opinion-and-editorial
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Gliffy, an online replacement for Visio
Gliffy is an online diagram service that lets you create charts, flow charts, wireframe models, business process models and other similar things. It is more commonly used as a generic visio replacement. It works on the browser and you can create stuff before you even have to sign up. There are free accounts and premium…
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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Ten of my favorite Soren K. Quotes. During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself. Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. I…
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How to Completely Uninstall WP-e-commerce shopping cart plugin.
I’ve been working on two sites to bring forward a shop. One of the sites is solely based on wp-e-commerce and wordpress and the shop functions will be in a catalog format. The other site will only have shopping functions, like “add to cart” or “buy now”. I have to do testing a lot to…
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Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize, my couple of thoughts.
I read this morning, its on twitter and everywhere else. Woohoo, our President was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But really? Does he deserve it? I admire the guy, for the most part and as far as my limited knowledge of politics and world diplomacy goes, he’s doing great things. Muhammed Yunnus Nelson Mandela…
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Parrots in Irvine
Seriously, who would have thought you’d find parrots in Irvine? During the earlier weeks of summer and a little bit before, I would hear and see parrots all over the park near my house. Picasso got scared a few times when they would make noise as we walked under the eucalyptus trees where they hung…
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Went to Ellen’s show. Ho hum.
Yesterday I got a chance to go watch The Ellen Show. Well, kinda, let me step back just a bit. My wife asked me recently if I wanted to go and watch Ellen, Helen’s a big fan of her so I thought: Why not, it should be fun. I like Ellen, and I think she’s…
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Google Sidewiki. Awesome.
I just read about Google’s Sidewiki and after watching the short demo video, I think this is awesome. Many other services have come along to try to do this, including some firefox extensions but with Google’s huge userbase, I think this will be the winner. yeah I can see comments about a website on StumbleUpon,…
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More simplification, ACE plugin removed.
Recently I’ve been battling with a couple of issues on my site. I’ve been wanting to customize it and make it stand out from the rest but every time I got to the point where I need to pick the content to show in different places, I would run into strange 404 pages. For example,…
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Alias your cd commands and save time
When you’re bouncing around from one directory to another in Linux or OSX, or even Cygwin in windows, remember you can use alias to save you time. For example, I’ve been working a lot on these two directories in my pxeboot server[1]. Typing those in each time, using tabs, and even using relative paths can…
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Alias your cd commands and save time
When you’re bouncing around from one directory to another in Linux or OSX, or even Cygwin in windows, remember you can use alias to save you time. For example, I’ve been working a lot on these two directories in my pxeboot server ((The xxxx is just a placeholder)). Typing those in each time, using tabs,…