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Migrated from dasBlog to WordPress

After many good years of publishing via dasBlog I made the decision to jump ship and start using WordPress. dasBlog has been speedy, stable and very easy to style. It’s a great…

Yay, dasBlog 2.0!

I think it was pure voodo, but I have dasBlog 2.0 installed now.  I hope it sticks. Now, off to copy all my content back, migrate my modified page layout, ...

Turning lemons into lemonade

The web, the ultimate tool for the generation and dissemination of irony, hasn't lost it's touch.  A recent post by a Google employee intended to illustrate how advertising can be used for…

Blogging for the MTV generation

Web pages are complicated.  People want to share their life stories and pictures, but learning HTML is hard (ask Trina).  So the world of blogging was born.  Blog software has made it…

Migrating content from Blogger to dasBlog

I started my first blog back in 2002 on Blogger but switched to using dasBlog in late 2003 when I was wanting more control of my site.  I've wanted to migrate the…

Hello? Steve? Cancel the Joe Isuzu ad campaign.

CNN: the most trusted name in news?  Must be on the web, because television is loosing ground to the Internet as a trusted source for information.  From that I segue gracefully into...…

Hey, I can see my house from here!

On Sunday most people got their first glimpse of MSN Virtual Earth (well, the PR started Sunday at any rate) and frankly... it’s pretty damn cool.  Imagine the useful features of Google…

Back up again

Sorry if you received a reload of my entire post set, my blog software threw a cog this morning and a reinstall was required to get up and running again.

The shrinking web

The reason the World Wide Web is called the World Wide Web is because it’s filled with interconnected links, allowing you to move from site to site.  Do you ever do that?…

RSS Readers

I've found that without an RSS reader I don't get around to checking out my friend's pages, so I need to get myself a reader and am now going to make a…

Are Blogs really “all that”?

Seriously now... blogs are little more than personal home pages with built-in text editors. People put up web pages for a number of reasons, but it's really all about a real or…

If a blog falls in the wood…

My Cousin Mark Robert (I can't remember a name for two seconds? Must be time to put me out to pasture) used to work for Nokia as a patent attorney, now it…

A virtual vacation!

Aren't computers grand?  The magic of the web and blogging technology allow us to keep a virtual eye on Rob and Sharon as they each celebrate their 30th birthday in Paris. Rob…

Say what?

Stop me if you've heard this one... Someone who speaks three languages is... trilingual Someone who speaks two languages is... bilingual Some one who speaks one language is... American! Sure, an oldie…

Wow, you really do think highly of yourself.

Blogging seems to be seeping deeper and deeper into our culture.  Aditya posted a link to a great NYT article on blogging. Here's the quote that got me thinking: And while there…