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Song about a Theme

Website design runs in waves, as it evolves toward greater simplicity and greater complexity, easier to use and easier to muck up. I’d rather call these fashions or trends, as sometimes they’re as much about the look as the functionality. Just like in clothing, if one doesn’t care to follow these year’s look closely, you […]

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Theme (Swan) Song

It’s time for a change. Way past time for the blog Brick. As of today, because I couldn’t stand waiting for July 1, the beginning of a quarter, or June 1, the next detail-fixated date, I have changed the theme of this blog. Theme is what wordpress.org calls a template. The theme organizes the overall […]

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Blog On, Blog Off

This column first was published in the August 2011 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Instead of polishing this column, I should be sewing nametags into my clothes, shaking out my sleeping bag for WordCamp. If I showed up with that stuff, even the geeks there would laugh. We’re all geeks at WordCamp. […]

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Forward Slash and Burn

This is a reversal. Brick is all about the new. Live in the present, look toward the future. Dwell just a little on what’s past. But the URL from which it sprang, benpollock.com, has been neglected. Oh, I tell myself, it’s an archive. It works well enough. Fast-loading, a reference for me when I am […]

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Absence Makes Blogs Shorter

Brick has been sporadic for some weeks. With luck, it will be more active in December. Want an excuse? How about National Novel Writing Month. It’s 50,000 words to create a first draft of a novel (around a 200-page book) in 30 days. November is the one. My third try, and I went past 50,000 […]

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On the Wall

Should I get back into more frequent or even regular Brick postings, it will be in part because of waking today to an image of the artistic caveman. It may have been the last scene of an otherwise forgotten dream, or just an isolated visual, conjured just before sitting up. The fellow chooses a charred […]