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I prefer the Wordpress interface, but it's been ages since I've looked at Blogger.
Me too -- generally speaking, Blogger gives you more theme choices, but WP gives you much better admin tools. Still, some people really love or hate one or the other, and there's no way to know until you've played around with them.
Blogger has a very simple interface, but then offers you way way less opportunities for customization, both of appearance and customization like extra sidebars.
WordPress comes with PHP functions that tie into a backend MySQL database, thousands of free themes (i.e. HTML/CSS/PHP that arranges pictures and text), the ability to create your own theme from scratch, and control panels to deal with plugins, handling comments including spam trapping, and is scaleable up to your industrial-size sites.
I use Blogger and like it well enough for my simple needs.
I dislike blogger personally, but wordpress doesn't let you delete your account, so it just depends on how static you want your thing to be.
Hey, so. Is is possible to hack a 1g iphone to work on a pre-paid month by month chip?
I want this pen. That's so cool.
is there a word processor for the mac that can find homonyms or wrong homonyms in a document? Further, is there a word processor that can find inconsistent verb tenses?
I want this pen. That's so cool.
Very! But (as MANY of the commenters point out) you'd think the designer would know the difference between RGB and CMYK.
Wondering whether anyone might suggest what I can do about viewing the site from my phone. The pages that list threads are fiine, but when I go in to a thread, all the headers and text get smooshed over to the right in a three character column. It's a mystery to me. Other sites seem OK. Can I do something in CSS, maybe? Probably not enough info. to help, but I figured I'd ask.
Maybe the answer is to get a new phone...
what kind of phone?
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11:
Here's a really fascinating piece on the BBC about NASA programmer Don Eyles and the team behind the infamous AGC (Apollo Guidance Computer). Don was only 23 when he got the gig. Maybe it was good that he was young and naive. As he says: "I don't recall the risk and the responsibility and the fact that other people's lives were to some extent in our hands."
There are few instances in which I'm happy to be as old as I am. The fact that I got to live through and be an active observer (aka space geek!) during the Apollo program is one of those times. I still get chills reliving some of that footage.
There's a great jargon term in here, too: "LOL memory." It stands for "Little Old Lady memory" and refers to the "rope core memory" used in the AGC that required teams of (women) employees to weave meters and meters of copper wire around magnetic cores.