Author Archives: Jim Vanderveen

About Jim Vanderveen

I'm a bit of a Renaissance man, with far too many hobbies for my free time! But more important than any hobby is my family. My proudest accomplishment has been raising some great kids! And somehow convincing my wife to put up with me since 1988. ;)

Other themes that I like

There are about a dozen themes I liked well enough to consider for my blog. They’re listed here, along with what I find attractive (or problematic). Continue reading

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“Sharepoint like” theme added

I finally found the Sharepoint theme, but it’s in Greek or Russian or some such. I’ve downloaded it, but have to convert it to English. So much for i18n…

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Pirate theme added, arrrr!

I installed another theme this morning. Heck, I’ve got the theme switcher installed, and one of my readers wanted the Yaaarr (pirate) theme, I figured I might as well add it. The theme lives on the Radical Georgia Moderate’s download … Continue reading

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WordPress theme/template info

Denis has a nice little collection of links in this post which explain how to use templates. (I haven’t seen how this applies to themes, but I’m a novice.) Thanks for the post, Denis, it collects all those articles together … Continue reading

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EFF publishes legal guide for bloggers

The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently published a legal guide for bloggers. I haven’t read all of it yet, but it seems to cover a lot of territory: political blogging, bloggers as journalists, privacy issues, defamation, all kinds of stuff. Check … Continue reading

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Borderline Chaos not honoring date format?

Borderline Chaos supplies its own date format, but what about my blog’s setting? Continue reading

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New theme(s) installed

Installed some new themes, along with wp_theme_switcher, and hacked on them a bit. Continue reading

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Internet programming language?

I stumbled across this post from almost exactly one year ago. Joseph, I salute your effort, and the fact that you made this work is very cool, but I think this approach (relatively low-level network programming) may be the wrong … Continue reading

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If this is so funny, why am I so angry?

Some awesome satire in this post (link broken, see update below). I think I need to add another listing to my blogroll… Update: Daniel voiced his conscience, and now his blog has been shut down. Behold, the land of the … Continue reading

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New link added, Sgt Zach’s blog

I’ve added a new blog to my link list, A Soldier’s Thoughts by Army Sgt Zachary Scott-Singley. I found out about this from an article posted on Common Dreams. I’m sorry that so many American people were too lazy and … Continue reading

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