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A Brief Word on a Recent Post »

Some folks may notice that I changed my mind, and completely removed a controversial post.
I did so after considerable deliberation and thought; my intention is not to whitewash the very critical words I had for a certain project, and a couple of its members. (As if it’s not obvious whom I’m speaking of.)
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Bizarre Linux-WordPress-PodPress issue »

As there are legions of pages out there on the various “blank page” errors in WordPress, I’ll add my own experience here, in the hopes of helping others.
I run, on behalf of a client, a wide array of WordPress blogs using the excellent PodPress podcasting plugin.
Some of those blogs suddenly started experiencing the dread “blank [...]

Rockin’ the WaMu(Q.PK) »

I still can’t believe that WaMu (Washington Mutual) wasn’t delisted entirely from the markets, but it’s still trading on the pink sheets. AND I’M NOW THE PROUD OWNER OF THIRTY SHARES!
On Day One of BD’s Excellent WaMu Adventure, my buy-in price of just under nine cents per share has become fourteen cents a share….AND SOME [...]

Playing the Dead-Stock Market »

I’m attempting to buy a couple shares of WaMu stock ahead of their total delisting from the NYSE. I’ll post further as I have more details.
I think dead-stock certificates are the stamp collecting of the 21st Century.
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Another new browser to design around… »

I know, I know, Google’s Chrome browser will use WebKit, which means it’ll render somewhat close to Safari.
But we all know it ain’t going to be perfect. And the magic of the Google brand will induce at least a million people to switch overnight, mark my words.
So now, a web designer has to work around [...]

My faith in the intertubes has been restored. »

Instant Rimshot
Sad Trombone (though the noise is actually made with a trumpet and a plunger-mute.)
I’ll be annoying everybody with these for a couple days, just as a matter of principle.
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Things Younger than McCain »

From the site: “The Nacho is younger than John McCain. For the first seven years of his life, John McCain lived in a cold, dark, lonely, nacho-less world.”
http://www.thingsyoungerthanmccain.com/
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MLB Extra Innings = Sucks »

I like baseball, as those of you who know me personally know well. It’s pretty much the only sport I care about, and the only one I bother watching on television.
A few months back, I got the bright idea to try MLB’s Extra Innings package, thinking I’d get to watch games out of market at [...]

Steve Ballmer Egg Attack! »

Fire eggs at Microsoft’s bombastic egghead CEO in this fun –and challenging– flash game: [link]
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Obama is not Kennedy, and these aren’t the 60’s »

There’s an op-ed in the NY Times today making a rather puerile and pointless attempt to link Barack Obama to the more frivolous aspects of the character of the nation’s 35th President, John F. Kennedy.
Drawing some very tenuous parallels between JFK’s rocky first meeting with Nikita Krushchev, who opined of Kennedy that he was “too [...]