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…And on the eighth day, Al Gore created the Internet.

Haiku to go

31-Jan-10

Last year I bought the domains gottahavacuppamocha.info and gottahavacuppamocha.mobi, but haven’t done much with them. A few weeks ago, I set up another WordPress blog at the .mobi site, but one that only has the haiku.
Since starting this a few years ago, I’ve seen over 600 films and done a review haiku for each [...]

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NaNoWriMo

27-Sep-09

Last year, one of the bloggers I follow signed up for something called NaNoWriMo, which I had never heard of. NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month, and it’s a contest where participants try to write a novel during the month of November.
This is the 11th year of NaNoWriMo it gets bigger every [...]

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Film buff

11-Jul-09

A few months ago I began adding Apture links to the website. I had seen it on a few other sites and it was interesting that you could get a glimpse of a web page without having to open another tab or window. When I found out they linked to IMDB, I was sold on [...]

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Supply and demand

30-Jun-09

I don’t know about this, but it seems strange/odd. Maybe it’s the economy or something.
At work, I ordered an HP LaserJet printer from a vendor a couple of weeks ago. Shipments from this vendor usually arrive in a few days, so yesterday I sent them an email asking where they expected to ship the [...]

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WordPress 2.8 upgrade

11-Jun-09

WordPress 2.8 came out yesterday afternoon and I just finished the upgrade. For the past few versions, WordPress has become one of the most user-friendly pieces of software I’ve seen. It seems well thought out and well-constructed.
WordPress has a tool called Upgrade in the Admin panel, which allows people to easily upgrade or reinstall [...]

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Meta-blog

18-Apr-09

A few things going on today. First, I added a plugin to WP that allows me to rate films. Review Haiku are nice, but they mainly sum up the film, rather than saying if a film is good or bad. Using the plugin, I can give the films a score, which I’m basing off the [...]

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Review Haiku – #amazonfail

12-Apr-09

What’s Amazon Rank?
Protect people from ‘bad’ books
Can’t read if can’t see
Amazon Rank at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
More info in my previous post here.

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How Amazon failed authors and customers

12-Apr-09

Probably the best place to start is here, with Mark Probst’s description about how Amazon has treated LGBT books – by delisting them from sales ranks. He points out the books were lumped categorized as ‘adult’ even if they had nothing to do with erotica. Meta-writer has been collecting a list of the delisted books, [...]

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Behind the curve…as usual

04-Apr-09

Last year, mainstream media was all abuzz about Second Life (kinda like how they’re all on the Twitter bandwagon now). I looked at it a bit, but wasn’t overly impressed and didn’t join. The hype made it sound like the Metaverse in Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash,” however, Second Life’s graphics didn’t match the Metaverse as [...]

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MediaWiki and image gallery columns – mini-tutorial

16-Mar-09

I’m mainly noting this for posterity, because I couldn’t find a quick answer online and finally figured it out after a day or two.
Last year I setup a MediaWiki site for work to take the place of a site one of the resident’s had setup. The site’s overall look-and-feel has to comply with standards from [...]

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