Category Archives: Notes From the Gearworks

To-may-to, To-mah-to

By ACF | Published: April 20, 2010
The Tower Attendant has reluctantly taken hammer and chisel and changed the tagline of this Web site — oops, I mean website — to conform to the decision made by the editors of the Associated Press Stylebook that “Web site” is now “website” … and yet “the Web,” “Web page” and “Web feed” remain the [...]
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Swashbuckler Soiree

By ACF | Published: March 23, 2010
The folks in charge of Privateer Day in Fell’s Point, Baltimore, sent me this flyer for one of the upcoming Privateer Day events to pass along — I suppose because I posted about my visit to Privateer Day last year — so I’ll do just that, since I think the flyer looks extra cool, this [...]
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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 [...]
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