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        <description>A Web designer in Racine, Wisconsin, blogging about movies, DVDs, music, books, cooking, food, dining, gardening, TV, backyard birds and birding, Internet, news, media, politics, religion, Chicago, Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha.</description>
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              <title>WordPress CMS alternative: SilverStripe open source content management system</title>
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               <![CDATA[<p>After a meeting with a Kenosha-Racine area salon owner, I was working on a website proposal and trying to settle on a CMS. This site would be more like a conventional website than a blog, but the ability to edit it would still be key, and the salon's staff would need something flexible, but still very user-friendly. They would want to feature events and specials, add pages for new stylists, change prices and other details of product lines, etc.</p>

<p>Comparing my various options, Drupal, Joomla, and Movable Type clearly would be too complex. I was again leaning strongly toward WordPress  when I stumbled upon something I had never heard of before: <a href="http://www.silverstripe.org/" target="_blank">SilverStripe</a>.</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:16:00 -0600</pubDate>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Obviously, anyone reading this passage is supposed to sympathize with the slandered psalmist. No one with a brain would instead adopt the "wicked and deceiving words" of the accusers as a slogan, right?</p>

<p>Wrong.</p>]]>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Here's a tip:  <strong><em><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/" target="_blank">Get Firefox</a></em></strong>.</p>

<p>Not only is Firefox a superior, free browser with an <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/" target="_blank">superabundance of useful add-ons</a>, but it has a built-in spell-checker which flags your suspected misspellings with a <span class="underline-dotted-red">dotted red underline</span>.</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:35:00 -0600</pubDate>
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              <title>How to carve a turkey: Alton Brown&apos;s Thanksgiving video tutorial</title>
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               <![CDATA[<p>The thought of Thanksgiving coming up and people having to figure out how to carve the bird reminds me of two extremely helpful things:</p>

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<li>Our <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WKI3/czerniec" target="_blank">Cuisinart CEK-40 Electric Knife</a></strong>. We've had it for about a decade, and its two blades work like magic on both roasted meats and breads.</li>
<li>The <strong>baseline cutting trick</strong>, as demonstrated by Alton Brown in the video above from his Food Network show <a href="http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/GEFP/index.htm" target="_blank"><cite>Good Eats</cite></a>. This genius carving tip makes a huge difference.</li>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:40:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<p><a href="http://getclicky.com/148420" target="_blank"><strong>Clicky Web Analytics</strong></a> is a real time Web statistics service. Its charts and graphs show you up-to-the-minute data. At any given moment, you can see how many visitors are at your site, how they got there, and what they're looking at. You can see their locations on a Google Map, and you can find out whether and exactly when they've visited before. You can see their operating systems, their browser versions, and their screen resolutions. You can see their ISPs or company names, and their cities and states. There's even a "Spy" display for tracking their paths through your site in real time, so you can see exactly which pages and links your visitors are using <em>right now</em>.</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:29:00 -0600</pubDate>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Season's greetings to you and yours from Frankenstein's monster and his lovely bride.</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:13:00 -0600</pubDate>
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               <![CDATA[<p>A couple of hours ago, though, the video above &mdash; a Pomplamoose cover of Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" &mdash; slowly slid down my home feed at <a href="http://friendfeed.com/" target="_blank">FriendFeed</a>. I clicked on it, and I was instantly hooked. The video has been up for just over a month and viewed nearly two million times.</p>

<p>From there, I went to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/PomplamooseMusic" target="_blank">PomplamooseMusic</a> channel at YouTube, where I watched some more of their amazing "VideoSongs" &mdash; like this version of The Chordettes' "Mister Sandman":</p>]]>
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               <![CDATA[<p>If you need some Halloween-themed tracks to fill out your iPod library, here are a few suggestions. You can download these tunes in handy MP3 form via Amazon.com and enjoy them at an upcoming costume party or hayride, use them as background music for your haunted house or trick-or-treat display, or relax with them while you're pumpkin-carving or lost in a corn maze. Please take care, however, to remove your earbuds when bobbing for apples.</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:15:00 -0600</pubDate>
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              <title>UK Transplant patients given smokers&apos; lungs</title>
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               <![CDATA[<p>In the radio segment, <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/biomedicine/research/groups/profile/j.h.dark" target="_blank">Prof. John Dark</a>, senior transplant surgeon at The Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, said that data suggest the lungs of smokers "do a little bit worse, but not much worse; perhaps five percent worse."</p>

