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In the News

RIP Pope John Paul II

…and in tribute, my favourite photo of the Pontiff (yes, it’s real):

Vaya con Dios.

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It Happened to Me

I Hope It’s Made with Free-Range Organic Pandas…

Seen at “Super 88 Grocery” the last time I was in Boston…

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Uncategorized

Free Icons!

In addition to writing a Blogware article, I’ve also made some royalty-free icons called “Dread Pirate Roberts”, just for kicks. Feel free to grab ’em from the Blogware blog.

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More Blogware Mechanic Goodness…

Favicons are custom icons associated with

a website. In this installment of The Blogware Mechanic, we’ll look at

how to make a favicon for your blog and in the process get a better

look at Blogware’s filesystem.

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It Happened to Me

I am Rutger Hauer

While looking through my photos last night, I found this one of me from July 2000, during those heady dot-com days:

Photo: Joey deVilla, during the blonde-haired years, drinking bar shots out of a test tube. Taken July 2000.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Investors’ money on fire

off the shoulder of El Camino Real. I watched C code crash in the dark near

the Golden Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears

in rain…”

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The Blogware Mechanic

It’s not all beer and posting songs about butts on this blog — sometimes, I promote some of my work-related activities!


For those of you with Blogware-powered

blogs (there are lots of ’em, and they’re not necessarily sold under

the name “Blogware”), you might want to check out a new series of

articles I’m writing for the Blogware blog called The Blogware Mechanic.

The Blogware Mechanic

is a regularly-appearing series of articles that will show you how to

go beyond the standard features included in your Blogware-based blog,

customize it in ways you may not have thought possible and make your

blog uniquely yours.

(You didn’t think that all the accordion-related imagery on this

blog came standard, did you? I tried to sneak ’em in, but they didn’t

let me. They’ll pay for that. Ohhhhh, how they’ll pay…)

In the first installment of Blogware Mechanic, I cover the fine art of customizing the “permalink icon” that appears beside the titles of articles from the plain ol’ vanilla “page with the upper-right-hand corner turned over” icon…

…to a nice, snazzy custom icon:

…and along the way, I provide a quick overview of Blogware’s filesystem and templates.

If you’ve got a Blogware blog and are looking to spruce it up, check out the article!

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Music

Owner of a Lovely Butt

Graphic: 'Lionel Vinyl' logo.

Here’s a lovely mash-up by Lionel Vinyl for your enjoyment: Yes’ Owner of a Lonely Heart as the bed track and Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back as the vocal track — Owner of a Lovely Butt! [3.9MB MP3, enclosure]