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By far the most important component of WordPress, as for any CMS, is The Loop or engine. The purpose of the Loop is to select from the available content that which the reader has requested then deliver that content, item by item, through the rest of the processing system. In short, the Loop decides what posts can be seen.

The WordPress loop is to most blog owners, I suspect, a few lines of barely-comprehensible code in some of their theme files. This is a good thing. Most blog owners, like most car owners, prudently avoid disaster by going nowhere near the engine. Other blog owners however, like some car owners, are intolerably curious as to how things work and don’t mind breaking things for fun.

I won’t go anywhere near a real engine, but a software engine poses no threat to my fingers, so in I go.
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stu nicholls | CSS PLaY | experimenting with cascading style sheets

JavaScript beware! Stu Nicholls is the Grim Reaper, CSS his scythe.

Don’t these guys ever tire of getting high and making music? Don’t they realise the fashion for attention spans is toward the shorter, these days?
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As two CDs have comprised around 95% of my music listening pleasure for the last four months, I can safely say that I have listened them to death and should be able to tell people something about them.

Describe Ozric Tentacles CDs. Ah yes, well there’s the trouble. Unlike most other musicians, the Ozrics deliberately make their music difficult to describe in words. Rather than asking “do you like our music?” the Ozrics ask “would you like to come on a journey with us?” Describing a journey through a physical landscape is taxing enough, but an aural landscape or soundscape? How does one begin?
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