Monthly Archives: October 2005

St Elmore’s fire

Posted on October 8, 2005 by acb

There is a superb essay in the current Atlantic magazine on Elmore Leonard which shows with clarity and sympathy just what is good and what is bad about him and how they interact. It’s also very funny: Though pioneered a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The Times has RSS feeds

Posted on October 7, 2005 by acb

I’ve been wanting them for years, since I loathe reading the paper. Apart from a couple of columnists, it’s tripe: I can see it turning into the Daily Express for people who don’t care about Diana. It’s a coarse, inaccurate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The durability of paper

Posted on October 7, 2005 by acb

Tim Bray, whose career has taken him from the OED to Sun Microsystems, is regarded as a huge XML evangelist. But there is a fascinating passage buried on his latest blog, where he was asked for advice by the people … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Posting from Ooobasic

Posted on October 6, 2005 by acb

Well, I will be if this has actually worked … Which will enable all sorts of strange goodies, if it works. The really important thing is that it is extremely easy to draw dialog boxes in OOo basic; whereas in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Redesign

Posted on October 2, 2005 by acb

It’s that time of year: this winter’s colours come from a summer evening on the Vindelälv. It’s the first time I have managed to do a light-on-dark design that looks good to me1 and, as always, the trick is to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Testing

Posted on October 2, 2005 by acb

This is a test, probably of very little interest to anyone but me, of a blogging button for Openoffice, that will send the current document up to an MT blog, using Textile formatting, and making the headline automatically from the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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