<p>Professor Dark also noted the possibility that a donor's lungs might be harboring a very early cancer, and "If you take lungs with a cancer in them and give them to a recipient, there's a chance the cancer may grow in the recipient. And that has happened from time to time over the years."</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:53:00 -0600</pubDate>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Many of Woody Allen's more recent films are beautifully shot in luxurious foreign locations. They star contemporary name actors of great mystique who are all absolutely obeisant about the honor of working with Mr. Allen. But while they still feature the same <a href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/windsor/ef-elongated/" target="_blank">Windsor EF Elongated</a> titles and jazz/classical soundtracks as in previous works, the storytelling falls flat and the jokes are forced.</p>

<p>I keep waiting for something matching Allen's previous brilliance, but <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001G9F9IW/czerniec" target="_blank"><cite>Vicky Cristina Barcelona</cite></a> is not it.</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:22:00 -0600</pubDate>
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               <![CDATA[<p>For anyone whose childhood included countless hours of <cite><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Rayner" target="_blank">Ray Rayner</a> and His Friends</cite>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo%27s_Circus#Bozo_on_Chicago_TV" target="_blank"><cite>Bozo's Circus</cite></a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_Thomas" target="_blank">Frazier Thomas</a> hosting <cite>Garfield Goose and Friends</cite> and <cite>Family Classics</cite>, <a href="http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/" target="_blank">The Museum of Classic Chicago Television</a> (online at  <a href="http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/" target="_blank">www.FuzzyMemories.TV</a>) has been a gift and a treasure, preserving fragments of our past that might otherwise be lost forever.</p>

<p>Now, however, it appears that Tribune Company superstation WGN-TV has flexed its muscle and forced the little nonprofit to pull all WGN-TV material from the museum website.</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:45:00 -0600</pubDate>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Now, from England, comes the astounding story of Terry Herbert. Using his metal detector, he found a hoard of more than 1,500 precious Anglo-Saxon military artifacts. The collection is 1,400 years old. Much of it is gold and silver of consummate craftsmanship, with arrays of tiny garnets cut to shape. Some of the items are unique and incomparable, making them nearly impossible to appraise or price. The trove likely belonged to a king. A former keeper at the British Museum says the discovery is "absolutely the equivalent of finding a new Lindisfarne Gospels or Book of Kells."</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:39:00 -0600</pubDate>
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              <title>Heart-shaped potato</title>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Last night, Amy and I watched President Obama on <cite>The Late Show with David Letterman</cite>, where he was given a heart-shaped potato by audience member <a href="http://www.kctv5.com/news/21059548/detail.html" target="_blank">Mary Apple of Independence, Missouri</a>, who brought the same potato to Letterman's show two years ago.</p>

<p>Today, upon opening a new bag of Wisconsin russets, Amy happened upon her own heart-shaped potato &mdash; and this one was actually bigger and more heart-shaped than the one that garnered so much attention.</p> ]]>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:14:00 -0600</pubDate>
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               <![CDATA[<p>The real problem with the Netflix movie rating system is that it uses five stars &mdash; whole stars only, and zero is not selectable. This gives you only five possible ratings choices.</p>

<p>The tried and true standard movie critics' star rating system, on the other hand, is based on just four stars &mdash; but half-stars <em>are</em> used, and zero stars (a bomb) is an option. This permits nine alternatives, a far better range than just five.</p>]]>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Back in June, I blogged about a significant <a href="http://www.czerniec.com/2009/06/29/time-warner-cable-payexpress.html">flaw in Time Warner Cable's PayXpress bill payment</a> system. Three months later, nothing seems to have been fixed.</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:50:00 -0600</pubDate>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Keith Olbermann's segments on Glenn Beck's Rockefeller Center lunacy the past two nights have been hysterical. Do not miss these.</p>]]>
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              <title>LinkedIn book: &apos;How to REALLY use LinkedIn,&apos; by Jan Vermeiren</title>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Especially here in reticent Racine, Wisconsin, business people are still not sure whether it's even professional to "connect" with others online at all.</p>

<p>Still, it seemed to me there must be something behind all the LinkedIn hype, so I bought <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1439229635/czerniec" target="_blank"><cite>How to REALLY use LinkedIn</cite></a></strong> from Amazon.com and read it with my wife <a href="http://amycz.com">Amy</a>, a natural-born networker who has connected with actual business people for a living, while I have mostly been home working on websites.</p>]]>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Amy and I have just caught ourselves up with <a href="http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/" target="_blank"><cite>Mad Men</cite></a>, the <a href="http://www.amctv.com/" target="_blank">AMC</a> series centered around a Madison Avenue advertising firm in the early 1960s. We watched Season 1 and Season 2 on DVD via Netflix. Season 3 premieres Sunday, August 16 at 9 p.m. Central.</p>

