Locking Down an MT Blog

September 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |

When you use Mov­able Type for multi­blog­ging, some­times you’re going to find that you want to keep read­ers out alto­gether. Here’s a way to do it using Apache’s mod_env and an .htac­cess file.

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Roman Polanski and The Pianist

September 29th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Movies, Music |

This deeply mov­ing, deeply felt and beau­ti­fully ren­dered film is some­thing every­one should see. If for no other rea­son, the cli­mac­tic scene of a freez­ing and starv­ing Pol­ish pianist play­ing Chopin for his life.

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Poets House

September 28th, 2009 | 8 Comments | Books, Travelogues |

A kind of funny story in which I ask a stu­pid question.

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I Have A Meme

September 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

There’s a new nut­ti­ness abroad in the land.

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Russian Night

September 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Music |

Sit­ting in with NYSAE tonight, lots of Russ­ian roman­tics.
sheetmusic

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Teabagger Spelling Bee

September 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment | Comedy, Politics |

Some­one on MOL has been post­ing these, and I couldn’t resist.
Infromed

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Camden Yards

September 21st, 2009 | 0 Comments | Baseball, Travelogues |

One of the high­lights of our trip to Bal­ti­more this week­end was a game at Cam­den Yards. A great place to see a game.
The view from up in left field

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Firefox Gains A Majority

September 19th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |

These new sta­tis­tics shouldn’t cause the peo­ple at Fire­fox to get com­pla­cent. While IE is los­ing mar­ket share, Fire­fox is not get­ting all or even most of it.

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A Couple of Movable Type Tips

September 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Tech Stuff |

Doc­u­men­ta­tion for theme and style man­age­ment is a lit­tle bit lack­ing. Here are a few meth­ods and tweaks you should know, for adding and man­ag­ing styles or themes, and for mak­ing them a lit­tle more user-customizable.

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Cut The President Some Slack

September 17th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Politics |

I love this:

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German Expressionism

September 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Books |

The story of the mak­ing of the movie “Fitz­car­raldo” is par­al­lel to the plot of the film itself: a mad­man is seized by a vision — to haul a steamship over a moun­tain to the river on the other side. Werner Her­zog had the idea, and to bring it to life on film he couldn’t use mod­els, spe­cial effects, easy loca­tions. It had to be done with a real ship, over a real moun­tain, in a real South Amer­i­can jungle.

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Offensive

September 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Dri­ving home from rehearsal at BSO last night, I found myself on a beau­ti­ful clear night look­ing over the sky­line of lower Man­hat­tan. A sort of wave rolled over me, just a few days after Sep­tem­ber 11, of what I saw that morn­ing in 2001 and the events of the weeks that fol­lowed. I thought […]

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