Patience: Irregular Times Moving to New Server

administrator 2/18/2011
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Over the next 24 hours, Irregular Times will be moving to a new, souped up web server with tail fins and everything. In the meantime, you may find that every now and then things stop working here. Please be patient …

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Irregular Times Introduces E-mail Newsletters

administrator 3/15/2010
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After the old CafePress system for delivering occasional newsletters broke down recently, we started looking for a way to introduce a new newsletter system to bring you the information you want from Irregular Times (and nothing else) to your e-mail …

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Same Information, New Theme for Irregular Times. Thoughts?

administrator 1/19/2010
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We tried out a new visual theme for Irregular Times a few days ago with the goal of decluttering the page. When we asked your opinion, we heard loud and clear that you wanted the entire articles available for reading …

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A Different Theme

administrator 1/18/2010
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We’re updating the design of Irregular Times tonight. If there are any problems, or if you have ideas for how we can improve things, please leave a comment, and we’ll see what we can do.

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Our Constitution

jclifford 1/7/2010
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I’ve put up a simple, no-frills copy of the Constitution here on Irregular Times. I’ve also placed a permanent link to the text, and to a few other good resources, here on the front page. It’s under the section “Essential Documents”, at the very bottom of the most righthand sidebar.

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CafePress Enters Period of Deferred Maintenance, Disabling Newsletter

Jim Cook 1/1/2010
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A classic sign of trouble for an institution — be it educational, religious, governmental or economic — is a pattern of deferred maintenance in which easily fixed problems remain unfixed. Deferred maintenance can be a sign of bureaucratic inattention or …

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Why Bother With Google SideWiki?

ITimes 12/14/2009
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Google Sidewiki is a column that opens up on the side of a web page, making the page’s content smaller, shoved over to the right, and showing the latest Google users’ comments on the page.

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Shrinking Pains At Irregular Times

ITimes 11/9/2009
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If ever-escalating widget, plugin and theme complexity is not matched by the server power most web sites have available to them, there isn’t much point.

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Comment Follies

Jim Cook 9/17/2009
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Irregular Times has been plagued by a software glitch in our comments section. WordPress, the software we use to post articles and invite comments, “autopopulates” our comment form with the name you used the last time you came here to …

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Skreened offers $3-$4 Discounts on Custom Shirts for All July

Jim Cook 7/4/2009
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Pssst. If you enter the coupon code “fireworks” at checkout when you buy one of our ethically-made-in-the-USA t-shirts from Skreened, you’ll get 15% off the cost. That comes out to $3-$4 off per shirt, a pretty good deal. The coupon …

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Should Irregular Times Get Friendly(TM)?

Peregrin Wood 5/4/2009
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My instinct is to conclude that it would be a mistake to try to adopt Facebook features, just because Facebook has been successful with them.

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New Look For Irregular Times

ITimes 2/11/2009
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At the top is Theodiclus Locke, Mr. Odd Clock, our long-lived irregular man character, now in sharper focus. He’s still got a little bit of graininess around the edges.

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What Happened to Irregular Times?

ITimes 1/9/2009
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Irregular Times has a new design. Give us your feedback.

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Irregular Times Is Not Cutting Its Staff

Mother Davis 12/11/2008
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It’s up to those who have retained the flexibility of smallness to do their part by writing the small stories that never have gotten coverage in the big presses.

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New RSS Feed of Progressive Activist Events

Jim Cook 11/10/2008
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As we continue to ramp up our I Voted For You, But… project to collect Obama voters’ expressions of personal dissent and progressive activists’ plans for collective protest, we’ve taught ourselves how to write RSS feeds. As a result, we’re …

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New Irregular Times Forum for Untethered Discussion

Jim Cook 10/22/2008
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Here at Irregular Times we occasionally like to tweak things a bit, but every once in a while a bigger change is called for. A few years ago we decided to “upgrade” a discussion board we had going on by …

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Where We’re Sending Buttons

jclifford 7/21/2008
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These are just the places we’ve mailed buttons to in the last week or so. You’ll be seeing more points soon. Get a political button, and you’ll put your town on the map.

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Updated Ocean Activist Media

jclifford 5/5/2008
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As the Green Man and I have both pointed out, the crisis in marine ecology is probably the most under-reported story of our time. It’s worth going out on a limb on Zimbio for, I think. But is working on Zimbio worthwhile in any other sense?

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