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Using Akregator with Firefox 3.0

If you’re a linux user like I am, there’s a good chance that you’re using Firefox as your web browser and Akgregator as your news reader.  Since Firefox has no native support for Akregator, you have to set up a little script of your own to get everything working together.
First, run a text editor as [...]

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And the best shared hosting comany is…

It’s not pretty when you’re hosting company fails to deliver. It’s even less pretty when your server goes down unexpectedly. Kaushal Sheth had this problem. One day out of the blue, he (and I’m only assuming “he” here.) simply didn’t have any web sites. It’s happened to most of us. Heck, [...]

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Oh for the love of…!

It seems like every time I get a good blogging pattern going something comes up that brings it to a screeching halt.  Over the past 21 monhs we’ve had family emergencies, Moves, and of course there’s the little man of the house, who generally breaks my routine three or four times per day.All of these [...]

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Remastering the MasterPlan’s Morning After WordPress Theme

It’s not often that I come across a WordPress theme that gets me excited. Most themes out there are nothing more than souped up versions of the default WP theme. Kubrick. While I have nothing against a simple layout, the fact of the matter is that most of the sites I run require [...]

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Ugh! New teeth, new plugins and the death of a project.

Well, the 30 days project hit a wall because of two very different but equally distracting issues in my “every day life”. First, CbsoP was accepted into a blog advertising network, which is driving the numbers higher than I could have managed on my own, therefore invalidating those statistics. (It’s a good thing, just bad [...]

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