I use a digital scale all the time, mainly because I buy a lot of ingredients in bulk, and if I didn’t have a scale, I would have to guess as to what constitutes a pound of beans. Bakers prefer to weigh flour because it is more accurate than measuring it by volume, and I …read more…
Spammers Suck! and so do you…
Amazing that an anti-spam plugin author would spam in the #WordPress forums. #irony "If you do it, it's spam; if I do it, it's promotion." — Professor O (@iswpw) May 27, 2013 You can read about it in the WordPress forum here. Kind of ironic that someone who is promoting an anti-spam plugin would resort …read more…
I’m a Red Shirt!
So I took the Which Star Trek Character Are You? quiz that Jeff Baker offers on his web site. Guess what? I’m a red shirt! And proud of it! (I think.) Your results: You are An Expendable Character (Redshirt) An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 90% Spock 84% Geordi LaForge 75% Jean-Luc Picard 65% Data 64% James …read more…
Protected: How Facebook Became Meaningless to Me
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And that is that…
For the first time in a long time, I didn’t bring any work home with me this weekend. I’m just beat and I needed a break, so I took one. This is what happened. Saturday, I went to the music store and spent money I didn’t have on a book of bass chords and another …read more…
New Personal Home Page
For the past ten years or so, I’ve always used my own index.htm file as the homepage for all my browsers, adding to it the links I visit the most. Over the years I added and deleted links, and occasionally tweaked the css, but for the past few years, it’s been pretty static. I recently …read more…
I’m in Brazil!
No, not really. But that’s what Facebook apparently thinks. After I logged out the other day, I noticed this ad: “Okay…” I thought. Let’s find out about that special rate. So I clicked and this is what the big blue FB showed me: Sadly, that’s funny for me, but not for Claro Brasil. After all, …read more…
In which I (kind of) learn how to create a WordPress plugin
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…
Don’t need none of this Microsoft mojo
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…
