Micah on December 19th, 2008

I’ve been spending way too much time trying out WordPress themes. Most have needed some tweaking, and very few meet my needs. I expect that my needs are not unique, but a lot of themes are really lacking in some important areas. This list tries to capture the accommodations my ideal theme would satisfy. Picture [...]

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Micah on June 12th, 2008

Over the years I’ve gotten a lot of value out of reading Amazon reviews. But only recently have I actually become a contributor to their sophisticated social system (a different S3 . Now I’m discovering some great benefits to writing reviews — let me share them with you. Here are the reasons it might be [...]

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Micah on May 23rd, 2008

As I mentioned in my last post, Eventbrite has kindly provided a list of all 50 SWPDX attendees, including their blogs. I also noticed an “OPML Feed” link there. Sweet! Unfortunately, that OPML is useless for Google Reader (lacking xmlUrls), and likely the same story for other readers. I had to manually load each one [...]

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