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yalokinh wrote:I ordered a very cheap shu bing on ebay from one of those noname companies (had a crappy picture of a horse on the wrapper), and i have to say, it is outperforming some of my more expensive puer, for once it doesnt have a one dimensional taste profile.
saxon75 wrote:Tonight, the 2010 Wild Tree Pu-erh of Dehong from YS. Again, it has that medicinal note that seems to be common in young shengs, but it's very smooth and mild, not bitter at all. Very sweet, too. I'm interested to see how this develops in subsequent infusions--I'm on the 3rd right now.
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Andrea Hall-Hayes steps out her front door in Summerville, Ga. (pop. 4,534), and walks down the sidewalk to work. Her pace quickens as she nears a small wooden box mounted on a post on her neighbor�s front lawn.
�I can�t wait to open that little glass door and see what�s new,� says Hall-Hayes, 40, an avid reader who borrows two or three books each week from Little Free Library No. 1035. When she finishes reading the books, she returns them to the weatherproof box in Bill Barker�s yard.
Barker�s miniature library is among thousands that booklovers have erected in their yards, along bike paths, in community gardens and outside schools across America.
�I�m a book collector and covered up with books,� says Barker, 81, who read about the Little Free Library movement in a newspaper article last year and loved the idea. He hired a cabinetmaker to make the wooden library and keeps its shelf stocked with fiction and nonfiction, especially by Southern writers. Barker named it the Ann Barker Memorial Library to honor his late wife.
From his front porch, the library caretaker waves and visits with people who stop to browse the 15 or so titles inside the book box.
�There�s a lot of foot traffic here,� Barker says, �and I�ve gotten to meet some of my neighbors.�
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Boosting reading and neighborliness is exactly what Todd Bol, 56, had in mind when he launched the Little Free Library movement in 2009. In memory of his school-teaching mother, he built a library resembling a one-room schoolhouse for his front yard in Hudson, Wis. (pop. 12,719).
Bol added a sign��Take a book, Return a book��and was delighted when children and adults began making regular visits and taking photos of his miniature library.
�People feel like it�s a gift to the neighborhood,� Bol says. �I�ve actually seen people hug the library.�
When other book fans began building libraries on their lawns, Bol and his friend Rick Brooks established the Little Free Library as a nonprofit organization to map the movement. Caretakers who register their libraries for $25 receive a sign and number. The founders initially hoped to surpass the 2,509 large libraries funded by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie from 1883 to 1929, but now they envision tens of thousands of Little Free Libraries worldwide.
Brooks, 64, is thrilled that neighbors and groups, such as 4-H, get together for library-building parties, and that people discuss literature and form friendships at the curbside book boxes.
�The thing that�s gratifying is to see that a wooden box is a house of magic,� he says. �Sharing books is such a good idea.�
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For Steve Madden, Little Free Libraries promote reading by getting books into the hands of children year-round in Bolton, Vt. (pop. 1,182). For seven summers, Madden drove a bookmobile twice weekly to Bolton, which doesn�t have a public library.
�There�s no real center to the town. It�s in the mountains and bisected by the Winooskie River as well, so there was lots of driving,� says Madden, 47, librarian at Camels Hump Middle School in nearby Richmond.
Last June, residents built five Little Free Libraries, which Madden stocks with a rotating selection of children�s books to encourage return visits. Plus, readers contribute their own books.
One young reader not only shares her latest favorite books, such as �The Unwanted,� but she created her own book-lending box.
Last summer, Jordan Liebich, 11, transformed an abandoned newspaper rack into a Little Free Library and parked it outside Riverstone International School in Boise, Idaho. Jordan painted the box bright blue and stenciled the school�s otter mascot on the side.
The sixth-grader says the Little Free Library, situated on a popular bike path, makes it �free and easy� for kids to grab a book, especially in the summertime.
�Reading opens up more of the world and opportunities,� says the book-a-day reader. �It makes you think more imaginatively. It makes you smarter. It makes you take in situations differently.�
A library park
Perhaps the biggest fan of Little Free Libraries is author Charlotte Endorf, 46, who transformed her front yard into a library park and gathering spot in Hadar, Neb. (pop. 293).
Her husband, Kevin, 46, built eight whimsical libraries, including ones shaped like a miniature railroad car and a horse. He laid a yellow brick �road� to the attraction, and bookworm Lela Newcombe, 98, donated a bench. David Cummings, 62, owner of the Village Inn Bar and Grill, installed a flagpole on his parking lot with a banner promoting the libraries.
The park bustles day and night.
�Little girls and boys come skipping up or riding their bikes and get books,� Endorf says. �One mom comes on a four-wheeler. Grandmothers bring their grandchildren here and read books. People even come with flashlights after dark.�
Endorf smiles and relates one �problem� with Little Free Libraries.
�The biggest question the kids have for me is, �I only brought one or two books and I can�t decide. Would it be OK if I take three or four books?��
She couldn�t be happier.
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POWERFUL stuff from a 15 year oldPosted Thursday, September 27, 2007, at 10:09 AM
I have not seen this mentioned here so I included it for those who would like to see a moving, powerful slide show from a person I am told is 15.
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one would have thought that the enough should have come right after Mission Accomplished.
-- Posted by Dianatn on Mon, Oct 1, 2007, at 12:14 AM
Sorry darrick_04 I think you have me confused with someone else. No babies for me.
-- Posted by devan on Sun, Sep 30, 2007, at 4:50 PM
dc_0725: I think we were off topic before my post.
I think you made some unfounded assumptions about the beliefs behind my comments. I do believe in the First Amendment - probably as strongly as you do because as you pointed out it should protect us all regardless of belief. That includes the ideal of separation of church and state. As pointed out in some of the other blogs, most of the worst violence done to mankind has happened when states controlled religion or religion controlled states.
My objection to the perversion in the media would be the same if I were not a Christian, and was before I became one, because its destructive of our society, our health, and our security. I just believe the definition of speech as protected under the constitution has been corrupted and there may be our disagreement. You know its not as simple as turning off the TV. Its all the media and you could hardly lead a public life and avoid it.
Lastly, I have no problem with my children having exposure to different beliefs and cultures. Education is fine but indoctrination is not and that has nothing to do with religion either. Its has everything to do with parental rights. Perhaps as we have future discourse you'll find that we don't disagree about everything, or maybe we do. Either way that's what we're here to find out.
You are right, see we agree on something already, this started out about honoring and supporting our troops regardless of whether we support the war in Iraq. So God bless and protect them until they can come home.
-- Posted by devan on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 10:36 PM
And when I say "you just had a little baby girl" it is implied as meaning, you and your wife...
And Matt, I just don't understand why want to go to Iraq? Is the the college money and the increased signing bonus they offered you?
I think, if I were joining the military I'd demand that the administration that seeks to start wars instead of negotiating peace(while sitting in America and hearing about it), should be on the front lines.
"There's no war worth fighting for if the leaders aren't fighting!"-Darrick
-- Posted by darrick_04 on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 9:52 PM
AMEN dc.. Did I just say "Amen"? It seems that way..
And mkelley, I think you have missed the whole point about going to Iraq... You aren't signing up to protect our freedoms, you are signing up to protect oil!
