Congratulations! You’ve finally made the leap into the world of streaming media players. Personally I think the Roku is super slick. But I had this experience the other day, when trying to set one up for a friend of mine, that almost put the kibosh on our Bomb Girls. (yes, that’s right, I said Bomb [...]
If you’re using Disqus, which I highly recommend for managing your WordPress blog comments, you are probably serving up ads at the bottom of your posts and not realizing it. I got alerted to this when a client contacted me with a simple message: “WTF?” I dug around a little and noticed that this same [...]
For the past few months I’ve been living and working abroad. Basically hotel hopping between Philly, Dusseldorf and Kiev. It’s sort of like living like a monk. Except for the booze. The late night dinners. And the strippers. But beyond that, there has been time to explore a few games on the iPhone. Here’s what’s [...]
I’m sitting here listening to an Underworld song. I just spent 5 minutes scanning my iTunes for something that fits my mood. I spent another 3 minutes flipping through my Pandora. Nothing I land on seems to be working. I’m in one of THOSE moods where only the right balance of techno, booze and Red Bull [...]
I woke up this morning with an email from my friend. I’ve just been informed, and have subsequently added, one of the best WordPress plugins I’ve seen since WP Touch made your blog mobile friendly. Send to Kindle. When you add this button to your blog your readers can click it and your post will [...]
I’m boring. My favorite things to give as gifts, aside from $1 lottery tickets, are books. Yea, that’s right. I said it. What sort of doofus gives people books for Christmas? This doofus. So shoot me. A few years ago through Audible and Kindle my consumption of books was radically increased. I started keeping lists [...]
So you finally bit the bullet and built out a mobile version of your website. Congrats! Now the question becomes how to install the mobile redirect code / script into your hosted WordPress? For those of you who use WordPress for sites other than blogs, adding this code might be a head scratcher. The instructions [...]
Do you have something you’re supposed to get written? Do you need to write a letter, blog post, novel, screenplay, business plan? Does life keep getting in the way? How in the heck, with family, job, money, work do we find the time, and the cognitive surplus to write? Prepare to be amazed. I’m about to show [...]
Oh woe, is me. To be shackled to a story until either the story beats you, or you beat it. It’s a pitiful state to be in. The choice; self-imposed as it is, from freedom, to write a novel. Tis but gloomy prospects for the witless. Nothing more than a holy war for the masochist. An endless [...]
You can please some of the people some of the time. But a poorly managed software release pisses everyone off every time. I recently witnessed such a train wreck. The company will remain nameless. Suffice it to say, there is still blood on the tracks. Versioning your software is absolutely necessary. Versioning your website is equally [...]
Not exactly. I’ve been slammed with questions about the Internet shutting down on Monday. Fact: The Internet is NOT shutting down. Some DNS servers are being shut down. You can hop onto legitimate DNS servers in a few easy steps if you need to. However, when I click through my resources I’m not seeing cohesive [...]
Oh my god we’ve evolved! You may have heard that Emoji is now natively supported on your iPhone. By “Native” I mean Free. No jailbreak necessary either. Everyone else around me seems to have found this out long before I did. Oh well. Sometimes…yes…I live under a rock. What is Emoji, you ask? Emoji lets [...]
While drinking beer and basically making nuisances of ourselves the other night I noticed my friend’s phone LED would flash each time he got a text, call or email. At first it looked like he had attached some 3rd party aftermarket bling to his phone. But it was not so. If you’re familiar with the [...]
This has been an issue I’ve run into during the last 3 installs of WordPress on 1and1. I’ve sought out this issue online and have found zippo written. Maybe I should be using the automated installer that 1and1 offers? Oh wait, I can’t seem to find that feature anymore. 1and1 keeps changing their dashboard. I [...]
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