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Bwaha! I finally sat down and tracked the problem with the extra white space. It turned out to actually be a bug in the very nice Coppermine integration plugin I use, but which had been fixed in the latest version. It was inserting a spurious “clear: both” that was causing the problem.
I’m very happy to [...]

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You may have noticed that the site was offline for three days. This was “upgrade weekend”, and it was a major change – I reinstalled my server from MacOS X Server to Gentoo Linux PPC. After a bumpy start, things are starting to get back into shape. There are still some things that may not [...]

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Wordpress 1.5.2 is out, and I have upgraded this site. I always find it amazing how easy the process it. Wordpress is a real example of a well-written and easy-to-use web application. This release supposedly fixes issues with category settings from Ecto – this post will be the test.
Update: categories work!

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Wow – I got my first round of comment spam today. I guess that means my little blog has gotten of age For now I’m still relying on Wordpress’ built-in features (all the spam was caught by moderation), but maybe I’ll have to look at some of the other available plugins….

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I’ve enabled the theme in which I have been working yesterday and today. It’s based on the excellent Arzel XT2 theme by Arzel Yusop. One of the main reasons I like this theme is that it is of flexible width. There are many nice themes out there, but I dislike having a fixed-width theme. I [...]

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Haven’t posted anything in a while, so a short update (mostly for myself) is in order: I haven’t had much time to work on CopperExport lately. I’m working on a new theme for this site, based on the Arzel XT2 theme. I also finally got iPhoto 5, so I’ll be doing all further development work [...]

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I have created a new category called “Linky” for quick links to interesting things on the web. I have implemented it using Matt’s “asides”, following the excellent instructions put together by Fernando_Graphicos, and modified the style to mark them with a nice icon from the Nuvola icon set by David Vignoni. You can see them [...]

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As I’m getting more comfortable with WordPress, I’m exploring some of the available plugins, themes, etc. It’s tons of fun! So if you visit and things are broken, it’s just me playing with things. Maybe it’ll stabilize after a while

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Wordpress 1.5 has been released! Being new to blogging, I have found wordpress extremely easy to install, use, and full of nice features. This site had been running on wordpress nightly snapshots, and I just upgraded to 1.5 “Strayhorn”. Congratulations to Matt and all the wordpress developers, for doing such a nice job.
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I finally decided to set up a weblog. Let’s see how this evolves. I’m just setting things up, so the look is still quite plain – hopefully it will improve in the next few days.

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