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Man, nothing messes up a perfectly good blog page like incorporating tables and CSS designed for an altogether different blog engine.I find myself relying on a third party extension for Joomla quite a bit. As a result, I'm gonna toss one of them some unso...
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The black theme and layout are going to be around for awhile. I think they strike a decent balance between legibility and presentation of the material.Joomla continues to confound me with amazingly stupid things that they've done on top of an otherwise ve...
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As yet, we have not found a way to move old articles over en masse. The only way to preserve the date, formatting, links, images, authorship and comments is to copy them one at a time and fix them where necessary to conform to the new blog platform.This i...
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This week, I installed Windows XP Pro via Boot Camp on a MacBook Pro with a new 500GB hard drive. I encountered some interesting trouble, but successfully got Windows going on the laptop and I'm passing on some of what I've learned to you.The goal was to ...
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You know how you're supposed to use 2 different kinds of sugars to avoid recrystalization and lumpiness while melting and caramelizing sugar? Well, if you didn't know before then you know now. Anyway, I made caramel for my popcorn this evening with honey ...
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So far, about half the old stories are back up and accessible from the Archive link or using the Search tool.Once that's done, the next step will be fixing some of the aesthetics on the site. The current layout is mostly for utility. I like the color-sche...
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Stuff came up. Busy. Sorry. I hear that analytics firms consider a blog to be abandoned if there hasn't been a post made for three months. Hah!Anyway, I'm back. Major updates in the works. Already moved to the 2-column format. 'Got lots of stuff to post a...
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Yesterday, iFixit.com, home to some of the best take-apart guides for Macs and often the first to document the innards of new Apple products, announced the release of 241 free downloadable repair guides for iMacs and Mac Minis. This isn't exactly revoluti...
