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I’m looking for a good, cheap backup service for automated backups of my personal computers. I’m wondering what others are using?

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Google has released a themes option for GMail, at long last! No more need for hacks Grab it yourself:
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Anyone else with a Chevy Venture van have problems with ABS sensors?

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Happy Birthday Dries!  Have a peice of virtual cake, and enjoy your birthday!

Drupal Birthday

I’m looking for a flash (or AJAX) banner rotator for a project I’m working on.  Something like this.  Does anyone know of anything like that that is either free or open source?

Drupal Ajax, FAQs Help and Tutorials, JavaScript, Web

I came accross this today on Angie’s blog, and had to share!

I would love to see a series of blog posts from Drupal developers on patch review strategies they employ, so we can share some tips and tricks and ramp up our collective review IQs. I’ll start it off with mine. I call it “The 6-Pass Patch Review” (wittier names welcome! ;))

Read the rest of Drupal Core Diaries: The 6-pass patch review @ webchick.net!

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It’s something I’m asked every now and then. “If I’m just making a blog site, should I just use WordPress, or should I still use Drupal?” To be fair, it all comes down in the end to a matter of personal taste. But, there are still some factual points on either side of the Drupal Blog vs. WordPress Blog argument.

Firstly, some reasons to use Drupal for your blog:

• You can easily add more advanced features and modules.
• It’s (debatably) easier to theme

For me, the pros of Wordpress outweigh any cons; in the end it comes down to being easier to upgrade when a new release comes out.  But, if Drupal had one-click upgrade as well, I’d be using that instead in a shot.

Drupal Blog, blogging, Drupal, Web, Weblogs, WordPress

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The Drupal redesign is continuing, and an interesting concept for the “Drupal Planet” has been released.  Called Drupal Digest, this new site created by Wim Mostrey uses a digg-style of article presentation.  

Wim also made a great article recently called “Five resources to score a Drupal freelance job”.  It’s a great read, and was apparently inspired by my prior blog post “Looking for Work“.

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