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Is Your Site (not your blog) Run By WordPress? Perhaps it Should Be

Tuesday, 11 November 2008 by Paul O'Brien

WordPress – The celebrated blog platform, favored by search marketers for its amazing degree of customization and built-in optimization, comes in two flavors: Hosted by wordpress.com: Gets you started as quickly and easily as the perhaps more well known hosted, and Google owned, Blogger. The WordPress platform provided by wordpress.org: The downloadable version of WordPress

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Buddy Holly – Rave On

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1996-ish to accompany an article I had written about the lyrics to Don McLean’s American Pie for the first website I created in 1996, The Octopus’s Garden. Republished here for the sake of an archive of that article. FEBRUARY 3, 1959: “Clear Lake, Iowa (UPI)- Following an appearance before 1000 fans at

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American Pie – The analysis and interpretation of Don McLean’s song lyrics

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1996-ish, what follows is an article I wrote out of a passion I had for the tune and lyrics, for a music history class. The republishing, here, is to retain, as an archive, the history of that publishing; it was the first of a few music related articles I used in the

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The relationship between John Lennon and the number 9

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1996-ish for the first website I created in 1996, The Octopus’s Garden. Republished here for the sake of an archive of that article. “Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, Number 9…“ Another of the Beatles recurring themes involved songs written by John Lennon. It seems that Lennon had a fascination with

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The Meaning of The Twelve Days of Christmas

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1996-ish for the first website I created in 1996, The Octopus’s Garden. Republished here for the sake of an archive of that article. One of our fondest Christmas carols, that which sings of lords leaping and turtle doves, may have little known roots in the Christian faith. As much as Christmas remains, fundamentally,

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Who is Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline?

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1996-ish for the first website I created in 1996, The Octopus’s Garden. Republished here for the sake of an archive of that article. We have all done it, some more than others; standing in a bar one evening, arm in arm with friends, singing along to Sweet Caroline. I happen to be in

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Puff the Magic Dragon – Marijuana References in the Song Lyrics

Sunday, 21 May 2000 by Paul O'Brien

First published in 1998-ish in a collection of music oriented articles I wrote for my first website, The Octopus’s Garden. Republished here for the sake of an archive of that article. Rumors abound that the Peter, Paul, and Mary children’s hit Puff the Magic Dragon is all about drugs, particularly marijuana yet The band claims

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