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  • Darn Explorer

    My wife told me the other day that our site wasn’t being properly rendered by Internet Explorer. I haven’t been using Internet Explorer for years and so I wasn’t able to spot it. I wouldn’t have minded if not for the fact that 40% of those who visit the Cybercafe Experiments use Internet Explorer. Both…

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  • TiddlyWiki evangelization: An introduction to TiddlyWikis

    A TiddlyWiki is a single webpage that you can use as a browser-based notepad or tasks list manager. The page is composed of tiddlers – small packets of information similar to notes you keep in index cards. The tiddlers are editable — either by double-clicking on them or clicking on the edit menu that appears…

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  • Book meme

    I was tagged by Alma Total Books Owned: Less than a hundred. All that’s left are a couple of dozens (many lost, some borrowed and never returned (a crime I’m also guilty of)) Last Book I Bought: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Last Books I Read: An E.B. White Reader The Professor and The…

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  • I passed

    Thank God I passed. I got the mail last night. I passed the “Reporting About Information Technology” course handled by industry pioneer Chin Wong. It’s second of the three courses for the diploma program on online journalism. The third course will be Online Journalism, which will be handled by Dr. Elliot King, associate professor of…

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  • When you need more than just More

    In WordPress, you can determine which part of your post gets displayed in the home page as teaser to the full article. You can either do this using excerpts or the more tag. I suggest you use the More tag: <!–more–> . It’s an easier way to customize the length of the article’s teaser in…

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