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The implications of long term reliability in handmade data driven websites...

...or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Drupal...

I recently had to make a smaller website project for a client, and I figured I'd try and make everything by hand. I mean, why not? A full blown CMS seemed far too bloated for the relatively small feature-set expected. All I’d really need is a little php here, some javascript to server AJAX stuff there... What fun! Though, let me take a second to get metaphorical here:

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Motorcycle + PDA + GPS = Fun?

About 2 years back I happened upon an older pocket PC. Left for dead, unable to boot, collecting dust, it was going to be chopped to bits as IT fodder. i said "No! Be not crule to old tech! It knows not of it's own obsolescence!!!".. or something to that effect. Long story short, I became the proud owner of a 2001 model Cassiopeia E-115! Having one wasn't enough, and before long for less than $50, I owned three outmoded winCE PDAs...

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I'm going to maker faire 2009!

See you all there! and check out the flickr random maker faire widget I made on the right.. see you in there too!

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Quick Steps for better output on newsprint web press

Correcting for web printing on newsprint (sometimes colloquially referred to as toilet paper by printers) can sometimes be pretty difficult. Newsprint has one of the smallest printing gamut ranges, so getting your bright colors to output properly can be nigh impossible (Single image Gamut comparison chart) , not to mention all your midtones to shadows can muddy up like crazy if you don't reel them in a bit.

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