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I found a theme for WordPress that I like. To give my site a consistent look and feel, I am utilizing the theme contained in the WordPress themes folder throughout my site which includes close to 800 HTML pages of technical tutorials. Utilizing one set of stylesheets minimizes the workload and increases the consistency of the appearance of the site. Update the WordPress CSS files and the rest of the site changes to match. One of the challenges I face is that the static HTML page portion of the InetDaemon.Com site is relatively large. As I said earlier, InetDaemon.Com has over 800 pages–and it is still growing. I can’t possibly change all the files by hand in a timely manner. Thus, an automated process is called for.
Continue readingTime Warner announced that AOL will Get the Boot From Time Warner by Year-End. Its about time this merger ended.
Time Warner was built on the broadcast television model: passive viewers force-fed advertising and content of TW’s choice. AOL was built on chat, instant messaging and multi-player games: interactive participants in creating a shared social ‘media experience’ online in real time–that’s what Steve Case used to call “building a community”. AOL and Time Warner had nothing in common, save the prospect of generating ‘shareholder value’ from the merger of the century.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment act has the potential to hammer another nail in the coffin of dial-up ISP’s like AOL. More than $4 billion will be spent to subsidize extension of the communications networks into rural America.