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Lorelle on Wordpress: Are you Blogging your Passion or Blogging your Blog?

So you want to write a successful blog?  Or perhaps just have a successful Website that people actually visit?  Lorelle reminds us just how to make your blog of interest to others.

I have many friends raised within countries which still play by these rules, where you are and do what your father or mother did, and maybe your grandparents before you, not what you want to do. Where apprenticeship programs are the only way into a trade. Where you are tested and found competent for a specific job, not because your heart leads the way.

While many get preoccupied with how to make money blogging, we forget that online journaling and blogging began as a way to share our lives with others. To teach. To share as we learn. But most of all, to share our passions through our words, images, and sounds.

Translation.  If you want to make sure your blog interests others, be sure that the first person interested in the blog is...yourself.

eWeek: Star Wars’ IT Legacy 30 Years Later

Slide show at eWeek on how Start Wars helped inspire a generation of information technologists.  I was nine years old when the first Star Wars movie came out and have been obsessed with science fiction ever since!
Star Wars, which celebrates its 30th anniversary on May 25, gave the IT industry more than a collective hobby and heroes. Many of the technologies introduced in the original 1977 film and its two sequels are now everyday technologies.
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Are you really a XOOPS fan?

I saw this originally at XOOPS.org.  I have to say, what a fantastic idea:  XOOPS screen savers for Windows.
An ingenious Screensaver. Only for correct XOOPS fans.

44 graphic effects, 15 nice pictures of XOOPS, completely configurable, with password protection

I wonder if I can get a screen saver for my favorite Web apps including Drupal, Wordpress, SMF...

Drupal Blog at Like that Idea and Other CMS Resources

The following message was originally posted on our sister site, Like that Idea , on March14, 2006:

We had great intentions to continue to keep everyone up to date on a new site that we’re building using Drupal, a content management system (CMS). The idea was as we were building the site we intended to write down how we did it so others could learn with us. Well if you look at our Drupal blog here at Like that Idea you would see that we have not had too many posts in the blog. Have we given up on the idea? No hardly, we are just so busy with other projects (including the project of raising a family) that we have had to prioritize and put some of our ideas on the back burner.

I have no doubt the new site focusing on content management systems will eventually be up and running, the question is when and not if it will happen. I suspect that once Drupal 4.7 has been released is when we’ll start working on the site.

In the meantime, We would like to recommend a few places that you can go to learn about Drupal and other content management systems. First, if you haven’t visited the handbooks at Drupal.org lately, you should. A lot of changes have been taking place in the user support documentation at Drupal.org and most of it is for the better. If reading isn’t your thing, Drupal users don’t have to wait for the movie to come out since it is now available at Lullabot. Lullabot is providing both audiocasts and videocasts on a number of Drupal topics. The Lullabot video for managing menus and links with Drupal is very well done.

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