Entries from March 2009The Posts You Asked For

Ah… running a heater to counteract the air conditioner — sweet!

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So my goal of creating a simple, clean Web site with news, message boards, and a user-filled photo album is getting close.
It turned out to be more complicated than I expected to do something simple: Create a single sign-on for the site that would allow users to post comments to the news, add photos [...]

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Yet another reason (cold, Palin) not to live in Alaska.
Mount Redoubt erupted again, and officials are warning that people near Cook Inlet and the Kenai Peninsula could find themselves under a rain of “razor-sharp volcanic ash.”
Per MSNBC:
Alaskan volcanic ash is like a rock fragment with jagged edges and has been used as an industrial [...]

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Creating fully functional Web sites isn’t quite as simple as it should be.
I’m learning this as I’m working on a site for a group. The requirements are fairly simple. It should have:

Latest news and announcements on the home page
A message board
A photo/video gallery
Single sign-on (so you log into the site once and can then [...]

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Here is the description of the 2009 TV miniseries “Meteor: Path to Destruction.”
It is not, apparently, an April Fools joke.
At what point did incredulity set in for you?
When an unparalleled series of meteorites plummet to Earth, a scientist (Christopher Lloyd) and his assistant (Marla Sokoloff) race against time to provide vital information to Dr. [...]

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I wrote the other day about how bloggers help increase divisions among people by reinforcing whatever views they already have. And I’ve certainly picked on bloggers-as-journalists many times, because so many of them who think they are, aren’t.
But now it’s time to look at the other angle: Why bloggers are smacking around newspapers [...]

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One year, 12 bucks. Great deal.
And yes, I’ll be blogging again very soon.

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