Monthly Archives: February 2008

Cool Font: Declaration (not free)

February 26, 2008 | Leave a comment
Now here’s a cool font: Dec­la­ra­tion (thanks to I Love Typog­ra­phy for the link). Granted, it’s not $50 worth of free. But, still…it’s cool. Like Papyrus, only hot.
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Fix WordPress Blogger Import Problem: "Next Parameter was bad or missing”

February 26, 2008 | Leave a comment
I recently tried to import my posts from blog­ger into Word­Press. I used WordPress’s blog­ger import tool. Unfor­tu­nately, it bombed out almost imme­di­ately, giv­ing me an error that said “The “next” para­me­ter was bad or missing.” Here’s how I fixed it: As per the instruc­tions here, I edited /wp-admin/import/blogger.php and removed all ref­er­ences to www2.blogger.com and [...]
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More on Font Rendering: Mac and Windows

February 25, 2008 | Leave a comment
Here’s an inter­est­ing arti­cle about the Mac phi­los­o­phy of font ren­der­ing which is pointed a lot more at the orig­i­nal font design and the way it ren­ders in print (which, in turn, looks like crap on screen). The best com­ment on the arti­cle: “Apple’s View­point: Garbage in, Garbage out Microsoft’s View­point: Garbage in, (arbi­trary deter­min­is­tic [...]
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Flock (again)

February 25, 2008 | Leave a comment
A lit­tle while ago Renais­sance Man blogged about how Flock’s font ren­der­ing is bet­ter than Firefox’s (FF3 on Ubuntu). So I bit the bul­let and fired up Flock on my Ubuntu lap­top, which ren­ders fonts crap­tas­ti­cally no mat­ter what I do. FF has always been a lit­tle bet­ter than Opera, but Flock def­i­nitely thick­ens things up, [...]
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Update: Last Wilco Residency Link Up

February 25, 2008 | Leave a comment
The Feb. 20th show of the Wilco Res­i­dency made it up on etree, so I added a link on my pre­vi­ous round-up post. You can get the show here.
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Don Chaffer Update

February 24, 2008 | Leave a comment
Because of the bad weather, I missed the first night of Don Chaffer. But I didn’t miss the rest. And not only did I not miss it, but I taped it for your lis­ten­ing pleasure. Right now, it’s in three big .wv (Wavepak) files. I have no idea about the lev­els. The qual­ity seems to [...]
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Seeing Waterdeep…or At Least Don

February 22, 2008 | Leave a comment
This week­end, I’m going to a retreat that Don Chaf­fer of Water­deep fame is speak­ing and lead­ing wor­ship at. I’m pretty pumped and can only hope he plays some stuff off their new album Heart Attack Time Machine. Like my friend Brian, the more I lis­ten to that album the more awe­some I decide it is. [...]
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Tales of Transmorgification

February 22, 2008 | Leave a comment
A while ago, Jonah got a book from the library about a boy who ate so many ham­burg­ers that he turned into one. A few weeks later, he got a book about a boy who ate so many bananas that he turned into a monkey. And that was it–Jonah was hooked on transforming. Which, of course, [...]
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Download Wilco Residency All Five Nights

February 22, 2008 | Leave a comment
Wilco just fin­ished up a 5-night gig in Chicago, where they played through their entire catalog. The bril­liant thing is that Wilco thinks you should share in what they do live, so you can down­load the whole thing legally via Bit­Tor­rent, assum­ing Com­Cast isn’t hos­ing you. Here’s some links that don’t require pass­words (all from bt.etree.com): [...]
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FireFox Web Development: Part 2 — Firebug

February 21, 2008 | Leave a comment
As I was look­ing around at Fire­fox exten­sions yes­ter­day for web devel­op­ment, I stum­bled onto Fire­bug. I had com­plained yes­ter­day that there was no way to edit html and apply the changes in real time in Fire­Fox like you could in Opera. Fire­bug lets you do just that. And it kicks Opera’s capa­bil­i­ties in the groin, [...]
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