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Next is the story of what happens to one man after he dies in a plane crash in 1966. He discovers a way to send notes on his experience back from the other side. He wants everyone on this side to know … what happens next. ★
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All AirBeagle Communications web creativity needs are handled exclusively by «Macintosh»; specifically, at this time, a 1.67 GHz Aluminum PowerBook G4 running OS X, v10.5.1 Leopard. Steve uses Adobe Photoshop, MediaLab’s SiteGrinder, Apple Safari, Panic’s Transmit SFTP, and Apple Textedit to design and build each site.
This site’s graphic design was inspired by a template from «TemplateWorld». Colors and combinations on AirBeagle sites are often suggested via Adobe Lab’s very awesome color theming application, «Kuler». Where noted, some AirBeagle sites have royalty-free photographs from «stock.xchng VI», which we highly recommend.
The site’s visual look is produced by a «valid CSS» file. Helvetica Neue is our font of choice. Yeah, we know it’s boring. But you can at least read it, can’t you?
The organizational/structural code of all AirBeagle sites is carefully and painstakingly written by hand and constructed as «valid XHTML 1.1» code. It should render perfectly in most up-to-date, decent browsers, with the exception of anything ever produced by Microsoft. Cranky sidebar: Internet Explorer is a bloated, crappy, nightmare tool of Satan and I refuse to torture myself by attempting to write hundreds of lines of code just to get it to display a simple box correctly, let alone anything else. Want to visit AirBeagle sites? Get «Firefox», for god’s sake.
All AirBeagle sites are hosted by shared accelerators provided by the fine folks at «Joyent», the premier, bleeding-edge webhost. AirBeagle was proud to be one of the second round of Venture Capital funders of the original Textdrive, founded by Dean Allen and which later merged with Joyent to do really amazing things. AirBeagle was hosted on the server One until November 2007; it is now on the very spiffy new Kemp server.
Dean Allen’s other project, «Textpattern», is the content management system for all AirBeagle sites, of which there are currently about 28. The backend power behind Joyent and Textpattern is provided by Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Joyent Accelerators, which are Sun Solaris servers located in San Diego, CA. Comments and critiques are welcome, but we track our visitors. Play nice, boys and girls.
And finally, blogging is powered by an XML-RPC connection between the very excellent «MacJournal» and the Textpattern CMS. You can subscribe to each site’s Atom syndication feed by clicking on the ‘Syndicate’ link in the navigation sidebar and then bookmarking the resulting page.
All AirBeagle sites (content and design) are © 1999-2008 | Steve Pollock, all rights reserved. The ‘air’ in AirBeagle was chosen because I love flying and airliners; the ‘beagle’ because I was owned at the time by a beagle (now I’m owned by three). The first AirBeagle site, airbeagle.com, first appeared on the web on 17-Mar-99; what was once a little hobby is now growing into something much, much bigger.
And now you know. We thank you for visiting and hope you enjoy your stay. ★