I know exactly who you are... We were once co-workers, and you are a wise young man. But to hear you speak about Iraq as if they are going to kill us, is mind boggling! Iraq DOES NOT want American troops there any more than the AMERICAN people do...
I support troops, and the best way to support them, is to actually demand they do what they are signing up to do, PROTECT America, not foreign countries. Iraq is one of the absolute least threats we have. If we are so concerned with spreading democracy, which we don't even have, then we I could think of about 20 other nations, that are BEGGING for our presence.. WHY? Simply because they have NO valuable resources that we can benefit from, by invading and protecting their people! Don't become a government sheeple! ARMY: "Be all you're told to be." Your brother was over there at one point in time, and I know your dad plays a special role in the government too... But just because they think it's right to be in the WRONG country, doesn't mean you should.
And devan, it seems to me, that if you just had a little baby girl (and were in the hospital for three days) you would be spending more time with her than on the T-G blogs.
-- Posted by darrick_04 on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 9:37 PM
Oh and Devan, one last thing, the VERY admendement that you dislike because of the assault on your eyes and ears, is the very one that protects your right to go around preaching your religious beliefs. The First Amendment is not just their for Christian's to enjoy, but for all of us to enjoy, like I said, if you don't like what you are seeing simply grab the remote and click the change channel button, really isn't that hard.
-- Posted by dc_0725 on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 7:20 PM
"When it comes to the rights that we are losing the ones I am most concerned with are my right not to have my eyes and ears assaulted by every kind of perversion imaginable by every media available and have it called free speech"
Don't watch TV, you have the RIGHT to turn it off, what is offensive to you may not be offensive to others.
"my right to be a Christian without being treated like a fascist and called a hypocrite because I stand for causes that are unpopular with social liberals"
Yeah, OKAY WHATEVER...Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the needs of the state... Fascists seek to forge a type of national unity, usually based on ethnic, cultural, or racial attributes.
Yes you are a Facists if you think you will ever gain national unity on YOUR Religion
"my right to protect my children from the indoctrination that seems to be taking the place of education in schools today."
I KNOW, RIGHT? How dare your children grow up and know that people are different and have different beliefs? That is such a horrible thing for kids to learn *rolls eyes*
-- Posted by dc_0725 on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 7:16 PM
They called it "the greatest generation". They grew up in the shadow of one world war more devastating and cruel that anything the world had yet seen and then fought another even worse. They saw "terrorists" attack Pearl Harbor and felt the hate and holocaust of Hitler and other fascists. Then they entered into the Cold War with nuclear destruction hanging over their heads. They saw racism recognized as an offense against mankind and then saw those gains reversed by the welfare state. The only things they didn't endure, at least in the earlier years, were the devastating social changes of the sexual revolution in the form or pornography, sexually transmitted diseases, and legal murder called abortion. Their children and grandchildren are heir to these.
This generation has its share of issues to deal with but I don't know that they have it any worse than that previous generation. I hope they learn from its mistakes.
When it comes to the rights that we are losing the ones I am most concerned with are my right not to have my eyes and ears assaulted by every kind of perversion imaginable by every media available and have it called free speech; my right to be a Christian without being treated like a fascist and called a hypocrite because I stand for causes that are unpopular with social liberals; and my right to protect my children from the indoctrination that seems to be taking the place of education in schools today.
-- Posted by devan on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 5:22 PM
And just out of curiosity, What good have we done there, besides show them that Democracy is not such a good thing. They don't even want us there. Yeah, we got rid of Suddam, but their lives aren't any better and it never will be, they have been fighting amongst themselves for years and will continue to do so long after we are (hopefully) gone.
-- Posted by James48 on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 5:21 PM
With all due "respect" to the young boy going off to War. IRAQ DID NOT ATTACK US! How many times does this need to be said. you are going over there to kill them before they kill us? you scare me more than they do.
and DianaTN...Well spoken..Bravo to you. The kids of America have been dealt a rough hand for the future. They are a generation in distress, yet they seem to be handling all of it pretty well.
-- Posted by James48 on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 5:19 PM
Not to mention the video you just viewed was made by one of these today's youths.
-- Posted by Dianatn on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 3:55 PM
First let me say Good Luck to you and you are wrong about the kids of today. Many Kids of today have more heart and more soul than any other generation. These children of now a days have seen more unnecessary violence than any other. They saw terrorist come onto our land and attacks us using our own planes from our own country..they have seen the very ones they go to school with attack them and their friends at a place most of us always thought was safe, at school. They have watched and listened as our government has taken their rights away little by little. They must wonder how this will effect their lives in the very near future. They have watched all the doom and dread of global warming and wonder will the earth survive into their adult years or What future does it hold for their children. They have watched their brothers, sisters, boyfriends or girlfriends, fathers and mothers come back from Iraq in body bags and severely hurt and they ask themselves, WHY? They watch as our National Debt becomes larger than it ever has in history and they wonder how in the world will our economy ever be able to support this debt. They watch as Nations across the world hold rallies of hate towards the United States and they wonder why these people hate them so much and they know in their hearts Hate only grows, how much more hate can they endure. They listen to the news as the very terrorist that attacked our Nation are on video telling them to beware more attacks will come and they know these very same terrorist are speaking to the ones already in place inside the United States and there is no one here to protect our great nation because they are away fighting an entirely different war..a war for Oil and Greed. Leaving the very people they are suppose to be protecting virtually unprotected. Watching the very people in government offices that are suppose to be protecting their rights and freedoms being hauled off to jail for cheating and stealing.
The Children of Today live with all these fears everyday. Along with more broken homes and single parent homes than ever in history. More child suicide than ever in history. More teen pregnancy than ever in history. More children with stress and anxiety problems on Prozac than ever in history.
Considering everything going on around the youth of today I personally think they are doing pretty darn good coping with life in general.
-- Posted by Dianatn on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 11:23 AM
This is jkelley's son who just signed for the Marines! I just checked my email an i got this link to this video an a short message from my Mom (she told me she was proud of me an loved me at the end of the email)! Well... I watched the video an broke down an cried... thinking bout what my mom just told me(an thinkin bout how much I'm gonna miss her when I'm gone...an how this could be my last yr. with my family forever)! Most kids my age don't have to face what I'm about to go through... an its probably best most of the kids don't cause they probably can't handle it. Kids today don't have respect for nothing... all they know is they want nice cars with loud stereos in them an they want to go to college an party! with me thats not the case... all I want is my family for one more year an to live life as best as I can for one more year before I have to head overseas! Guess who gives the young punks the freedom to enjoy their little sports cars?..The Troops! We are over there for a reason... the reason is ... so they don't come over here terrorising our crap! why don't we just kill them over there that way we don't have to worry bout em anymore! What would you rather do? A.fight them over there and let our troops do it OR B. let them come over here an kill your family an you get to fight em in your backyard an you got the risk of little tommy's sport car being blown up by a RPG! Yea exactly... A ... So yea i support this War! If we pull out now that would be a waste of money an time an lives an all the good things we've done over there! But yea anyways... Thanks for supporting our troops atleast you people do do that... An i really appreciate that... you guys don't realize how much it helps the troops out... just for saying you support them!
An Mom I love you with all my heart and you've been a really good mother to me... An reguardless of what anyone does or says atleast I know you will always have my Back an support me in whatever I choose to do! I love you Mom!
