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So for the uninitiated, I grew up during the golden age of video games, the 1980s, which includes the era of the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). By current standards, the pioneering games of that era were graphically and logically quite primitive. Coupled with the fact that many of those games have imperfections and areas that could stand for improvement [...]

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Curiously I tried out ChatGPT and asked this question: “Tell me a story about a teddy bear.” The results are quite interesting. The AI-generated story is entirely believable and works well as a simple children's story. Once the AI-generated artwork algorithms improve, I could create an entire children's book instantly... 🤔 Once upon a time, there was a beautiful and [...]

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So where am I at with REMLAB? First off, as you can see it has been 10 years since I last updated the PHP/AJAX version of REMLAB that I have on SourceForge. This version I have largely abandoned this as the source code for it was a hot mess and needed to be completely rewritten. About 5 years ago, I [...]

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In honor of the date of this website's namesake, and of course my birthday🎈🎂, here is a little history of the existence of this website. This website has existed in one form or another for over twenty years. It began as a personal webpage through my ISP RoadRunner and then I transitioned it over to march-twenty.com then on to marchtwenty.net. [...]

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For a creative writing class that I took several years ago, we were tasked with writing a short parable or fable. The inspiration for this short story came from The Æsop Fables for Children section on the Library of Congress website. The fable I wrote centers around the interaction between a bear cub 🐻 and a fish 🐟, and the [...]

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Happy New Year!  ...Aaannnd there’s no better way to kick off 2023 than with some MarchTwenty Merchandise! You know making my own personalized merchandise has never been this easy and fun to do. With that said, I have two stores with a whole wide range of products that rock my bear logo along with some of my other artwork and [...]

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When I got my start in web design, the online tools were nowhere near as powerful as the ones that can be found today. The net is ripe with a number of amazing web apps and tools that I never thought would be possible twenty years ago. Those resources greatly enhanced my ability to deliver a heavily optimized and visually [...]

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After years of work redeveloping my WordPress theme - m20T1, I've finally finished the redesign of marchtwenty.com. This theme is a total rebuild of the custom theme I had been using for over 10 years. My intention for this theme was to make it as plugin-independent as possible while keeping it as efficient and feature-rich as possible. The design I [...]

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This is from an article I found twenty years ago: September 9 is National Teddy Bear Day. The soft, huggable, adorable-looking stuffed animals have been children's friends for a hundred years.  Tradition says that when Theodore Roosevelt was President, he received a new type of toy as a gift - a play bear. From then on, the new-fangled toy was [...]

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While checking out the Wayback Machine (see previous post), I realized that I had a number of pre-WordPress 'news' entries and writings going back to 2001 that I had forgotten about, and had neglected to bring to future versions of my site. I corrected that mistake by retroactively inserting those old writings into this existing blog. Those old posts don't [...]