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Few more tweaks

ByDerek

I’m still playing with the site and the new WordPress Twenty Fourteen theme.  Though the help of the excellent Fourteen Extended plugin, all posts are showing in reverse chronological order on the home page now.  The featured posts at the top are not necessarily the three most recent anymore.  I’ve also changed the homepage to…

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Preparing for the onslaught

ByDerek

So far, this week at work has been mostly about this little gem. Microsoft lost a patent lawsuit with Eolas, a company with yet another stupid technology patent for embedding a plugin in a webpage, using something simple and logical like an <embed> tag. Since Microsoft lost this lawsuit, they’re changing IE so that if…

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How long before Spitzer weighs in on big oil?

ByDerek

With California Attorney General Bill Lockyer being the first to launch an investigation into oil company “profiteering”, I’m sure the antithesis of big business, Eliot Spitzer, is chomping at the bit to get in on the action and play to the hearts of the liberal voters. I hope he does. I hope he breaks down…

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Bloggers make the mainstream media

ByDerek

Bloggers unplug for an offline picnic By STEPHEN T. WATSON News Staff Reporter 7/16/2006 Buffalo’s bloggers took a break Saturday from criticizing Joel Giambra, Wal-Mart and the Buffalo Sabres’ proposed new logo to eat some barbecue and meet their cyber peers. Their low-key gathering at Chestnut Ridge Park is the latest sign that this region’s…

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Aquarama – scrapped

ByDerek

According to the St. Catharines Standard, the Aquarama/Marine Star was scrapped, starting on September 16 last year. The former passenger and auto ferry Aquarama was sold for scrap and towed to Aliaga, Turkey, last summer. The ship had been idle since 1962. … The deep-sea tug Aetos Z. took the vessel across the Atlantic and…

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