If you’ve ever seen a picture or watched video footage of the Space Shuttle launching, you probably have a vague idea that what’s coming out of the business end is… powerful. Powerful enough to hurl it into the sky, right? Go and see today’s post at Common Themes on how powerful it can be, and [...]

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Just moments after posting, earlier today, my computer crashed. Rather, I should say that every program locked up, in a stream, over a period of ten to fifteen seconds. The menu bar started to freak out, and as nothing else responded, I had to force-shutdown. Seeing this as a signal to take a shower, take [...]

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Added a widget to give readers a pop-up way to add any post to their social thing of choice (Ma.gnolia, Facebook, etc), or send to someone via email/IM. Y’know, just in case someone wants to do that. It’s nifty. Customizable. (Put it on Common Themes and Common-Space.net as well.)

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Originally Common Themes ran on a theme that I liked the colors of, and went well with the masthead image I dropped in. Sadly that theme is no longer maintained, and I’ve been dragging my feet for months looking for a replacement (and as such, hadn’t upgraded to WP 2.3.x.) Happily I’ve found a theme [...]

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As I’ve been cleaning up Hoshichan.com’s archives (now in June 2002, woo), I’m also tinkering with other sites and doing some long-overdue maintenance. I’m upgrading Common-Space.net to the latest WordPress as we speak, having sucessfully upgraded the Redoable theme already. Common Themes uses a theme that is no longer updated, so I will be modifying [...]

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It’s a grey, grey day out there. (And you know what annoys me? Why is the spellchecker saying grey is incorrect? Grey and gray are BOTH correct. They both refer, among other things, to squirrels, and are spelled differently on either coast of these United States. Grey is a variant of gray, SO THERE.)
Figured out [...]

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This affects every domain of mine except Hoshichan:

Blinding-Lights.net
Common-Space.net
Moon-Prism.net
Serapii-Kisu.net
Serenitatis.com
Temporal-Princess.net
ZeninPrincess.com

All email addresses at these domains (including joined fanlistings) are bouncing at the moment; I’m working with my host to resolve this. T_T; Not that pleased to have this be my first news of the morning, and week.
Still Pottering, read books 2 and 6 before starting 7 Saturday [...]

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