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Understanding the Creative Commons license

photo credit: manu contreras
Whenever you create something (take a photograph, make a logo, write an article, etc) the copyright for this product is yours, whether you express it or register it or not. No one can use this product without your (usually written) permission.
However, now people start seeing more benefits of sharing their work [...]

Building your own website with XHTML and CSS - Some basics

In the introduction of this series we talked about separating the content of your website from the presentation by creating the content in XHTML and style it with CSS.
Tools
Before we continue, let’s make sure we have the right tools to get this done properly. You actually don’t need much:

A plain text editor - Plain text [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Just a quick note to wish everyone a lot of romance, love and fun on this day!
I think this is my shortest post ever!

Building your own website with XHTML and CSS - Introduction

I’ve been preparing to write a series on this subject for a long time, but I kept putting it off. Even though there are numerous websites out there with information on how to build a CSS website, I believe it’s important to still write this series for a number of reasons:

This will be my own [...]

Ruby, Rails and such

A while ago I started to get interested in Ruby, or so I thought. I found out that it’s actually Ruby on Rails (RoR) I fell in love with.
I’ve dedicated some of my time to studying the ins and outs of RoR. There seem to be a lot of information about RoR in blogs and [...]

Linux keeps surprising me

The more I use Linux, the more I fall in love with it.
Recently I decided to remove Xubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn completely, format the hard drive and install Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon. Before I did, I made sure I made a backup of my home folder and my data folder. After installation I just copied [...]

Updating my glossary

As I wrote in Blogging Notes I discovered another importance for having a glossary: it can be listed when people look for definitions on Google using the define: operator if you have the definition in your glossary.
I am going through my whole site now to see if there are words that may be unclear to [...]

Google Earth is getting crowded

When I started blogging, on A few good notes I used Google Earth a couple of times to give readers an idea of the locations I was writing about. I wrote about an area, created markers on GE to show where it is, and upload the kmz files.
People can add there own pictures and links [...]

What I’ve been up to

It had been a while since I wrote in my blogs. There has been a lot that has been happening in my life that influenced this.
The move
On August 25 my wife Barbara and I moved to our neighboring country Guyana. She got a Deputy Program Manager position at the Caricom Secretariat. In the period before [...]

cPanel 11 up and running

I finally got to installing cPanel 11 today. I did run in to the same problems I described before. No mails were accepted from external servers. In the exim_mainlog I was getting “unrouteable mail domain” rejections, and mails were bouncing.
I searched the cPanel forums for answers, asked for help, but all the advise I was [...]

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