OK, here’s the plain honest truth. I am turned off by advertising. I am turned off by marketing. And I am turned off by publicity stunts. The heavier a push is to get me to see/read/consume something, the more resistence I have to seeing, reading, or consuming it. It’s pig-headed stubbornness, really. If you get [...] Read more »

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OK, so last year I went to a wine festival. I mention this to point out that it wasn’t a rock concert or something ultra-hip, a place where people dress in the latest hot meatmarket club-culture clothing. One sight that stood out in my memory was an otherwise conservatively dressed, pleasant-looking twentysomething. She was sitting [...] Read more »

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OK, this is annoying. I’ve noticed a bug with the skinning part of the site which I may or may not have fixed. It’s difficult for me to replicate. So, if the site looks really strange to you — a grey instead of blue sidebar on the left, for example, and test bumped up against [...] Read more »

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So, you might notice a new design, if you’ve never changed skins. Or you might notice that your skin settings have been changed. Sorry about that; I’ve been working (again) on the back end of the site. I decided the way I was doing things wasn’t nearly flexible enough and my code was getting pretty [...] Read more »

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Am I the only one who hasn’t seen Shakespearian Error Messages? Read more »

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