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While reading this “review” of SUSE Linux 9.3 (actually looks like more of an ad, which probably shouldn’t surprise since it is hosted on Novell’s website), I came across this screenshot that did give me pause (that’s Shakespearean for you!) Having used OpenOffice 1.x (and its predecessors, since the then-free StarOffice version 5.x), I must say that it actually (and finally!) looks visually appealing! According to the website, version 2.0 is still in its final stages of beta testing, but…

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It’s been some 3 months now since I moved from my Blogger blog to this WordPress one.. gosh, time sure passes really quickly! Before I know it, it’ll already be the Novemember holidays again! Haha.. Anyhow, one of things I never got around to doing was to document why exactly I went to WordPress, and (probably) more importantly how exactly I went about doing it. And I never could seem to get around to doing it. 🙁 Luckily, this blogger…

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No, I’m not talking about Sarong Party Girls 😀 but Simple PHP Gallery. A little too simple perhaps, since it’s a script that doesn’t really do anything other than display a gallery of pictures uploaded into directories on the server. Also, since it doesn’t have any way to upload pictures, you’ll have to upload them on your own via FTP – which might be a little limiting for some people. Anyway, anyone looking to integrate a light gallery into a…

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Although I’d set up a demo site for Plume CMS after quite a bit of research, I continued to try out other multi-blog systems to see see which would be best for deployment at my school. The one I’ve found to be the most promising is pLog. Sure, its user interface (and available templates so far) might not be as pretty as Plume CMS’, but it has some nifty features including a summary page. I’ve even deployed it for some…

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