Archive for the ‘Miscellany’ Category

Mac OS X Snow Leopard – NotificationExec Pop Up Annoyance

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

snowleopardJust installed Mac OS X 10.6 on my home iMac. It was truly a perfectly painless experience…click about 4 buttons and type your password and walk away for 45 minutes.

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Dilbert – Successful Work Avoider

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

My gosh, these are good!  Enjoy!

Dilbert.com

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.8.1

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

wpI’ve upgraded three sites to WordPress 2.8.1.  None of them missed a beat.  Also, PhotoSmash seems completely unfazed by its new bedfellow.

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Supple Forms – Quick Start Guide

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

This is a quick start guide to get you up and running with Supple Forms as fast as humanly possible. Supple Forms is a CMS plugin for WordPress that lets you add custom data to posts and pages. It is both powerful and simple to use. If you need something like this, it might just be what you’re looking for.

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Excel Spreadsheet of US States

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Here’s a simple Excel spreadsheet of US States and their abbreviations.  I don’t know how many times I’ve recreated this blooming thing.  I just found myself, once again trying to find a decent table of states to put into my Supple Forms states drop down list, and after ten minutes and finally getting it into an nice Excel table, I figured it was time to memorialize it forever here.  So, no more hunting around.  Here you go:

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Hosting a Plugin on WordPress with Aptana and Subclipse- pt 3

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Welcome back to part 3….and 4 ;-) of the video series on how to host a WordPress plugin using Aptana and Subclipse to accomplish the Subversion gymnastics.  If you haven’t already done so, check out Part 1 and Part 2 of this series now.

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The American Dream

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

This post departs from WhyPad’s usual fare, but when history is being made, you must wade into the river before it passes you by.

Today, America and the world stand  together in the midst of economic, political, and social ruin.  It would be unfair to blame this on any one person, nation, religion, or lack thereof.  We are all culpable to some extent, and it will take all of us to turn back this dark tide.  But also today, here in the midst of this dark time, America is holding out the epitome of the American dream with the inauguration of Barack Obama as our 44th president.

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Happy 2009!

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Fireworks over Friendship by snowrider on Flickr

Fireworks over Friendship by snowrider on Flickr

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