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Chris Pearson just informed me that his Cutline theme has img classes that make image handling in WP posts a little easier. Chris also fixed the blogroll problem that showed up after WP 2.1 upgrades. Click here to download Cutline 1.1. I just voted Pearsonified as the best Designed blog, here.

$119 Windows Vista OEM
$187 Intel core 2 duo E6300 CPU
$126 Gigabyte GA-965-DS3 MB
$178 Kingston 2G 667Mhz DDR2 RAM
$ 95 Seagate 320GB SATA 3.0 Gb/s HD
$ 69 Antec Sonata II PSU and case
Total so far is about $800.
I eventually want a video board with OTA HDTV tuner and HDMI out.

I have an AMD Athlon XP 1700, socket A CPU in a Shuttle K31A rev 3 motherboard. The FSB is 266 and one of my two sticks of 256k RAM is only working on one side. I get bluescreened several times a week and now my registry is corrupted such that I cannot open anything [...]

This is a test of thumbnail sizes, one floated right with a 10 px horizontal space and linked to the full sized file. The other is floated left with 10px vert and horiz spaces. Both are sized to 150X120px. This test was conducted using the new file upload features inthe WP 2.1 version. The [...]

Six Aparts new free VOX blogging service just allowed custom banners yesterday. I decided to use this picture to make a 940px by 200px banner. You can see it at artifactor.vox.com. VOX is also allowing us to create groups, where we can post an article to a particular group site (photography for example). I want [...]

At first I thought this was a volleyball. It is a giant puffball mushroom. For a sense of scale, look for the fly on the left side. I have eaten them. I slice it like bread and fry it in a frying pan with various toppings - Cajun, suger and cinnamin, etc.
This picture is [...]

I am resorting to HTML to create padding between the picture and the text. I used html styles to get a 40 px space to the right of the picture, but not on the left. I put a 10 px padding underneath, too. I hope I can figure a way to hard code this that [...]

I finally gave up struggling to get the Cutline theme to install and filled out a help ticket. Bluehost support quickly explained that nested within the Cutline folder were two sub folders, one of which was also called Cutline. Nested folders with the same name apparently was the problem. Next I need to think about [...]

Thanks to Pearsons Tubetorial I now have URLs that contain my postname. In the dashboard go to options then permalinks and select custom. In the box type /%postname%/ and click the lower right update button. I did not need to change my .htaccess. I could not figure how but I think it work without it.