-- Posted by mkelley on Sat, Sep 29, 2007, at 2:19 AM
I truly understand that you support our troops and so do I, most like everyone else here. No one has said that they don't deserve our respect and support. We just think it is time for it to end and bring our troops home. In most wars we have something to gain by putting our troops in harms way...what is it that we hope to accomplish in Iraq? We have been there now for over 4 years and nothing is any better, if anything it is only getting worse.
The "War In Iraq" has not been a war since Mission Accomplished: We now have our troops in Iraq dying for the "Occupation Of Iraq" to the tune of 160,000 troops occupying Iraq, more now than when it was actually a war.
But even with that said this is not the fault of our troops, this is an administration problem.
I do hope your family members stay safe and return home very soon unharmed.
-- Posted by Dianatn on Thu, Sep 27, 2007, at 10:22 PM
I too am curious as to what freedom of ours they are over there protecting, I don't recall our freedom being in danger at all. Perhaps it is now, with the Patriot Act getting revisions.
and yes, that was such a touching video
-- Posted by Vindicated on Thu, Sep 27, 2007, at 10:19 PM
What freedom did we lose in Iraq? Better yet what freedoms have we LOST since this "war on terror"...
We had more rights before the war, and less since it began! I love the troops, but as has been said, there is no military solution. It will not work! I'll admit I wasn't brave enough to step up to the plate and go to war over oil. I respect our troops, without a doubt.
I THINK IT IS PERFECTLY OK TO LOVE AND SUPPORT TROOPS and want them HOME... and not in some country, where if our leaders want us to fight so bad, they should send the troops home and fight for themselves!
-- Posted by nascarfanatic on Thu, Sep 27, 2007, at 10:14 PM
I watched the video........I am a mother and wife of marines. My husband is still active in security and my youngest son just signed up for the USMC. He doesn't graduate until next June. My oldest son just got out of the marines a few years ago. I support our troops no matter what.....we all should and realize that those poeple over there are fighting for our freedom. They were the only ones brave enough to step up to the plate and do that for you and me and everyone in this country. God bless all families who go through what I go through every day.... 24-7!
-- Posted by jkelley on Thu, Sep 27, 2007, at 8:45 PM
I am so glad your son is getting to come home in 13 days. I will be glad when the day comes that all our troops are coming home.
-- Posted by Dianatn on Thu, Sep 27, 2007, at 2:41 PM
Powerful video. Sure made me cry. My son will be home in 13 days and a wake up. I am really looking forward to that day!!!
-- Posted by SoldierMom on Thu, Sep 27, 2007, at 12:52 PM
It is a great video and it is hard to watch it without tears. Although I may not support this war or our current administration I have always and always will support our troops.
And I still believe they need to be home instead of fighting war for greed.
-- Posted by Dianatn on Thu, Sep 27, 2007, at 11:30 AM
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Celebrate the changing seasons with a Pretty Spring Box from Eileen Hull. This easy spring craft looks great and makes a great gift!
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- Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Die – Box w/Flap
- Sizzix Little Sizzles Mat Board, White, 6" x 13"
- Papers by Scrappy Cat (Darice)
- Copic markers
- Magnets (BasicGrey)
- Brads
- Double-sided tape
- Stamp ink – turquoise, aqua
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- Fine yellow glitter
- Cut box from white matboard using Big Shot machine and Box w/Flap ScoreBoard die. This box may be used to hold ATC's, playing cards, crayons, gift cards and tons of other small items.
- Sketch out lightly in pencil a basic outline of a flower and leaves. Go over the lines with a fine-tip permanent marker. Draw the central image and then add in leaves and smaller flowers. The flap will cover a good part of the flower, so match the design on the flap to the box. Mine is not perfect, but it works!
- Erase pencil lines and color in the flowers and leaves with Copic markers in shades of greens and yellows. (You could also stamp a flower image with Staz-On or Memento inks pads and color).
- Line the box with paper. You will need to trim a tiny bit at each fold because the paper will buckle and shift, especially if you are using cardstock. There's too much bulk there for everything to lay flat. Cut off enough paper so that when you glue it back on, there is a little bit of white showing between sections.
- But BEFORE you put the paper on, adhere the magnet to the box flap. Apply double-sided tape to the wrong side of the flap magnet and to the right side of the other magnet. This will go inside the box and line up with the flap magnet. Adjust the positioning of the magnets until the box closes neatly. Now tape or glue the paper on the box flap.
- After outlining, coloring and blending the flowers and leaves, add a background. Lightly tap on dye-based inks with a sponge and softly color in the background.
- To assemble the box, add doubled-sided tape down the sides of the flap and two brads for decoration.
- Thought I was done but could not resist adding a line of fine glitter around the edges of the petals just for a little sparkle.
- I'm not sure yet what I will put in this box, but just looking at it reminds me that spring and the new life it brings is just around the corner!
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Employers Catch Up With the Rest of Us on Loving Social Media
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Many small businesses view social media as a necessity more than a distraction -- in 2009, just 14% of companies maintained a brand presence on Facebook, but today, 61% of companies have a professional Facebook page where they interact with customers, relay news or announce deals and discounts, according to a study conducted by staffing firm Spherion.
"It wasn't too many years ago we didn't allow people access to Facebook, and now most companies have someone assigned to bolster their presence on Facebook. Employees are often encouraged to go on frequently, engaging with customers and participating in the conversation of the day," says Sandy Mazur, division president for Spherion.
Small businesses understand that they have to be visible, Mazur says, but what they struggle with still is how to make social media accessible to a wider employee base. According to the Spherion study, 45% of employers believe access to social media allows their workers to be more productive, and 41% of employers use social media outlets to foster a team environment.
"Social media is here to stay, and employers are realizing that access to that information and data helps people to feel more connected in their personal lives, which increases that work/life balance that's so critical," Mazur says. "But right now companies are embracing it more externally than they are internally -- they know they need to have the visibility for their company, but they may not allow employees to have ready access to it during the work day."
At IT company Cisco
"We encourage the use of both internal and external social media by all our employees. We have developed practical guidelines on how to use corporate and personal accounts," Belding says. "There are some employees, like me, who use the same account for both personal and work-related communication. I think this actually humanizes the company and showcases personality. We think it's important to be able to blend the two."
Increasingly, companies are seeing that the restriction of Internet access hurts workplace morale, says John Martin, partner at the law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough.


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Transmeta Corp. said on Wednesday that it had begun to seek for an investor that would acquire the company. Transmeta said that after exploring a full range of strategic alternatives over the past few months and after strengthening its balance sheet, Transmeta plans to explore a possible sale of the company as a way to enhance value for all its stockholders.
"This year, as a result of our successful licensing activities, we will collect at least $265 million of cash payments for our intellectual property and patents. We expect that our intellectual property portfolio and licensing business, combined with our solid balance sheet, will be attractive to potential bidders, and we look forward to conducting a timely process to maximize value for our stockholders. As we proceed with the process, we remain focused on working with potential licensees, as well as developing and validating our IP blocks so that we can broaden our target market," said Les Crudele, president and chief executive of Transmeta.
