I’ve wanted to create a plugin for WordPress for some time now. I have plenty of ideas for them (mostly scholarly or academic uses). The only problem is I don’t have enough knowledge of how WordPress operates to really accomplish that. What I know about PHP is not much. However, I was a biology major …read more…
It’s kind of funny how things happen, isn’t it? I was at my parents’ house this morning, and read an article in Vanity Fair magazine called “How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo“. It’s an interesting read, and if half of what’s in that article is true, that is one screwed-up company. Of course, none of that …read more…
When publishing images to the web, you should usually use either .png or .jpg formats. The major difference between the two is that .jpg employs a lossy compression method, meaning that you can create smaller files by using a larger amount of compression, but you image quality will suffer. On the other hand, .png employs …read more…
Self-government won’t work without self-discipline. —Paul Harvey I never was a fan of Paul Harvey. He segued from news to ads so smoothly that many of his listeners didn’t realize that he was advertising a product, rather than just talking about something he tried out. Pretty deceptive, if you ask me. Still, I found the …read more…
Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told, from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it’s nothing. It’s just bibble-babble. It’s like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.
Harlan Ellison
I was reading this over on Boing Boing (while waiting for an oil change at PepBoys; thanks for the free wi-fi): Ninth Circuit to DEA: putting a gun to an 11-year-old’s head is not OK – Boing Boinghttp://boingboing.net/2012/06/18/ninth-circuit-to-dea-putting.htmlThe Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals told the DEA that holding a gun to an 11-year-old girl’s head …read more…
Since migrating to a new (different, anyway), I’ve switched completely over to OpenOffice, instead of using Microsoft Office. Nothing against MSO, really: it’s a fine product with a high learning curve and an even higher price tag. OpenOffice is open source, which has both an attractive price tag and an even more attractive philosophy behind …read more…
My alma mater, Western Michigan University, participates with Experience to help students and graduates find jobs. In an ideal world, this would mean good employment opportunities are being delivered to your inbox every day, but this is far from an ideal world. When I set up my account, I specified that they should let me …read more…
…and I got this message: which is so cool I had to tweet about it: Just upgraded to WordPress 3.4. Oh, yeah! #blog #blogging #wordpress #awesome — Professor O'Riarty (@iswpw) June 14, 2012 But this is the sucky part: As cool as those new Twitter embeds are, there’s no way to center them, or …read more…
OMG! Is that an Apple Newton he’s holding?
OMG! — all those words are spelled correctly!
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