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I’m on Google Maps

2008-06-11 – 14:24:49 -0400

I remember spotting this Google car on the way to work last fall. Too bad you can’t see my face through the windshield. I’m in the black Honda Civic.

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More Hardware Upgrades

2008-03-15 – 12:26:27 -0400

Hopefully you’ve noticed some drastic improvements in load times, as I’ve moved Gyrate Dot Org to new hardware. My old “server” was a little Mini-ITX box with a 1Ghz VIA Nehemiah CPU, 256MB of memory, and a laptop hard drive. It certainly was quiet and power efficient, but it was frustratingly slow sometimes. […]

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Gyrate Archive

2008-02-27 – 12:16:25 -0500

I still have backups of every database containing every post and comment from every version of my site going back almost 10 years. I was looking through them last night with the intention of possibly importing them into WordPress, but man, most of them are pretty embarrassing! I sure spent a lot of […]

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I Hate Web Design

2008-02-23 – 01:05:32 -0500

I decided to modernize the old Gyrate theme a little in order to remind myself of why I hate web design. Okay, so maybe that wasn’t the original intent, but it was the result. I know this is taboo, and I’m well aware of all the arguments against them, but I miss “layout […]

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Look! It’s Old School Gyrate!

2008-02-21 – 22:09:41 -0500

In my last post, I mentioned that I was worried about having to dig too deep into the mess of PHP/HTML that is WordPress templates in order to come up with a decent theme for my new resurrected blog. Whenever I look at other people’s code, I tend to find about a million things […]

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