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    <title>Midtoad's Messages</title>
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    <modified>2006-06-04T05:20:45+00:00</modified>
    <author>
      <name>midtoad</name>
    </author>
    <tagline>Excellence in creative mediocrity</tagline>
        <entry>
      <title>Comments system for Firedrop</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_04_22.html#e19</id>
      <issued>2006-04-23T19:02:23+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-05-25T14:07:36+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[Firedrop now has a comments system feature! If you create a blog with Firedrop, and you want to allow users to leave comments, you have a bit of a challenge. ... [326 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Don't re-publish existing files and images</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_04_15.html#e18</id>
      <issued>2006-04-16T07:40:44+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-23T16:09:19+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[With Firedrop2, there's a three-step process to getting your new content onto the web. First, you Build your entries... which means converting them from their easy-to-read text format (with optional mark-up character formatting) into HTML. ... [297 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Themes with Firedrop2</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_04_08.html#e17</id>
      <issued>2006-04-10T00:51:32+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:37:45+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[Firedrop2 now sports themes! There's a new Themes plugin that allows you to change the look of your website with just one click (plus a few selections)... ... [496 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>How to connect to a linux server with VNC viewer</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_03_04.html#e16</id>
      <issued>2006-03-05T23:47:42+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-23T16:01:14+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[This had been bugging me forever! I run a home webserver on a PC running Mandiva Linux (formerly Mandrake). Occasionally I need to do maintenance on it. ... [520 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Modifying open-source software</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_25.html#e15</id>
      <issued>2006-02-28T20:35:10+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:40:19+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[Let's say you use Microsoft Word and there's a feature missing that you would like. What are your choices? suck it up go somewhere else Now let's say you use open-source software, maybe a Python editor like SPE, and you notice that a desired feature is missing. ... [551 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Test Markdown post</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_25.html#e13</id>
      <issued>2006-02-26T22:05:47+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:40:28+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[BIG HEADLINE! How about some bold text, italic text, underline text and a footnote? 1 How about some Python code? ... [72 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Firedrop2 runs on Mandriva Linux</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_18.html#e12</id>
      <issued>2006-02-25T05:55:45+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:40:33+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[@ FIREDROP2 RUNS ON MANDRAKE LINUX Firedrop2 runs on Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) Linux! I had a bit of a challenge getting wxpython installed (download the binaries from wxpython.org, and use rpm --nodeps if wxpython tells you it needs a long laundry-list of other items installed - you don't need them to run Firedrop2). ... [126 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Test Plaintext post</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_18.html#e11</id>
      <issued>2006-02-21T22:50:35+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:40:37+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[@ BIG HEADLINE! How about some *bold text*, /italic text/, _underline text_? How about some code? +----------------------------------+ | a = string.join('a', 'b', 'c') | +----------------------------------+ and how about a multi-line code block? ... [76 words]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Test HTML post</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_11.html#e10</id>
      <issued>2006-02-17T00:25:44+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:40:43+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[@ BIG HEADLINE! How about some bold text, italic text, underline text? How about some code? a = string.join('a', 'b', 'c') and how about a code block? ... [53 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Test Sextile post</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_11.html#e9</id>
      <issued>2006-02-16T17:41:59+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:40:47+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[Big headline! Let's look at some bold text, italic text, underline text. How about some code? a = string.join('a', 'b', 'c') And also some list elements: item 1 item 2 What is more important? ... [37 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Test Textile post</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_11.html#e8</id>
      <issued>2006-02-16T07:46:41+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:40:51+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[BIG HEADLINE! How about some bold text, italic text, underline text? How about some code? a = string.join(&#8216;a&#8217;, &#8216;b&#8217;, &#8216;c&#8217;) And also some list elements: item 1 item 2 What is more important? ... [36 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Test ReST post</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_11.html#e7</id>
      <issued>2006-02-16T07:37:18+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:40:55+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[Big headline Let's look at some bold text, italic text, underline text. Firedrop is available at Voidspace.org.uk .. How about some code? ... [41 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>We're stylin' now!</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_11.html#e6</id>
      <issued>2006-02-12T05:46:31+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:41:34+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[I got tired of looking at bare white pages on this new blog, so I dug out one of my old CSS stylesheets and started editing it. Umpteen revisions later, I have something a little more reasonable-looking. ... [67 words]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Firedrop runs on Mac OS X!</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_04.html#e5</id>
      <issued>2006-02-11T04:27:26+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:41:40+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got Firedrop2 running on Mac OS X! This makes the application truly portable, since with only minor tweaking, it will run on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems. ... [444 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Disappearing text with Firedrop</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_04.html#e4</id>
      <issued>2006-02-10T06:23:41+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:41:53+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[I completed code changes on Firedrop to allow the build.ini file to be read and written using ConfigObj, which like Firedrop itself is written by Fuzzyman. I also added functionality to have the app open a default site; naturally, the user can then edit this folder once the app opens. ... [112 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>Hacking on Firedrop2</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_04.html#e3</id>
      <issued>2006-02-07T18:38:02+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:42:23+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started poking around in the Firedrop code to see if there is anything I could work on. One of the first things I noticed was the the build.ini file was being read by a home-grown method, and written back in a similar way. ... [87 words]]]></summary>
    </entry>
    <entry>
      <title>Second post with Firedrop</title>
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      <issued>2006-02-07T06:35:03+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:42:32+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[I got some issues worked out with Firedrop2 and have successfully made a first post with it. I&#8217;m composing this post off-line, on an installation of Firedrop2 on a USB memory stick that I have handy. ... [95 words]]]></summary>
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    <entry>
      <title>First post with Firedrop2</title>
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      <id>http://midtoad.org/blog2/arch_d7_2006_02_04.html#e1</id>
      <issued>2006-02-07T02:57:24+00:00</issued>
      <modified>2006-04-25T03:42:36+00:00</modified>
      <summary><![CDATA[This is the first post in my new blog, created with the Firedrop2 offline blogging tool. You can create entries using: Textile Sextile Rest2 html Title Col 1 Col 2 table are also with entries possible this blog You can also have some python code in your blog: if 1: print &#8220;Hello, world!&#8221; Headlines of various sizes are possible with Textile: An HTML first-level heading An HTML second-level heading An HTML third-level heading An HTML fourth-level heading An HTML fifth-level heading An HTML sixth-level heading Tricky! ... [105 words]]]></summary>
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