Interested parties are invited to contact the Transmeta's financial advisor. The company noted that there can be no assurance that the process will result in a transaction that the company's board determines is in the best interests of the company or its stockholders. Further, there is no assurance concerning the type, form, structure, nature, results, timing or terms and conditions of any such transaction, even if a transaction does result from this process.
In a news press release today, Transmeta announced that it has entered into two agreements with Intel. The first agreement is a fully paid-up, non-exclusive technology licensing agreement that provides for Transmeta to deliver a copy of certain proprietary Transmeta computing technologies to Intel and grants to Intel a non-exclusive license to use and exploit those technologies commercially. The second agreement is an amendment to the previously announced settlement, release and license agreement that Transmeta and Intel entered into on December 31, 2007.
That settlement agreement granted to Intel a perpetual non-exclusive license to all Transmeta patents and patent applications, including any patent rights later acquired by Transmeta, now existing or as may be filed on or before December 31, 2017. Among other things, that settlement agreement provided for Intel to make five annual future payments to Transmeta of $20 million per year for each year from 2009 though 2013. This amendment accelerates Intel's remaining future payment obligations under the settlement agreement. The afreement will result in a one-time, non-refundable payment of $91.5 million in the third quarter of 2008.
"We are very pleased to have achieved the two agreements with Intel. Receiving these one-time payments strengthens our balance sheet and allows potential buyers to more accurately evaluate our company," Mr. Crudele said.
The company does not intend to release additional information about the status of this sale process but will publicly report all required information on a timely basis.
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William 'Kip' Kipling
ISHPEMING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – William "Kip" Kipling, age 89, of 160 Prospect, Ishpeming, passed away peacefully Saturday, February 23, 2013 at Marquette General Hospital.
William was born May 31, 1923 in Ishpeming to William & Helga (Wallberg) Nardi. He graduated from Ishpeming High School, class of 1941. William went on to serve his country in the U.S. Army during World War II entering in February of 1943. He served 20 months overseas in Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes (battle of the bulge), Rhineland and Central Europe. He was honorably discharged in November of 1945 with several citations and metals. Kip worked for the Upper Peninsula Power Company as a lineman for 23 years and as a line foreman for another 18 years, retiring in 1986 after 41 years of service.
He was a member of the Wesley United Methodist Church in Ishpeming. Kip enjoyed bowling, throwing horseshoes, woodworking: especially making bird houses. He was always there to help his sons with remodeling projects at their homes, as well as his own. He enjoyed time spent with his grandchildren playing cards, board games and working on puzzles. He loved animals especially dogs. Kip also liked visiting casinos and playing BINGO. He and Gerri never missed a Sunday supper at the Bonanza.
Kip is survived by his loving wife of 64 years Geraldine (Rice) Kipling, whom he married on May 8, 1948, 3 sons: Terry (Katherine) Kipling of Spring Lake, MI, James (Peggy) Kipling and Roger (Bonny) Kipling both of Ishpeming, 6 grandchildren: Heather (Mark) Pease, Eric (Betsy) Kipling, Brian Kipling, Michele (Jon) DeVold, Kara Kipling and Kristin Kipling, 7 great grandchildren: Jaren, Jayce, Katie, Ben, Annie, Maddux and Chas, a sister in law Alice Rice of Ishpeming along with numerous nieces and nephews.
Kip was preceded in death by his fathers William Nardi and Tom Kipling, his mother Helga (Wallberg) Kipling and infant son Tommy, 7 months old.
A memorial service will be held 1:00 p.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013 at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Ishpeming with Rev. Scott Lindenberg officiating. The family will greet relatives and friends on Saturday March 23rd at the Wesley United Methodist Church from 11:00 a.m. until the time of service at 1:00 p.m.
Military honors will be accorded by the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 380.
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I Do Not Use AccesskeysDecember 29
A standard is a standard is a standard. But what if those standards don't work as directed?
Over time, I've come to the conclusion that Accesskeys are more harmful than good. Until browsers allow a user to override a document's Accesskeys, I won't use them.
The idea is a simple one: by using the
accesskey="n" attribute on specific links in your HTML, you define n as a hot key that allows keyboard access to that particular link. Mark Pilgrim has more on the syntax and usage of Accesskeys.
WATS.ca has written a series of in-depth articles (Is it Worth it?, More Reasons…, Accesskey Alternatives) that go into the problems with this seemingly simple idea. Executive summary: key conflicts with existing browsers/operating systems/user macros prevent Accesskeys from doing the job as described.
The problem has been stewing in the back of my mind for a while. But it really hit home last week: I received an e-mail from someone complaining about a specific conflict that has been bothering me personally.
Go to the Zen Garden in any browser that allows the ALT+D key combination to select the address bar (IE and most Gecko browsers will do the trick, Safari will not). Try selecting the address bar from the keyboard. Instead of doing so, some browsers will select the fourth design from the list on the right, since that list has been assigned sequential keys from 'a' to 'h'.
The annoyance factor is high, and in some cases it may be downright harmful. Accesskeys are a good idea; too bad they're not practical.
Merry ChristmasDecember 23
Off to enjoy family and friends for the holidays. I leave you the gift of links! Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Festive Kwanzaa, and so on. Whatever you celebrate, and even if you don't, enjoy the rest of 2003.
- 8 Comic Books
- Andrea Piernock's festive Zen Garden entry.
- 7 Packs of Smokes
- Excellent Flash-based snowflake creator.
- 6 packs of Two-four
- 12 year old Alex Miller's playground. The next generation is already getting started!
- 5 Golden Toques
- I worked with Rafael Ebron on the mozilla.org redesign a few months back. He's competing in Ironman Canada 2004, and looking to raise $7,500 for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. A festive round of layoffs at AOL leaves him in a poor spot to meet the goal; consider giving a few bucks and spreading the word.
- 4 Pounds of Backbacon
- Mini iPods? Could it be? What makes me suspicious is the proposed 'body colours'. Call me a skeptic...
- 3 French Toast
- Flash paper airplanes. Arrow keys and space to control, 1-4 for special actions.
- 2 Turtlenecks
- Derek Powazek on learning to love the Tree
- And a Beer... in a tree
- Bob & Doug MacKenzie's original 12 Days. A Canadian Classic.
CSS: Copyrightable?December 18
Yesterday's post began with a soliloquy on the relative ease of theft that comes along with standards-based design. This is an issue I'm deeply concerned about, for obvious reasons. I've had to tackle some hard questions head on when it comes to CSS theft. I still don't have any answers, only opinions.
Some excellent discussion ensued on both topics yesterday, but there was some confusion between them. Let's free this topic from the specific case, and move along to the more general issue at hand.
CSS is a design language. It's the foundation of a site layout, just as much as PostScript is the foundation of a poster or brochure. Can the code itself be copyrighted?
Views expressed yesterday covered the whole spectrum. Here are some of the more interesting thoughts:
"I'd bet there haven't been many lawsuits about this yet, and once they start happening at least we'll have the precedents set by music sampling and remixing to go off. It'll be tricky to define exactly in what sense one owns a design and its code. After all, there are lots of 2-column, main content + sidebar pages out there, but each designer should be able to say that they own their particular implementation." §
"A layout has no visible parts. It's just how you use the space in the window. If I build a layout with a two-column header, a three-column content area and a two-column footer then there's no way for me to tell someone else that they can't do the same thing." §
"It's an analogy that's been used before, but CSS is nothing more than the 'grammar' of web design." §
"Of course you can't copyright one

selector, or one

selector… in music, I can't really copyright a G or an A, or even a C Major chord… (though John Cage's estate insists that all silence is under his copyright)
"It is the combinatory effect of notes that make music, words that make poetry, selectors that make CSS." §
"…to raise CSS implementations from tech grammar to a copywritable collection of language will require a test in court to recognize it as such." §
And I'm just going to quote this next one in its entirety, since I find it brilliantly well-reasoned. Thanks Raena!
