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paxtonland Update
Oh yeah, one more note: You can use HTML in your posts. If you’d like to post a link, make it clickable! Make tables, change colors, link to images, whatever you’d like. Just don’t get crazy with the javascript. But hey, if you do… I’ll fix it. If you need help getting started with HTML check out getting started!
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Blogger
Blogger is the best way for me to get my friends a method to post comments and links to this site. There are about 30 invites out. I’ll tell you, this is something of an experiment, Pyra is really built as a web based project management application. It’s code is propreitary and it’s gotten a HUGE following among the “digerati.” For my purposes here and everyone else, it provides a nice way to contribute to my personal place on the net. Hopefully, we’ll gather a nice community together. By that time, I can move on to another application and host…
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FrontPage? Notepad!
Hey Dean, thanks for the invite. I’ve been reading the posts and loving it. Dean you already know how I feel about FrontPage. Q? for LH. Do you really think FrontPage is easiest to use for beginners? I found Note Pad and raw code the easiest way to learn. Tried FrontPage once and said BAH! I tried to climb inside the box and strangle the “BOT”! Dean, I’ll be taking a look at Dreamweaver. Okay, the W3C is going with XHTML instead of calling it XML. Is it a compromise? Or are they losing their influence? Here’s one for you.…
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I Guess
M. here – I guess I’m learning also, but then… what the heck! Hi anyways… Happen to be in New York This afternoon, writing this, Monday, Chicago – but I can manage! P.S. Saw a post regarding the fingerprint technology (negative). There is new stuff that will be capable with Windows 2000 – Authentication Certificates stored on “Smart Cards”. I’ll be learning about that technology soon. Tata for now!
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Firetalk Communications
Firetalk Communications, Inc. – Free internet telephone, unlimited conference calling, voice chat on any website. Thanks to Dan for pointing me to this bit of web coolness. Looks even better than Dialpad.com I’m going to give it a try and let you know how it goes.
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FrontPage Is Maturing
Well, I think that it’s gotten a lot better. It’s also very, very good at cranking out sites fast.
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FrontPage, The Barney of Web Tools
I have no idea what this is, Dean. But thanks for the invite. As for the Dreamweaver vs. FrontPage thing … nobody likes to admit they use FrontPage. Among webfolk, such an admission just invites sneers. Check out the group web-design@topica.com. I read it every day, and FrontPage is sort of the Barney of web tools. Never mind that it’s also the easiest to use, especially for beginners.
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Microsoft Breakup, Part Two Electric Boogaloo
You know, I’m not sure about that whole Microsoft deal. I’m really not sure I even care. Everyone has an opinion about it, everyone is straining to say stuff no one has thought of yet. Bottom line: Now we can get screwed from two directions.
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PHP/MySQL Tutorial
Oh yeah, I forgot to post this PHP tutorial: PHP/MySQL Tutorial from Webmonkey. I’m sure you’d eventually have found it yourself, but I thought I better pop it in here.
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PHP
I’ve been trying to learn PHP. I’m not doing so very well. I’m also having trouble with the linux box, which is making it very hard. I’m not sure if the hard disk is failing (I just reinstalled), or if the whole machine is just a piece of shit. I can tell you this, with four computers running in this little room, it gets hot.
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Microsoft Breakup – A Cold Day In Hell
Well, Microsoft has been ordered to break in two. I don’t know what good their method is going to do. (One op sys company and on applications company.) I think this will simply make it two companies working together to dominate the market instead of one.
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Fight the Fingerprint!
Fight the Fingerprint! a networking group is opposed to using fingerprints as a method of identification. They make a compelling argument against it. It’s significant due to the trend to moving to fingerprint authentication for networks, operating systems, and signing encryption. Keep your eyes peeled on this technology and the privacy implications for the future.
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The CGI Resource Index
The CGI Resource Index: Programs and Scripts is a great resource of CGI and Perl scripts. Rich was mentioning on his page that he’s getting tired of writing every little thing by hand. He did too, java apps, guestbooks, even javascript for rollovers and stuff. What the hell? Why reinvent the wheel.
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Posting To paxtonland
Drag this link -> Post to Dean’s Page to your toolbar in IE/Netscape to get a quick pop-up window to easily post to this page!
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The Happy Hacker Digest
The happy hacker digest newsletter has started up again, relocated to e-groups.com. I used to love reading it and hung on every word for a time. I must say, it’s a piece of sellout shit now. Oh well. Will Microsoft have to move it’s headquarters into a low level, geosynchronous orbit? Perhaps they could lease the old Legion of Doom’s headquarters? No, they still would have to pay the piper down here in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. So what’s the point? They may as well stick it out down here. The rent is probably cheaper. Thank you to…
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Webby’s And Stile
Okay, I don’t know about you, but I think that Stile Project is just plain porn. I don’t know why it got a webby, probaby due to sheer traffic. I can’t imagine it was the content. It’s sort of like the Howard Stern of web sites, millions of users check Stile daily despite what anyone thinks.
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Benchmarks Smenchmarks
Why are benchmark tests that are conducted by the heavy hitters like Tom’s Hardware, ARStechnica, and others so insistent that we all can understand them and find them useful? Who the hell has a copy of Quake III, or what-ever-in-the-hell? How can we possibly make them understand that in order for a benchmark to be useful, they should use the common junk that the common slob runs. Word, Netscape, I.E. Hell… even defrag, startup, and shut down! Forget about Winstones, whetstones, and stick-it-up-yer-ass-stones… Just give me seconds or even milliseconds. For example: Our test motherboard/CPU is an ABIT KA7 with…
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Can’t Sprell
Wow, spelling errors. I must make about 100 a day. You’d think that I’d get a clue and remember how to spell some of these words. Am I retarded? One thing, Blogger does not have any kind of spell checker. At least my little pumped up text editor could to a pretty good, fast spell check. Now, I have to read my stuff five days later and see that I’ve spelled a word incorrectly.
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Blogger For Keeps
Well, as you can probably tell, I’ve finally submitted to the power of blogger. I must say that it sure beats editing this crap by hand. Thanks to Matt and all of the blogheads at Pyra. Even if they don’t have a solvent business model…
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Weekend Update
The weekend is finally over, whew. Number one son went to a yard sale on Saturday. He bought of all things a thighmaster, a archers trophy from 1986, and several misc. exercise contraptions. His siblings taunted him relentlessly. I felt kind of bad, but it was soooo funny. Hope he does well at his game tomorrow
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Blogger
I’m using this for a couple of days just to see how it goes. If I like it, I’ll use it for the main page instead of doing it by hand.