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Feb 8, 2012, 1:43 pm
One of the coolest things about developing especially when working with an open source product like WordPress, is that if you have a problem the chances are that someone else has already developed a solution for it.
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Feb 7, 2012, 9:41 pm
A change of plan for this months Gulf Coast WordPress Meetup. As our numbers are still quite small, instead of meeting at the University of Alabama library, we shall have the meetup at my house.
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Jan 31, 2012, 2:44 pm
I'm twenty-seven different kinds of nervous today as we await the decision on whether or not we'll get the house we want to live in for the next few years, so thinking about this piece of brain candy has served as a pleasant albeit brief distraction.
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Jan 18, 2012, 12:13 pm
Today it feels like the entire internet is rallying against SOPA & PIPA. We’re certainly part of that, encouraging our users to take action and make their voice heard by displaying banners on all our sites and posting about it on every property we own, even those that have nothing to do with techn... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2012, 11:10 am
At midnight last night Sara and I sat on the couch and kissed as we watched the clock tick down to midnight in Chicago. Why Chicago you might ask? Why not Mobile?
For those of you who don't know, Chicago was where Sara and I met for the first time in real life so we find it fitting that we watch the... Comment - Like
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Dec 30, 2011, 12:19 pm
The copyright was was just the beginning. - Recorded at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSgThe last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be domi... Comment - Like
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Dec 20, 2011, 6:49 pm
No matter where I’ve lived outside of Ireland, one thing that’s always irked me was (without going to rare specialty stores) the ability to get proper Irish brown bread, bacon, beans, and black and white pudding.
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Dec 20, 2011, 4:56 pm
Those of you who didn't grow up in Ireland in the 70's and 80's won't appreciate this or remember Bosco, but for me, this trailer has ruined my childhood in a very wonderful way.
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Dec 20, 2011, 1:14 pm
Is W3 Total Cache still in development for WordPress or has it been abandoned?
W3 Total Cache is one of those really cool WordPress plugins that everybody who's serious about WordPress knows about, and even a lot of people who just have a passing knowledge have at least heard of it. It's one of the ... Comment - Like
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Dec 16, 2011, 8:51 am
Famous people die every day and I most certainly don’t write about them here, but the passing of Christopher Hitchens is one that touches me, very deeply, as in recent years more than anybody he has provided the insights and perhaps the standard to which I wish to aspire as an atheist and I suppos... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 12:26 pm
... its way to a slaughterhouse. In the incident, caught on camera, officers ... away.
Const. Pierre Lanthier defending the action, saying police “have to ... if it’s threatening for the population” and, in this case ... no choice but to shoot the animal.”
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Oct 30, 2011, 4:57 pm
There's a zombie walk happening in downtown Mobile this afternoon and these are some shots of Sara and I as we zombify ourselves in preparation.
The shots aren't the best - the details are hard to see, such as the gunshots and leg bite wounds, hopefully we'll get better ones when we're there or aft... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 8:17 pm
Anybody who’s been following my Twitter stream probably knows that I’m disturbed by recent events here in the U.S, such as the introduction of the E-PARASITES / PROTECT-IP act and the Stop Online Piracy Act – “SOPA”.
I’m not the only one concerned, and Mathew Ingram over at GigaOm even ... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2011, 3:04 pm
In a passionate speech at the Web 2.0 summit, 4chan founder Christopher “moot” Poole says that Google and Facebook “do identity wrong,” and that people should not be tied to just one identity on the web. He doesn’t really propose solutions, but he brings a lot of valuable food for tho... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2011, 9:34 pm
Sara and I are huge “Tucker & Dale vs Evil” fans and have been pimping it ever since we first saw an unfinished work print. The movie has won a bunch of awards since it’s release and has even more nominations but for some reason it couldn’t get distribution here in the U.S. Needless to say... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 10:49 am
We had that massive tipping debacle and discussion break out over on Geek Is Awesome yesterday (which is still going with over 80K stumbles, 360+ Facebook shares and masses of comments at the time of writing) during which, as she tweeted last night, Sara got called a bitch no less than four times ... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2011, 5:36 pm
We're using Facebook comments on some of our sites and it's working great, commenting on those sites has increase immensely but I must say that the pattern matching for blacklisted words sucks royal ass.
We're using the "standard Facebook restrictions" to keep things relatively clean but I have ... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2011, 12:00 pm
Tipping is one of those weird American customs that us Europeans have a hard time with, that and not having the sales tax automatically included in the display price.
Pretty much everywhere I've lived you pay the price that's on the menu and walk out. Gratuity is included in the price as the staff... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2011, 9:26 pm
I just has this “live chat” with Hostable‘s “24/7 Technical Support”. It was 5:30pm their time (7:30pm mine) when the conversation took place, and as you guys already know I think Hostable’s support is basically shite.
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Oct 7, 2011, 11:30 am
Author Neil Gaiman encourages us to spread the gift of terror (and reading) this Halloween by given our loved ones scary books to go with the candy and Zombie teeth.
I love this idea.
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Oct 6, 2011, 6:26 pm
I didn’t know it was possible to get this excited about a microphone, but since I ordered my Yeti a few days ago I grew, well, damn impatient waiting for it to arrived.
Now that it has arrived all I can say is that the waiting and anticipation have been worth it. Judging by the few short tests I... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2011, 10:55 am
I honestly think I have known these people and I fear that one day my coffee addiction will lead me to become one of them (without working at a coffee shop I hope).