I took a photo of a sculpture in the city once. I didn't make my camera, the sculpture I photographed, the film in the camera, or the paper it was printed on. I didn't come up with the theories behind use of light or composition. Other photographers use all those same tools all the time. There have to be thousands if not millions of photographs of sculptures, and undoubtedly there are plenty of other photographs of that very same sculpture.
Yet I have every right to copyright that photograph.
You say that a CSS file lacks originality in the sense that CSS and XHTML are the 'grammar' for a Web design and everyone else can use the same tools. What you're ignoring is that it is the whole, the end product, that is original work. Thought has been put into the composition of the CSS file, even though the designer doesn't happen to be the inventor of the CSS spec.
"You can copyright a slogan, but not the sentence structure or the words that go to make it up."
Actually, you can't generally copyright a slogan, just as you cannot copyright a title, name, or short phrase: it's too small. You can protect your slogan with a trademark if it's connected to a product or a service, but there is a minimum amount of authorship.
In most cases, copyright cannot be placed on something without sufficient originality. What cannot be copyrighted:
- anything that isn't fixed (ie written, saved to disk, recorded)
- an idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery (that's what patents are for)
- "useful articles" (objects with a utilitarian purpose and, interestingly, clothing)
- small works, like a really short phrase or a few words
- a compilation of works, unless some original thought was put into the arrangement (no to the phone book, yes to World's Greatest Beer-Drinking Songs)
- it cannot simply be a mechanical reproduction of something (I can't copyright that Chemical Brothers CD I just burned).
All else is deemed to have sufficient originality to be considered copyrightable. I'm not convinced that a CSS file with the complexity of the Fleshbot spec doesn't count. It is an expression, done in a particular way to create a particular result, even if that result is similar to other works.
"Let's face it — a CSS file is an hour or two and a text-editor."
Bzzt, wrong answer. That photo I mentioned earlier was a thirty second snap-decision to go stand someplace, squint through a little window and press a button. How much effort is required for original work to deserve protection? Three hours? Twelve? Ten minutes, but only if it's really really really hard?
In US caselaw, the 'sweat of the brow' argument was rejected several years ago in Feist Publications v Rural Telephone Co. As well as pointing out that a phone book isn't creative or original enough to constitute a copyrightable work, the 6th Circuit ruled that the amount of effort one puts into creating something has no bearing on the originality of the end result.
"Well, in that case i think it might apply to cases in which CSS is used in unusual, innovative, original ways…"
So it's only the unusual, innovative, original, oh-my-god type stuff that deserves protection by copyright? Oh-oh, there goes the protection for about half of today's pop music.
A work doesn't have to be any good to be protected by copyright. It just needs to have an element of original authorship.
But what about you, Dave Shea? What do you think?
The community surrounding web standards and CSS particularily thrives on sharing. I can easily pick apart the latest Jon Hicks or Dan Rubin masterpiece, figure out how they produced those amazingly tight layouts, and learn from their trial, error, and experience. Would I ever try to duplicate one? Hell no.
A layout is an element of the overall design. Obviously two people can arrive at two very similar layouts independently. A couple of
18px #FFCC00 headers aren't going to cause anyone's eyes to blink. But there are cues that a layout has borrowed more than it should — recognize any of these, for example? You can run through a laundry list of reasons why you do, even though they have been changed dramatically. (I'll give you a hint: 1, 2, 3, 4)
There really is no legal precedent at this point to say what's right and what's wrong when it comes to web design. CSS files are low-hanging fruit; they are out there for public consumption, they're easy to use. Does that make it right to use them? You know the answer to that.
I'm all for the spirit of sharing, within limits. One who chooses to use another's work should always grant the original creator the respect they deserve, be it monetary, or just simply ensuring they have authorization to use the work in the way they wish. If you ask me nicely, you might just be amazed at how kind I can be.
That's the way I believe the world should work. Pity that it doesn't.
The Case of Jackson vs. GawkerDecember 17
Not that I don't have enough of my own rip-off problems to contend with, given the handful of new sites based on Garden designs each day...
The downside that hasn't yet been explored, with regards to standards-based design, is that separation of content and presentation makes it entirely too easy to steal one and not the other.
When it comes down to it, structural elements don't change a whole heck of a lot from site to site. A few headers, some paragraphs, and extraneous container
divs. The design is neatly packaged up and ready to go in another file that doesn't bring along pesky things like, you know, identifying text (which is easily discovered on Google) or links back to the original content creator, or the like. Sure, a few images and
ids need to be changed, but that's a trifle.
Now, why would someone rip off another? That is a question to ask each individual offender, but the common reason nets to lack of knowledge and/or talent. There are very few deviations from this general rule.
Which is why it's so damn confusing when you see something like what Nick Denton's publishing empire has allegedly done. A well respected company doing great things in the on-line publishing space, run by a dot-com millionaire, appears to have ripped off a college kid.
Prude alert: some links on the referenced pages point toward sites featuring adult-themed material. Proceed with discretion.
Others have covered it in far more detail than I will, but the basic summary appears to be that Noel Jackson and Joe Clark approached Gawker Media shortly after the launch of its latest offering, Fleshbot. They had built a nicely-compliant XHTML/CSS version of the site, and were offering Jackson's services in compensation. Gawker politely told them no, then used it anyway. And then took the code base and applied it to their other holdings as well—Gawker itself and Gizmodo.
Yes, Jackson provided free work without a contract in place, in hopes of landing more. This is called spec work, and regardless of my own personal views on the practice, it happens frequently in the design/advertising world. And Gawker had every right to say no thanks, and not pay for the work. But that wouldn't allow them to turn around and use it free of charge. It's still Jackson's work. It would appear in this case Jackson did offer the code free for use on Fleshbot. But that's only one site, of the three it ended up on.
It's just a collection of code, right? You can't copyright CSS? Photographs are just a collection of pixels. Novels are just a collection of letters. Music is just a collection of sound waves. The work is what matters here, and the work is unquestionably Jackson's.
Denton has posted transcripts of IM conversations with Jackson on Jackson's site. It appears that he has trouble differentiating between one site and three, and in the process shows that Jackson had tried to resolve the issue before taking it to the public space.
It's a shame that an otherwise savvy company has seemingly made such a public blunder. Let's hope this can be quickly resolved in a manner satisfactory to both parties.
How to Conceive a LayoutDecember 16
I don't normally respond to CSS help requests, instead referring the asker to the css-discuss mailing list. It's mainly a time issue, but I'm also of the opinion that you can't learn if you have someone else doing it for you. I've never been one to ask for help if I could figure it out for myself. With Google and a few good books, I believe everyone can figure out CSS. It's not easy, it takes time, but it is do-able.
