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Archive for December, 2005

guess i’ve gotta learn welsh!

randomduck - December 31st, 2005 | Comments Off

This year’s Christmas present haul proved most interesting. Amongst the fun stuff:

Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run 30th Anniversary Edition box set
a Cuisinart Pro Classic 7-cup food processor (something I’ve wanted for quite a while)
Blazing Saddles on DVD (”Howard Johnson is right!”)
two new books on The Beatles
a copy of Harri Potter a Maen yr Athronydd [...]

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thursday thoughts: fonts, web 2.0, etc.

randomduck - December 29th, 2005 | Comments (2)

Some happy randomness for today:

It’s the season of end-of-year lists, and Typographica has chimed in with their favorite fonts of 2005. Some really cool stuff, and I even have one of ‘em (Adobe Garamond Premier Pro).
There’s a lot of buzz about “web 2.0″ - so much that it’s tough to really tell whether it’s [...]

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wal-mart bait-and-switch… yuck!

randomduck - December 29th, 2005 | Comments Off

For the third year in a row, the iPod was one of the hottest gifts for the holiday season. And this year was the first year that the music player was available for sale at Wal-Mart (after a long negotiation period where Apple actually got the evil Walton empire to bend).
However, not everybody who [...]

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quagmire

randomduck - December 29th, 2005 | Comments Off

I’ve been listening to “The Kojo Nnamdi Show” on WAMU. The first hour of today’s show featured a trio of guests discussing modern-day propaganda.
Amongst the guests was Lt. Col. Charles Krohn, retired Army Public Affairs Officer. A caller brought up the litany of propaganda used to sell the idea of the [...]

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wordpress 2.0: upgrade successful!

randomduck - December 29th, 2005 | Comments Off

The upgrade happened with minimal fuss.  I did forget to disable a plugin, but it didn’t affect the upgrade at all.
So here we are, in WordPress 2.0!
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wordpress 2.0 is out - fair warning

randomduck - December 29th, 2005 | Comments Off

After a long and (hopefully) productive development cycle, WordPress has released version 2.0 of their content management system. This blog currently runs version 1.5.2 of WordPress.
So I’m taking the plunge and upgrading my blog - the procedure for upgrading is involved, but shouldn’t be too bad. I’m hoping that my theme and plugins [...]

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