, … Continue reading
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For Future Web Design Reference
My news feeds are getting out of hand. I now have more wonderful stuff to read than I have I have time. So in a effort to follow these things up later, when the Web hits a dry patch, I … Continue reading
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