The Authentic Eccentric

Cult of Done

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I did it – I went and joined a cult, that’s why I’ve been so quiet! Now, this is done too.

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Boy, was the wait worth it! The new 2.7 version of Wordpress (aka Coltrane) was just released, and upgrading AE took just about 6 minutes not counting the full server backup.
Some of the fun stuff to look forward to in 2.7 includes:

Automatic one click upgrades (admin privileges required)
One click plugin installation from Wordpress.org (suspect this [...]

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I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be delivering Wordpress to Get Your Words Out as an NTEN webinar on Tuesday, October 21st from 2:00 – 3:30 pm. Registration is open to the general public as well.
This is a great, low cost way to learn everything you need to know to set up and [...]

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Oh, look – new and shiny stuff for Facebook -

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Ok, it’s new to me, but if you’re on Facebook, why not add me?

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Google Package

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Look what showed up in the mail today!
They made a good choice – I’ll probably use both the cookbook and the apron.

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While I’ve been silent a lot lately, I haven’t been idle. My most recent project has been helping a former client sell some equipment on eBay. Yes, eBay – I haven’t used them in a few years, but their audience *is* massive, and he wants to clean out his storage unit, so I agreed to [...]

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I’ve been keeping an eye on Scott Eric Kaufman’s meme experiment. It seems it took on legs:
Posts that contain "Acephalous" Meme per day for the last 30 days.Get your own chart!
While you can see a huge spike of blogs linking in during the first 2 days, it quickly trails off, illustrating again the “long tail” [...]

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This will be the 12th Christmas since my mother passed. Although I miss her keenly throughout the year, the first holidays were brutal. One of the ways I cope is to embrace some of the traditions I miss so much and find new ways to share them.
One of the first things I remember learning [...]

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Our washer and dryer recently broke, necessitating replacement. For most people, this wouldn’t be a big deal – they’d go out, buy what they needed or wanted and be done with it. However, the entry to our basement is narrower than most – instead of a 32″ opening, we have 25.5″. With 4 folks here, [...]

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Since October we have been testing Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress on Jen Burke’s Transcending Gender. The results have been so significant that I requested permission to share them with my readers.
As you can see, there has been a dramatic increase in visitors and page views:

Google really likes the new service – they spidered [...]

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