But the other afternoon I got involved in a dialogue and decided to answer a few questions anyway. Here's a patched-together result, which is very basic and easy to take for granted once you've learned it (and of limited use to most who read this site), but incredibly difficult to figure out if you haven't.
How do you build a dual-column layout?
There's no mechanism to do this specifically today. CSS-2 tables would be great, if you could use them. Unfortunately, you can't thanks to current browser support.
So the method is to hack. And hacks are just that: they work, but they're not the best solution. The following explanation will [hopefully] make sense, but it will sound ridiculous and over-wrought. Rightfully so, but we still have to compromise to make things work.
Your XHTML would, logically, look like this:

 logo and whatever

 navigation

 content

The first thing to do is address the top bar.
#topBar { }
That piece of CSS corresponds directly with

, since '#' is the symbol for an
id. Similarily, if I'd used
class="topBar" then I could use
.topBar in the CSS, as classes are symbolized by periods.
Next, to assign a height:
#topBar { height: 100px; }
Inches and centimetres aren't very useful on-screen. Pixels, symbolized by
px, are better for this sort of thing. To give it a background color:
#topBar { height: 100px; background-color: #991122; }
The sidebar is pretty easy too. Instead of giving it a height, you'd assign a width:
#sideBar { width: 200px; background-color: #996600; }
The tricky part now is the content. Since the sidebar is on the left, the best way to bring the content area up beside it is to pull the sidebar out of the document flow.
What does this mean? An HTML document is structured linearly, and by default all elements will display in the same order as they are listed in the markup. It's very rare that you'd want to leave the elements displaying this way, so there are tricks involving absolute positioning and
float that allow you to do something about it.
The trick is to remember that when you remove an item from the flow, any influence it had on the position of other elements disappears. Which means that in this case, we need to rig a layout where
#sideBar won't influence
#contentArea's position.
#sideBar { width: 200px; background-color: #996600; float: left; }
You'll see at this point that
#contentArea will overlap
#sideBar. This is expected, since
#sideBar no longer affects
#contentArea's position. So how
do we stop that? A pretty simple fix: push
#contentArea over to the right by the exact width of
#contentArea { margin-left: 200px; background-color: #FFDDAA; }
And there you have it, a two-column layout with a header. See how it comes together on this sample page. There are issues with this layout, particularily a) if you want to add a footer, and b) if you want to assign a background colour to either column that extends the length of the page, instead of the length of the column's content. There are ways to do both. Perhaps a follow-up will come later that explores these methods; I have a working layout that does both at once, and isn't dependent on the content size of either column. I'll try to pare that down to the basics and explore it sooner or later.
Accessible Image ReplacementDecember 12
Image replacement is back in the news—Levin Alexanders' 'Graphical Headings' is going around again. (note that Tom Gilder also brought it to our attention around the same time)
Classic FIR has three problems, which I summarized this summer:
- Screenreaders don't read content hidden with
display: none;
- A superfluous
element is introduced
- People browsing with CSS on, but images turned off don't see anything.
Levin's method solves two of these problems, namely 1 and 3, but introduces a new one: transparent GIFs are unusable, due to text beneath showing through the transparent gaps. There are a few ways around this, by setting text colour and size to be all but invisible, but it's still a problem. The code is also far more complicated than it should be.
Gilder/Levin Method
Image Replacement
/* css */
h2 {
width: 329px;
height: 25px;
position: relative;
h2 span {
background: url(sample.gif) no-repeat;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
Alternatively, there are two other techniques available now that solve problems 1 and 2 but leave 3 dangling. Specifically, Phark Revised (due to a Safari bug) and Radu Darvas' new variation announced in a Web-Graphics post. Both use relatively simple code, and test well across browsers:
Image Replacement
/* css */
#header {
text-indent: -5000px;
background: url(sample.gif) no-repeat;
height: 25px;
Revised Image Replacement
/* css */
#header {
background: url(sample.gif) no-repeat top right;
width: 2329px;
height: 25px;
margin: 0 0 0 -2000px;
So here's where we're at. We haven't managed to knock off all three problems with one unifying method yet. There's a choice, and which pill you choose says a lot about your priorities.
You take the red pill, and you contend with a tangle of code, but you guarantee equal access to everyone. You take the blue pill, and your code remains simple and elegant, but you cut off a tiny percentage of your users who might just, might just be surfing with CSS enabled but no images. It's said to happen more commonly in European countries where dial-up access is metered, but that's all we have for statistics.
Either way, we all know by now that using
display: none; is out. We haven't got this problem totally licked yet, but we're two thirds of the way there. Not bad for a technique that has been in the public eye for only 9 months now.
News and LinksDecember 11
It's that time of year again. The holiday season must mean that WestCiv is offering its online CSS course for free, and what do you know, they sure are. The introduction is available for another few days, so if you're looking to learn or brush up on your CSS, this is the place to be for the next few months. §Speaking of Christmas, you may have noticed the festive touch on this site as well. Thanks to Keith Robinson for the inspiration . § In no particular order: Andy Budd has a few new CSS-based sites you may not have caught yet. Paul Scrivens of the great CSS Vault throws the weblog format for a loop . TBWA Vancouver . View source. You know, this CSS stuff might just be catching on. (TBWA Vancouver is the local chapter of the global ad agency) A somewhat different take on navigation, found by Adrian Holovaty. Enhanced Structural Markup with Javascript . This is what Javascript should be used for: progressive enhancement, instead of creating dependencies. Excellent article by Simon Willison. Keith Robinson also tackles the concept of redesign in a thoughtful way . Even a small change like, oh, adding a font-adjust button is not without its share of headaches. IE vulnerability — spoofing the domain name in the address bar . Grab Firebird now if you haven't, it's really quite good. And, you know, secure. Photoshop Tennis . Er, Lightboxing . Well, Coudal's in on the latter, so we'll call it 'inspiration'. Whatever, Veer still has the best catalogues ever. And of course, how could I forget Shaun Inman's own Designologue . You know Shaun Inman . Yeah, that guy . (thanks ste ) Rolling Stone's Steve Jobs Interview . I've yet to read it, bookmarking for my own linking pleasure. It's to the point where the history of type is a strange and mysterious beast to those who have known nothing but the digital age. Frederic Goudy type catalogue from 1914. Beautifully anachronistic. § Incredibly heartfelt thanks to all who have contacted me in the past week and a half after the announcement . I will shed a little more light soon. I've turned down the various Nigerian opportunities , but I appreciate the thought, boys. § ]]>
Browser StatsDecember 10
Where do you go for accurate, up to date numbers for current browser share?
There aren't many centralized resources aggregating this sort of thing on a wide scale anymore. Thanks to lazy developers who have written bad detection scripts over the past five years, plenty of browsers identify themselves as IE anyway, which makes tracking more of an art than a science.
One of my old monthly visits was thecounter.com's browser stats, which stopped being updated in May. Due to the distributed nature of their code, I always considered this a fairly accurate cross-section of the web.
Chuck Upsdell is still going strong after just about 300 weekly editions. However, as always, his stats are culled from 4 different sources with completely different target audiences, and while may be enough to spot trends, aren't as representational as they need to be for generalizing.
There are a handful of others that pop up after a quick Google, the most notable being an older page of Christina Wodtke's. But nothing screams definitive to me.
