Just a quick note in case any of you out there were confused by the fact that my name was appearing on another WordPress blog, called Mr. Sports. I am the administrator, but the posts are actually authored by my son, who has caught the blogging bug in a big way from his old man. [...]
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Lately I’ve been wrestling with issue of whether to publish full or partial text feeds for RSS readers. On the one hand, there’s the partial feed virtues:
I like the idea of people coming to the site
As far as I can tell, the version of WordPress I’m using doesn’t track RSS readers, so I have no [...]
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Sorry for the long dry spell. Real life and real work have taken all my time this past week. I promise it’s gonna start raining fresh content here, within the next 24 hours. Get your umbrella ready. I have 8 posts in draft right now, plus another storm of InDesign templating wisdom from Cinnamon is [...]
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Just updated the PDF of the Non-Designer’s Design Checklist to make it a little less crude in case you might actually want to keep it for reference.
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About a dozen years ago, as I embarked upon my journey into the realm of publishing, I bought a book called The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams. I’m pretty sure it was recommended to me by the guy who taught my first Quark XPress class. I remember thinking it was a fine and fun [...]
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Sorry to get all meta on you, but at this moment I have no choice but to blog about blogging.
Over the weekend, I was told by someone that they did a Google search for one of the recipes in the Ethan’s Family Cookbook and found it online. Actually what they found was one of the [...]
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What started out as a joke in another post becomes a post in itself. C’est la blog.
Here’s my writing routine: Around 9 PM I head downstairs and settle in on the couch in the family room with my laptop. Shortly thereafter I am joined by two 11-week-old Siamese furballs named Sasha and Storm who make [...]
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