opinion-and-editorial
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Recent Updates to WordPress
Hi Folks, don’t forget to update your WordPress sites. WordPress 3.1 is out and ready to go. As usual, after a major WordPress update, you’ll find tons of plugins get a new version as well. So far I’ve had to update these plugins, but I expect to have another dozen or two updated in the…
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One of my Favorite Kinetic Typography Videos
I think this is the speech: My name is Lt. Aldo Raine and I’m putting together a special team, and I need me eight soldiers. Eight Jewish-American soldiers. Now, y’all might’ve heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we’ll be leaving a little earlier. We’re gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And…
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Another Alter Ego
As if I don’t have enough online accounts… I have created yet another one. This one, I hope will be a bit more focused on technology. I’m also trying something else new and trying to tap into the community surrounding the account so they can participate. I’m going to take it slowly but hopefully it…
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I’m finally on the front page in Google.
After almost a year of trying, I finally got on the front page in Google for the term I’ve wanted. Its not #1… yet, but #5 is better than 40+. I think I’ll share more once I get to #1. For the time being, I’m just excited about this. To be honest, I had put…
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WordPress — get_bookmarks VS wp_list_bookmarks
Recently I decided to replace a small piece of content on my about page where I listed all the links to the different profiles I have throughout the internet. Sites like Flickr, Delicious, Twitter, StumbleUpon. I got pretty tired of going into the code of the post and replacing the links whenever they changed or…
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My Favorite Plugins
I had this grandiose scheme on how I was going to show you all the cool plugins and their features and bells and whistles, but then it was taking forever so here is the quick and dirty version of it. My favorite Plugins, Volume I, Episode I. Hope you find it useful. No promises on…
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Read between the lines and dont make my mistakes.
Prosper recently had to freeze all new activity on the site due to some Federal regulations. Read more about that here ). Even more recently, yesterday I received a number of e-mails notifying me that some loans had been charged off. I have been waiting for this to happen, and I’m glad I can finally…
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Pictures from our Honeymoon. Italy.
For those of you keeping track, we recently (my Wife and I, along with two of our good friends), went to Italy to celebrate our honeymoon and to enjoy a much needed vacation. I wish I had more time to tell you all about it and I intend to do it over the next few…
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First look at Rockmelt. Stream of consciousness analysis.
I was excited this morning when I opened my inbox and found an invitation to start using RockMelt. A new browser that promises to wrangle your Social Media activity in the browser. In contrast to similar functionality, Hootsuite is a webapp, and to some degree it takes care of your social media activity but its…
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WordPress 3.1, closer to full custom post types in the UI.
WordPress 3.1 is supposed to be out soon, as usual there are many fixes coming out and I think they’re mostly improvements to the UI. One of them is this new thing called Post Formats. I think it is in fact one step closer to providing users with a custom-post-types interface without having to use…