<p>Tomorrow (<a href="http://movies.amctv.com/schedule/?day=10&view=day" target="_blank">Monday, August 10</a>), AMC is running a Season 2 marathon from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Central &mdash; all 13 episodes. AMC is Channel 59 on Time Warner Cable in Racine and Kenosha. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000YABIQ6/czerniec" target="_blank">Season 1</a> (also on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0017JKEL8/czerniec" target="_blank">Blu-ray</a>)  and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001GCUER0/czerniec" target="_blank">Season 2</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0027HOBM2/czerniec" target="_blank">Blu-ray</a>) of <cite>Mad Men</cite> are  both available on DVD from Amazon.com.</p>]]>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Apple's Snow Leopard date won't be until September, but you can <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000410511&tag=czerniec" target="_blank">preorder the upgrade for just $29</a></strong> right now, exclusively from Amazon.com.</p>

<p>The new Snow Leopard release is said to use just half the footprint of previous versions, with improvements to Stacks, Exposé, and Time Machine backup.</p>]]>
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               <![CDATA[<p>What happened to the original, higher-quality tapes? Apparently, they were erased and taped over, in much the way you might record over your wedding video to catch the latest installment of <cite>Dancing with the Stars</cite>. This is what NPR's <cite>Morning Edition</cite> reported today in their first-man-on-the-moon followup (<strong>"<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066" target="_blank">Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes</a>"</strong>).</p>]]>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:58:00 -0600</pubDate>
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               <![CDATA[<p>Recently, I read and reviewed <a href="http://www.czerniec.com/2009/06/22/problogger-book-rowse-garrett.html"><cite>ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income</cite></a>.</p>

<p>If that work is an introductory handbook to blogging as a potential home-based business &mdash; analogous to the way someone might raise chinchillas &mdash; <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1439105006/czerniec" target="_blank"><cite>The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging</cite></a></strong> is more of a <em>gospel</em> of blogging, evangelizing the practice like a pseudo-religion with a lot of celebrity devotees, all ushering in a new, ecstatic world order.</p>]]>
               [&lt;a href=http://www.czerniec.com/2009/07/13/huffington-post-blogging.html&gt;&lt;em&gt;Full post here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;]
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               <![CDATA[<p>The <strong><a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cedar_Waxwing/id" target="_blank">Cedar Waxwing</a></strong> is a striking bird, as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology notes:</p>

<p><blockquote>... the Cedar Waxwing is a silky, shiny collection of brown, gray, and lemon-yellow, accented with a subdued crest, rakish black mask, and brilliant-red wax droplets on the wing feathers. In fall these birds gather by the hundreds to eat berries, filling the air with their high, thin, whistles. In summer you're as likely to find them flitting about over rivers in pursuit of flying insects, where they show off dazzling aeronautics for a forest bird.</blockquote></p>]]>
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               <![CDATA[<p>The clip above is from their just-released CD/DVD combo <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0027ZGZSC/czerniec" target="_blank"><cite>Live from Austin, TX</cite></a></strong>, recorded live at that legendary Texas PBS showcase, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_City_Limits" target="_blank"><cite>Austin City Limits</cite></a>.</p>

<p>The package features Drive-By Truckers' entire September 26, 2008, thirteen-song performance from their <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00106AIZK/czerniec" target="_blank"><cite>Brighter Than Creation's Dark</cite></a> tour &mdash; over an hour of music &mdash; in both CD and DVD form.</p>]]>
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               <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://whocalled.us/lookup/8018232033" target="_blank"><strong>According to WhoCalled.Us</strong></a>, the caller was "Western Watts" (the correct spelling is actually <a href="http://www.westernwats.com/" target="_blank">Western Wats</a>), which turns out to be an Orem, Utah-based market research / data collection company performing live interviewing, online surveys, automated telephony, and other misdemeanors.</p>

<p>Furthermore, a great many of the <a href="http://whocalled.us/lookup/8018232033#comments" target="_blank">comments at WhoCalled.Us</a> associated the mysterious call with recent work done by Kinko's or FedEx Kinko's (which is now FedEx Office). </p>]]>
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               <![CDATA[<p>There was something about this year's <a href="http://www.racine4thfest.org/index.php/Main_Page" target="_blank">Fourth Fest Parade</a> that was absolutely transcendent. Seeing so many Racinians and our guests, from all walks of life, gathering together on our charming Main Street in the Midwest &mdash; to simultaneously perform and spectate, to see and be seen, to display and witness slices of each other's humanity amidst the larger compass of America's history and its founding cornerstones of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness" target="_blank">Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness</a>" &mdash; was just incredibly <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/01/i_feel_good_i_knew_that_i_woul.html" target="_blank"><em>elevating</em></a>.</p>]]>
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