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The Robotic Overlords Always Win

By ACF | Published: March 14, 2010
The Tower Attendant can’t believe for a second — or even half a second — that he actually learned some CSS code; created a “stylesheet”; learned the proper formatting and uploading procedures; had adventures with text editors (which are not people); and generally created his own “child theme” of the WordPress theme he has recently [...]
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The More Things Change …

By ACF | Published: March 4, 2010
The Tower Attendant is tinkering with a new design theme. It might be kept … or not. Elements might be rearranged, folded and spindled … or not. The theme might change to the new WordPress default theme, which has all kinds of cool options with its header image, when it is released in a few [...]
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For the Record

By ACF | Published: February 9, 2010
We got 21 inches of snow on Dec. 19. This past weekend we had a snowfall of 24.8 inches officially, but many areas received 30 or more inches. Big whopper snowstorms are fairly rare here, though not unheard of. Previous ones were in 2003 and 1996. This is the first time since records began that we’ve received two [...]
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How I Learned to Keep Worrying but Still Tolerate the Internet: Setting Up WordPress for a Self-Hosted Blog

By ACF | Published: April 7, 2009
When I set out to put up this site as a self-hosted blog, I found that basic instructions on how to do so are almost always incomplete. There are gaps in the instructions from several sources that one has to fill in oneself. I thought I’d share the links that helped me, in case they are useful [...]
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