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“One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody’s listening.” — Franklin P. Jones

I came across a post from GotQuestions.org, a creationist website, that describes what they call “Progressive Creationism“. One of the characteristic beliefs of a Progressive Creationist apparently is that:

Death and bloodshed have existed from the very beginning of creation and were not the result of Adam’s sin. Man was created after the vast majority of earth’s history of life and death had already taken place.

Without geting into the whole thing I would like to respond to this passage:

Another error of Progressive Creationism is that death existed prior to the Fall, which undermines the Bible’s clear teaching that death is a result of sin (see Romans 5:12 and 1 Corinthians 15:21-22). Any theory which places man or animal death prior to the Fall of Adam must be rejected.

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I keep reading bits-and-bobs about trackbacks. When I came across one on the Wordpress pages I thought, at last chance to try them out. I read the Glossary at WordPress Codex, I read the Wikipedia pages, I read a few intros on Google. I couldn’t work out how it worked.

The key bit that was missing was how the link gets created in the first place, little did I know that there’s a “Trackbacks” section in the Wordpress administractors “Write” pane. Suddenly everything is a whole lot clearer. The best reference I found was probably this Sixapart docs page although their main trackback intro page was down. I would need to fish into the Wordpress code a bit to see what WP does with this trackback URL, but I’ll save that for some other day I think.

So this post is supposed to be about Wordpress hoodies, but hey, can’t win them all.

Well, I thought it would be nice to do some demo’s for using Inkscape. First up though I need to find a decent way to create video screencaps, preferably with audio and notes - though a video editor could be used later with the resulting video.

I used Google and Sourceforge to expand my search and limited the contenders to those with Linux versions. The top app on SF was VirtualDub but it’s Windows only.

Contenders are:

1. http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/
2. http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul
3. http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/about.php : I got my package from the getdeb site.
4. http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ : Wink version 2 is currently only available for Windows, which might suggest a move away from Linux.
5. http://epresence.tv/ : they call video captures “screencasts”. Their Producer and Player applications aren’t currently available for Linux.
6. http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/

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Was recently invited to attend the SWLUG lightning talks - someone posted a mock up poster on the site created as an ODT file in OpenOffice.org.

As is my want I decided that it could look a little more sparky. But not too “designed” as it’s just a simple poster to advertise a Linux event, we wouldn’t want to suggest that us Linux geeks need any more GUI than Emacs provides after all.

Here’s my effort. Click thumb to open a PNG version … if anyone wants the source files and the like you can comment or email me.

Well here’s another YouTube video of J. He suggested the title.

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Our lad J rides his bike for the first time … near-absolute enjoyment. Still not as good as tickles though!

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It turns out it’s pretty simple.

Log in to your dashboard (adminstrative system for Wordpress). Click on Manage and then “edit” the post you want to unpublish. One of the boxes says “Post Status”, choose the “Draft” radio button, then “Save” as usual.

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This page is a repost of one made when searching for mailing list management software for the CrowPoint festival website as part of my work with Communimedia (I’m now at BridgeHosting for web design work, etc.). I’ve used PHPlist on several sites now (including Diverse Manners) and so you could well consider it the winner, but do install at least a couple of apps (or try demos if available, eg PHPlist demo) to ensure you get the app that works best for your situation.

There are several options for open source PHP based mailing lists (and other types). I’m just going to summarise the project names first. I might do some reviews and add details later though.

Note that well known applications used for mailing list management include LISTSERV(TM) by L-Soft (now at version 14.5) and Major Domo by Great Circle Associates (now at version 1.94.5) - these so far as I can tell are console / command line based applications. Major Domo at least has some web-based front-ends made for it though. They might be useful to you, but not to me!

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OpenSong on Kubuntu

Installing a free lyric projection software on Linux from scratch

This is just a quick review of how I installed OpenSong on Kubuntu (the KDE version of Ubuntu) from scratch on a Windows XP (SP1) laptop.

1. Install Kubuntu
2. Install REALbasic using adept, alien and dpkg
3. Compile / Install OpenSong
4. Use …

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