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A Decade of David

Saturday March 13, 2010

If you happened to scroll to the very bottom of this site today — Saturday, March 13th, 2010 — you would have seen this note in the footer:

It is very, very hard to believe that I have been blogging for ten years.
My very first post was not very interesting. At the time I was [...]

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The Best Damn Kudu He Can Be

Tuesday January 5, 2010

“My favorite animal at the Zoo is the lesser kudu. You have to admire an animal with a name like that, laboring as he must in the shadow of the greater kudu. It must be like having an older brother who excelled at sports and academics in school, to whom you have always been compared [...]

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Google Hates Me

Tuesday December 15, 2009

For some mysterious reason the Google PageRank™ of this website dropped to zero about a year and a half ago.
I really have no idea why. It didn’t coincide with any major design changes and I didn’t do anything black hat here (or even white hat) that would have caused that.
Every few months I think [...]

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There Are Places I Remember

Thursday June 25, 2009

There are places I remember
In my life … though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments …
I miss my grandmother’s house sometimes. It’s interesting (to me, at least) because I’m not normally one to “miss” anything or anyone. People come, people go. [...]

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Hong Kong Phooey
Huckleberry Hound
Captain Caveman
Mr. Peabody
The Blue Anteater (from Pink Panther)

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Blog Anniversary

Saturday March 28, 2009

By the time you read this post, I will have been blogging (more or less) continuously on davidgagne.net for 3300 days. I somehow managed to miss my nine year anniversary two weeks ago, so I thought I should say something about my 3300th day.

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Once you’ve been blogging for a few years, you’re going to realize that your archives page is huge. For the casual one-post-each-week blogger, it might be okay to display the titles or even excerpts of posts on your archives page. But what about you and your twenty-posts-per-day blogging habit? It won’t be [...]

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In the last five or six years I have used almost exclusively only two web hosts: DreamHost and Network Redux. I consider myself an “informed source” when it comes to the reliability of web hosts: I have hosted well over 3,000 websites with these two companies since 2000. If you are [...]

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WordPress Wednesday: Ping Services

Wednesday February 11, 2009

Every time you post an entry, you want the world to know. If you tell it to do so, the WordPress engine will notify several site update services with a ping to let them know that there’s something new on your site. On the “Settings” panel, at the bottom of the “Write” tab, [...]

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WordPress Wednesday: Scheduled Posts

Wednesday February 4, 2009

There are dozens of awesome features in the WordPress CMS, but one of my favorites is the ability to schedule a post for future publication. You can write a birthday wish to someone months in advance so you don’t have to worry about forgetting. You can plan to have an anniversary note appear [...]

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