Aside from sifting through logs on servers under your control, are there any other resources out there worth a bookmark?
CSS is VisualDecember 4
Quite a high-threshold discussion happening on fellow Canadian Jeremy Shield's weblog.
Nothing really too new here, except for the observation that, with everyone's help of course, we've more or less made it impossible to argue that CSS design is inherently ugly.
…tableless design transforms the web into a library and less of a visual spectacle…
This is an interesting point, since, yeah actually—
that's exactly what's happening. And it's good, remarkably good, for this to happen. Not only are table-less sites not boring, they're accessible. Keep in mind that all CSS Zen Garden examples validate to WAI AAA-level accessibility, although the individual designs can be more and less accessible depending on techniques used. Not only are they accessible, search engines love them. The Zen Garden is insanely high in Google thanks in part to well marked-up content. Not only are they search engine optimized, but they are, contrary to what you say, far less bandwidth hungry than tables. The average conversion of a site from tables to CSS-based chops the HTML file size roughly in half, reduces the number of server requests necessary, and generally reduces the number of images needed. All for the same design.
Anyway, the rest is worth a look. §
update: Okay, so I guess we're not talking about that. Looks like the comments got hijacked into a thread on triple-A accessibility instead. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Discuss. §
New FindsDecember 3
My top five new reads that I think everyone else should be reading too:
- random($foo) — frequently updated with links and commentary, always interesting. Tech and culture.
- paranoidfish — great commentary (if, sometimes, beyond my level) and great links. Tech.
- die puny humans — Uh, yet more frequent links and commentary. Culture. (Twisted, Good.)
- 1976 Design — Fellow WaSP Dunstan Orchard's quirky design weblog. Dunstan is a character, good times are guaranteed to all.
- DW: What's New — not technically a new find, but a great news source that probably doesn't get enough credit. Run by Nick Finck and other DW authors (myself included, occasionally, when I remember)
I'm relying on blo.gs these days. News aggregators just aren't my bag, baby. All I need is a list of who has updated recently, I have no need to take content outside of the original site's context. One day I'll look into publishing my complete list—it's well over a hundred by now.
I've noticed some people I read out of obligation; I try to keep updated on peripheral things like Atom and social software and the general tech business. Others I'm thrilled to see fresh content from, and relish reading every single time.
Who are your favourites? Who do you keep coming back to?
ASP to PHP, with MT to Boot!December 2
Step right up, step this way. Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you the amazing journey from one server-side technology to another. You'll be amazed, you'll be awed, you'll laugh, you'll cry. You'll... okay, so my writing style needs to calm down a touch.
I've been working on this on and off for months now, and I meant to have it up far earlier than this. Some of the final details are fuzzy at this point, but the bulk of it is on target.
This is the process I went through when upgrading my Movable-Type powered site from IIS (and ASP) to Apache (and PHP), from start to finish. For the benefit of Google, and you the reader, I'll try to spare no detail. Much the same as I ended up blessing the kind souls who have written up their own experiences, one day I hope someone will find the exact answer they need somewhere in this.
Why I Switched
I originally set up mezzoblue on an IIS host because ASP is what I knew. I am not a programmer, but the odd time I needed to fool around with code it had to be something that I could easily use.
When I created BlueSpark (a free, light-weight ASP-based content management system: think server-side Notepad) I realized even my knowledge of that was only rudimentary at best. So reasons to stay on IIS quickly eroded, and I found myself wanting to get into PHP about two or three months ago. Why PHP over ASP? Momentum, baby. All the cool toys are written in PHP, and more importantly, a large chunk of them are open.
I'm no anti-Microsoft zealot, but I see huge advantages to working with open source software. Now that I'm actually on an Apache server I can say that custom .htaccess files are a hugely important thing to have, and IIS's handling of the same is positively archaic in comparison. I'm sure there will be plenty of other little gems I'll discover as I play more.
How I Learned
So cut to about a month ago. In my copious, vast amounts of spare time I started thumbing through a Peachpit press book by Larry Ullman: "PHP and MySQL For Dynamic Web Sites." If you're familiar with C/C++/Javascript syntax, you'll easily breeze through the first 50 or 60 pages. In fact, I skipped to Appendix A which covers installation, and with a little help from the manuals I managed to get Apache, PHP, and MySQL up and running on my spare Windows laptop one evening.
By the time I was a hundred pages into the book, I'd already started working on converting mezzoblue. There aren't many scripts, and a lot of the work involved rebuilding my main three server-side includes. I hadn't really dealt much with the content pages within, I had only laid the foundation.
What to Do When Things Go South, or: Motivation
And it was about this point my IIS server began acting up. Reliability decreased over a good week, and then one day things just stopped working about 80% of the time. It was down, then up, then down again. My host's site suffered the same problems, so I couldn't even file a claim to see what was going on. Needless to say, when I finally got an answer it was less than satisfactory.
So I started investigating hosts. I need generous bandwidth and storage space, but I don't use a lot of server processor time. Unfortunately, the amount of bandwidth I use gets lumped into higher-end accounts. But Matt Mullenweg made me an offer I literally couldn't refuse, so I jumped.
Static Conversion
But that's only the beginning, of course. I had a host. Now to port Movable Type, and rebuild my site on Apache. Well, let's just say this wasn't as easy as I had hoped it would be, but it didn't turn into the disaster I had feared it might.
I had backed up all my files from my IIS server earlier in the week, and I was irritable enough with the downtime that I decided to jump in head first and initiate the domain transfer. I put up my pre-built PHP page with an apology message for the next day or two of downtime, and went to work. I started with the static content, that was easy enough. I plugged in my new iBook and grabbed a copy of BBEdit Lite, and started re-linking.
The nice thing about server-side includes, of course, is that all your standard site-wide bits like headers and footers and sidebars and the like can be stored externally in their own individual files. The upshot in this case is that a lot of my static content looked like so:
inlude files, content, include files
Not a lick of content had to be changed, all I had to do was re-link the new include files, which, if you've been paying attention, I had already built last month. Copy, paste, upload, test. Copy, paste, upload, test. That was a fun evening, at least in comparison to what happened next.
Movable Type, or, How to Make a Bad Thing Worse
Now here's where I hit the big snag. Equal parts assumption and hope had led me to try uploading the entire Movable Type install to my new server. After all, MT is Perl-based and should work without a hitch. I made sure server-detection in my FTP program was automatic (since it's very important you're not uploading .cgi files as binaries), dropped the works onto the server, re-linked Perl and the appropriate user directories, set my permissions, and loaded the MT interface.
Well, not nothing, but not a lot more: Error 500, internal server error. Not helpful. I double-checked my paths and my permissions, then tried again. Still nothing. In a fit of desparation I dropped one of the .db files into a text editor and noticed that there were paths in those consistent with my old IIS install—not a comforting thing at this point.
Remember how about I stated I'm no programmer? I was stuck at this point. Luckily, I have what we commonly refer to as 'problem-solving skills' so I came up with a few more plans. You may laugh, you may cringe, but at this point they seemed worth a shot.
Next up on the list: re-installing MT, then dropping the old data directory,
db, on top of the new install in hopes that the interface would just recognize the old data and think everything was okay. But I couldn't login to Movable Type after doing it. I reverted back to the freshly installed
db directory, and was able to login fine. I tried selectively dumping a couple of the larger .db files into the new directory, but had no luck doing that either.
