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Yesterday’s post seemed a bit garbled to me. I wanted to work on a hastier posting style, but then see what happens? I make even less sense than usual. I’d like to set down this latest migration adventure for posterity. I’d be happy if it helps even one person in the future. This post is mostly for my own memory and those random Internet searchers looking for similar information. Expect more hasty incoherence to follow. Hasty and *extended* incoherence. Read on at your own risk. You’ve been warned.
I’ve talked about how backing data up is an obsessively crucial part of my computer usage, and mentioned that I picked up the awesome Linksys Network Storage Link for my online backups. I’ve …
by Scott Carpenter on 6 February 2007 at 4:30 am
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In one of my “moving to freedom in stages” projects, I’ve started to use the GIMP on Windows XP. GIMP is the free software counterpart of Adobe Photoshop.
I’ve mentioned previously my bewilderment when faced with its amazing power and feature list. I have to confess that I often just fire up MS Paint or IrfanView for quick image manipulation jobs. That previous post mentions how I found tutorials to do more sophisticated things like changing transparency in .png files and removing red eye, but there are a lot of simple jobs I can do in Paint and IrfanView that would take me a good chunk of time to learn …
by Scott Carpenter on 9 December 2006 at 9:11 pm
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I’m trying out FeedBurner for managing my feeds and for email subscriptions. (See: New! In the right sidebar under the syndication links.) It was pretty easy to start using with the help of this WordPress FeedBurner plugin for redirecting the RSS and Atom feeds to FeedBurner. My initial impression of their service is very positive. The only problem I’ve had is that images don’t show up in the feed anymore, because I’m using relative paths and they need to be absolute. (That was most noticeable at first. I’ve since realized that internal links were broken also.)
I contacted FeedBurner support and I think Matt Shobe must have been responding to me even before I clicked the “submit” button, as if they have …
by Scott Carpenter on 23 September 2006 at 1:31 pm
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