Of course, none of this is helped by the fact that my percolator decided that this morning would be a great time to screw up, overflow ... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2011, 5:10 pm
Apparently there’s a book of epic bastards and I’m in it!
Okay, not really, but among the many excellent gifts, cards and wishes I received yesterday during the awesome day (thank you so much Sara) that was my birthday was this image posted to my Facebook wall.
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Oct 3, 2011, 4:40 pm
Last Monday, Sara and I made our way to Birmingham for TechMixer University. The conference itself was on the Tuesday but being a 4 hour drive we headed up the night before in order to be there for the 7:30 am kickoff.
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Sep 27, 2011, 7:14 am
Awake, showered and looking forward to attending and speaking at TechMixer University today. Looks like there’s a lot of great folks covering a lot of wide range of cool topics (secuirty, cloud, development, mobile) and I’m speaking 2:55 to 4:10 if you’re in the Birmingham area and fancy ... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2011, 8:49 am
Facebook’s F8 conference is later today and Mashable’s Ben Parr has managed to write an almost 500 word wank fest where he says nothing more than “I’ve seen it, you haven’t, everything else is shite and I’m in love with Zuck” (okay maybe he didn’t say he was in love with Zuckerbe... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2011, 4:32 pm
I was having kind of a bad day today and really needed something to make me laugh, then Pandora started playing this - Big Balls by AC/DC.
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Sep 21, 2011, 7:57 am
Disclaimer – I am one of the small publishers that automates updates to my FB pages as mentioned below.
I just logged in to Facebook to see the image below at the top of my profile, touting that Facebook has now made it easier to see “my news” as they’ve put the tops stories since my last... Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2011, 4:14 pm
In the first 10 minutes of the British, secular, rationalist, skeptical, somewhat lefty-liberal (see why I like it?) podcast Pod Delusion #102, Paul Day explains why Jesus will be the next president of the United States.
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Sep 9, 2011, 6:23 pm
The hashtag is in the title for a reason – so that you, or I, won’t forget it.
Yesterday evening Sara and I attended the first (well, the first in 3 years) WordPress users group in Mobile, AL.
Put together by David Sullivan (@SullivanDavid), and held in the University of South Alabama Libra... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2011, 12:58 pm
BABY BOOMERS. Y U NO UNDERSTAND INTERNET?!?
I’ve facepalmed (if you don’t understand “facepalm” then don’t even bother reading this rant… it will go right over your head) at least 20 times while trying to put the words together to express the level of idiocy being displayed by the NAACP... Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2011, 8:34 am
Facebook’s Like button, it’s universal tool for web domination, is broke again. Well, at least the full “box count” version is and isn’t displaying properly on any website I’ve visited this morning and that includes the Facebook Developers page for configuring the button.
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Aug 26, 2011, 11:05 pm
Apparently there was some confusion about the header image of this site, where people thought the zombie creature chasing the man was supposed to be Sara chasing me.
Actually, the images was a take on the “Caution, zombies may be flammable” meme, so I’ve added a little colour and some text to... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2011, 12:31 pm
I'm a huge Nirvana fan. Their music was part of the "formative" years of my actually having musical taste and back in the day I used to attempt to make myself deaf as I listened to bootlegged tapes of their early work, volume turned to maximum as I trudge to and from school.
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Aug 25, 2011, 11:41 am
I came across this video while reading about the performance impact of earthquakes on hard drives and websites. Yes, I am that boring.
What you will see in the video below applies to you folks at home too and especially to angry gamers.
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Aug 24, 2011, 10:31 am
While I think the roll out of the new galleries for Twitter are years overdue, it would be nice if they did not display images which were linked in tweets I’ve retweeted as being mine.
For example, this image which was linked in an status update which I retweeted from @SyFy appears on my profile... Comment - Like
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Aug 21, 2011, 4:57 pm
Earlier today Steven Hodson and I recorded an episode of the WinExtra on Windows podcast.
It looks like (based on the reception of this episode) the WinExtra on Windows podcast may be getting a revival (even though Daily Brief remains dead) and I must admit that it was nice to get back behind the m... Comment - Like
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Aug 20, 2011, 6:45 pm
Heading to see Fright Night with Sara in a few minutes. I really hope this remake does the original justice... and not just because David (Doctor Who) Tennant is playing the role of Peter Vincent.
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Aug 20, 2011, 5:17 pm
Sara and I dropped by the "Wigen man cave" last night to hang out with everyone, do a little grilling and partake in the usual madness and fun that always seems to occur there.
We got to catch up with friends who we haven't seen for a while and also got to hear Heather's uncle Paul and Gabe recoun... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2011, 2:48 pm
I squealed with joy when I saw this. Zombies in space!!! I can't wait.
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Aug 18, 2011, 9:35 am
Yesterday was an awesome day. Not only was it highly productive but Sara and I got to attend RiffTrax Live, which was absolutely a hilarious and my first introduction to RiffTrax.
I haven’t laughed that hard in months.
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Aug 16, 2011, 3:40 pm
Battlefield 3 - So, yeah... do want!
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Aug 16, 2011, 11:13 am
Is there a growing divide between the intelligent and the knuckle draggers of human kind?
Before going further let me clarify that whenever I refer to “smart” or intelligent”, it should not be confused with educated. In many cases the result of an education is little more than a piece of pa... Comment - Like
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