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From TechGnome’s World comes this static pages in WordPress plugin: StaticEez.

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Can this be true? Homeschoolers portrayed as terrorists? Unfortunately yes. This piece from Michelle Malkin at WorldNetDaily is revealing. Anti-homeschooling bigots strike again.
And I’m not sure this next piece suffices in explaining the characterization of Homeshoolers as terrorists.
WorldNetDaily: Homeschoolers portrayed as terrorists
Update: More thoughts here from the The Happy Homeschooler.

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This from HughHewitt.com. America needs to hear more truth like this.
From a Marine Corps Major in Baghdad:
“A thought from Iraq - “Doom & Gloom about Iraq’s future….I don’t see it from where I’m sitting.”
[For those of you who haven't gotten my "Thoughts" before, I'm a Major in the USMC on the Multi-National Corps staff in [...]

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From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons

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PictPress does a great job of turning WordPress into a photo blog. This is one slick plugin.
PictPress is a WordPress 1.2 plugin that automatically generates a post with thumbnails and picture posts for all images found in a directory. Thumbnails and pictures are resized on the fly and stored in a cache directory.

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Acronym Replacer is a convenient plugin for WordPress.

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Here’s a place to find templates for popular blogging systems: CMS Styles

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From today’s Langa Letter: How To Save an Hour (Or More) On XP Installs. Fred details how to prepare a new XP install CD to include the Windows XP SP2 so you never need to install the update after an install of XP again.

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I’ve now upgraded to Firefox 1.0 PR. Many improvements are visible. If you still aren’t using Firefox as your main browser you should really give it a whirl.

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Here’s an interesting way to give away your Gmail invites—send them to the gmail invite spooler.

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We’re going through some upgrades for the next hour or two. If things don’t look right they’ll be back to normal soon.
Update: All done…for now :)

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Here are a couple of handy solutions for browsing images from the WordPress admin screen that have been uploaded and for posting the thumbnail and image in the post. These improve the image handling capability of uploaded images in a WordPress powered site.
bistr-o-mathik.org’s Image Browser
and
ali-hassan.net’s WordPress Thumb-in-Post plugin

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If you don’t use keyboard shortcuts in your most frequently used applications you could be wasting a lot of time. Firefox is my browser of choice so here’s a handy reference to the keyboard shortcuts for this popular browser alongside the equivalents in Internet Explorer and Opera.
Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

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I realize I only have one or two readers (counting me) but I have Gmail invites for the next six commenters on this post. Tell a friend.
UPDATE: Be sure to indicate that you do want a Gmail invite.

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Here’s a pretty thorough review of WorPress in case you’re trying to decide if it’s for you or not.
WordPress Blog Publishing Platform Review

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The Customizable Post Listings Plugin:
Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, and other post listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner (so no need to tweak plugin code). You can narrow post searches by specifying categories and/or authors, among other things.

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Overcoming Writer’s Block. The author says that these are “strategies for dealing with writers block as it relates to Web content.” But I think it’s useful for other types of writing also.

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This is a great backup solution I’ve used on several WordPress installs: WordPress 1.2 One Click Backup

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Tamba2’s WordPress Guides
Here’s a sample of what you’ll find…
WP - Posting a question in the forums
WP - Answering questions in the forums
CSS - the default with graphics
Implementing Matt’s “Asides” - 1.2 - 1.3
FTP / Chmod - covers several free ftp programs
phpMyAdmin - to reset your password
phpMyAdmin - backup and restore
phpMyAdmin - empty or drop tables
Quicktags [...]

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Blogs are a powerful tool for the average Joe. This from the Instapundit’s piece on the Wall Street Journal’s site today makes that clear.

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Here’s a handful of decent CSS based layout templates: Ruthsarian Layouts

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