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A Suntan on the Road to Freedom

My last day of work was last Friday, and I’m still getting chills over the decision.  I thought I would definitely mention this for those of you who would think that it would be the case, having some self-doubt after quitting a job.  Yup. Each morning this week I woke to the unpleasantness of the [...]

Working on the New “Skillful Means” Template

Yesterday, I wrote a about creating a local development environment for WordPress on my local Vista laptop.  I had a feeling that this would be a much easier way to work on things like developing a new theme for my blog.   I am so glad that I did.   Having a local development environment allowed me [...]

Creating a WordPress Development Environment on Windows XP/Vista

I have decided to learn a bit more about the innards of my little wordpress blog.  I have an idea or two for widgets, and I definitely wanted to work on the template, all this and with little risk to my production installation (the wordpress blog site that you are currently reading this post on).   [...]

Freelancing and Cleaning up Skillful Means

I have decided to take the plunge and continue what I had done a year ago.  Life gave me an opportunity for a nine months period and I took it and learned much from it.  Now I have decided to take a different path.  Although the opportunity was wonderful, I was missing the ability to [...]

Family Happenings and a Server Down

Life has taken many twists and turns over the last few days.  I’m coping, but it seems like I will be taking another trip, and possibly more soon after that. Like does that, don’t it? Also the web server that serves this blog had a hard time coming back up after an update.  It took [...]

Last Post before Break… scribefire on linux

Tonight (Friday night) I’m installing a few more necessary items on my tiny laptop, some that I will need to take care some things once I take off into the wild blue yonder.  There may be a few opportunities that have come up recently that I’m giving thought to, and I haven’t made up my [...]

My First Blog Post From Pixie – Finding a Blog Editor for Linux

Tonight after spending some times with friend in real life, I came home with a little mission in mind. I really wanted to find a blog editor that I could use off of my linux partition on my new little MSI Wind. I did have a few requirements, although I knew that it was quite [...]

Skillfulmeans 11 months old, and 9 months of writing

It is kind of strange.  It is almost a year later and I’m sitting on my deck.   It was almost a year ago that I started this blog. It began one spring… It began one spring, the choices that were shown to me weren’t really what I wanted to do, but they started to make [...]

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