DNS Trickery
So I still had the archives, but no way of getting at them. Hmm. I was smart enough not to cancel my prior hosting account, so I grit my teeth and moved my DNS back to the old server.
A day or two of waiting for propogation, then I was able to log in to my old MT interface, manually export my entries and comments thanks to Six Apart's clear thinking about not locking users in, save my customized templates, then switch DNS back to the new server.
At this point the cards started stacking back in my favour again. My new server gives me a static IP, so I was able to point my copies of Firebird and Safari toward it without waiting for the propogation. I set to work getting the old entries imported into my fresh install, and added my templates through the interface.
Which is not to say this process wasn't without its share of trouble—even though I temporarily pointed Movable Type toward the IP instead of the domain, I wasn't able to access everything. When saving entries or comments, for example, the refresh would go to a non-existent page on mezzoblue.com. This was only a minor inconvenience though, since the data was saved regardless. While waiting for the rest of the world to catch up, I was hard at work plugging the holes and making sure things would be up and running by the time the DNS change went through.
At this point I made a valiant attempt to switch from Movable Type's default Berkely DB system to MySQL, since that was the other half of the equation. However, since I needed a quick fix, my inexperience with the latter got in the way and I eventually conceded that to a later date. Bigger fish to fry, after all.
So while I showed some foresight, the process was hardly as smooth as it could have been. For a few days, I wasn't able to do much in the way of posting new content, and a static page greeted visitors to the site. Effectively, I was knocked offline as I waited for the jump to and from and then to my new host, although during that time most were still able to access one server or another.
I've been on Apache for two months now, and I couldn't see myself going back. I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the things I can do, but it's comforting to know that if I need to, they're there. At least I'm in the happy spot of being able to blame shortcomings on lack of brainpower, rather than lack of horsepower. That, in my books, is the easiest of the two to fix.
Dispatch the Flying MonkeysDecember 1
And here's the extra special edition wherein it's announced that for a limited time only, I am on the job market! Yes, that's right, the holidays are fast approaching, and what better way to cope with a killer Visa bill than a shiny new spot at a great company?
I'm looking for a full time design gig in Vancouver, B.C. I want to work with a forward-thinking firm in virtually any industry that's relevant. Be it custom design, online media, software development, or any other, I'm open to suggestion. You know my work, but much more is available upon request. Serious inquiries can be sent via this site's contact form.
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3 Things You Should Know About Small Business: Jan. 9
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What's happening in small business today?
1. Small-business confidence up -- barely. It should come as no surprise that small-business owner confidence didn't have a large rebound in the final month of 2012. According to the National Federation of Independent Business' Small Business Optimism Index , while owner optimism rose 0.5 from November's historically low report to 88 -- it was the second-lowest reading (behind November) since March 2010.
December's poor report resulted largely from a deterioration of labor market components, and the surprising percentage of owners who still expect business conditions to worsen in the next six months, the NFIB says.
"The 11th-hour
December's reading is certainly not typical during a recovery, NFIB says. Seventy percent of owners surveyed characterized the current period as a bad time to expand; one in four of them cite political uncertainty as the top reason. Taxes and regulation rank as the top two business problems, with "poor sales" as a close third, the index found.
2. Small-business lending by big banks jumps in December. Loans approved by large banks to small companies rose 13% last month, according to the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index . The 14.9% approval rate at big banks (those with more than $10 billion in assets) is the highest recorded by the index and marks a significant jump from the approval rate in November as well as the 9.7% approval rate in the year-earlier period.
"After a hiccup in November, big banks are coming back strong into the small-business lending game," said Rohit Arora, Biz2Credit co-founder and CEO, who oversaw the research. "When we look at how difficult it was to secure capital from large banks a year ago, we can see just how much the lending landscape has improved during all of 2012."
Community bank approval rates also increased in December, climbing to 49.8% from 49.2% in November and 47.1% a year earlier, the report found.
That said, credit union loan approvals to small businesses slipped once again to 47.6% from 48.4% in November - the seventh consecutive monthly drop in approvals. Alternative lenders - accounts receivable financers, merchant cash advance lenders, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI), microlenders and others - dipped for a second straight month to 63.8%, down from 64.5% the previous month.


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by Anton Shilov
Seagate Technology, a leading maker of hard disk drives, and LaCie, a manufacturer of consumer storage products, today announced an exclusive agreement with the intent for Seagate to acquire a controlling interest in LaCie. For around $186 in cash, Seagate will get one of the most popular maker of external hard drives and will ensure that going forward only its hard drives will be used inside LaCia-branded products.
The transaction would combine two highly complementary product and technology portfolios, adding LaCie's line of premium branded consumer storage solutions, network-attached storage solutions and software offerings to Seagate's array of mainstream consumer storage products. The combination would accelerate Seagate's growth strategy in the expanding consumer storage market, particularly in Europe and Japan, and add strong engineering and software development capabilities, as well as relationships with several key retailers.
Seagate has offered to purchase from Philippe Spruch, LaCie's chairman and chief exec, and his affiliate, all of their shares, representing 64.5% of the outstanding shares of LaCie. Following receipt of governmental approvals1 and the close of this transaction, Seagate would commence an all-cash simplified tender offer (followed as the case may be by a squeeze-out procedure) to acquire the remaining outstanding shares in accordance with the French regulations.
Seagate has offered Mr. Spruch and his affiliate €4.05 per share in cash, minus a potential adjustment depending on the cash and debt position of LaCie at closing. This price may be increased by a possible price supplement of 3% in the event that the threshold of 95% of the shares and voting rights of LaCie would be reached by Seagate within 6 months following closing, resulting in a maximum potential price per LaCie share of €4.17. Without the price supplement, the offer currently values LaCie at an approximate €146 million, or $186 million total equity value, including acquired net cash of approximately €49 million, or $65 million, as of March 31, 2012. The €4.05 per share price represents a premium of 29% to LaCie's average closing stock price over the 30 trading days ended May 22, 2012.
Following the close of the sale of his shares to Seagate, Mr. Spruch would join Seagate and lead the company's consumer storage products organization. Reporting to him would be Patrick Connolly, who currently serves as vice president and general manager of Seagate's retail group, as well as Pierre van der Elst, who currently serves as deputy general manager of LaCie.
The transaction is expected to be neutral to Seagate's fiscal 2013 earnings per share.
"Seagate has a strong commitment to the growing consumer storage market and bringing the most dynamic products to market. LaCie has built an exceptional consumer brand by delivering exciting and innovative high-end products for many years. This transaction would bring a highly complementary set of capabilities to Seagate, significantly expand our consumer product offerings, add a premium-branded direct-attached storage line, strengthen our network-attached storage business line and enhance our capabilities in software development. We are also excited that Philippe, who is a true visionary and leader in the consumer storage business, would join Seagate to run our consumer storage products organization," said Steve Luczo, Seagate chairman, president and chief executive officer.
The transaction is subject to regulatory approval in the United States (antitrust filing), France (approval of foreign investments by the ministry of dinance) and other jurisdictions (antitrust filing in Germany) and to other customary closing conditions.


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