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Power Your Wordpress with Wordpress Power Pack 2008-10-30 16:12:00 I love to blog and I love blogging with Wordpress
. I even host my own Wordpress blog at GoDaddy. But as with so many other blogging systems, Wordpress, when it comes to themes, is just as frustrating. The default themes are just okay and the CSS and HTML code can be hacked so that something more attractive can be created--this assumes you have those skill. But if you don't
Embed a Digg Widget in Each Post 2008-10-26 13:54:00 I user Blogger.com and I wanted to add a Digg
widget to each of my posts, and while searching I came across one of the best tutorials on this. At the Tips for New Bloggers blog, there is an article called "Add Digg button to Blogger or Blogspot". What I like about this article is that it takes you step by step through the process, and shows a screen shot of the layout screen to a parti
Small Business: Scrapbooking 2008-10-25 12:34:00 My wife and I have decided to purchase an established small business that specializes in scrapbooking supplies. We have applied for a home equity loan rather than a small business loan because a small business loan has a higher interest rate and you need to pay it back much sooner. You can get up to a fifteen year home equity loan, but I think a small business loan requires you to pay Read more:Business
, Scrapbooking
, Small
, Small Business
Meaningless Blog Labels: "Ramblings" 2008-10-24 22:26:00 Many times while searching through online blog catalogs (e.g. BlogCatalog) I find blogs with titles containing, in some mix of phrase, the word "rambling", as in "My Ramblings" or "The Ramblings of [insert name here]". Some blogs even suggest that their contents both "ramble" and "wander", as in "My Ramblings and Wanderings." I don't know here whether the author meant to create a blog to dis Read more:Labels
Clancy's Book Picks 2008-10-23 15:33:00
I love books, and you can read a bit about my feelings for books on my new Clancy
's Book Picks blog. For each entry I include a picture and link to a book that I've read or am reading, and I write some bit of commentary about the book--or about something related to the book.
Now, I could certainly just enter on Amazon comments or reviews about books, but I like the personal touch of making
Twitter, Britney and Obama 2008-10-23 08:23:00
This morning, and I think this is because I listen to TWiT in the background, I subconsciously went to twitter and started following Britney
and Obama
. What's interesting is that if you follow Obama, you will automatically be followed by Obama's Twitter
. And what's also cool is that Obama has more that 100,0000 followers. I don't think that McCain has a twitter account. He
Chasing Flies 2008-10-15 11:21:00 On one day not too long ago I heard a clamoring at my front door. When I looked I saw Sydney, with fierce determination, jumping against the screen, barking and nipping at something just out of reach. I didn't see what it was, and I thought that perhaps she had become rabid or that she'd lost her little canine mind.
I stood there in the hallway fascinated. And without warning, s Read more:Chasing
, Flies
Get Your Mask On at Holloween Adventure 2008-10-13 22:51:00 It's that time of year when the leaves turn color, the weather begins to chill, and the sweet scent of Autumn permeates the air. It's also the time when children don costumes of all sorts, scurrying, with bags in hand, about the neighborhood seeking sweet treats.
Holloween is one of my favorite holidays and as it approaches, my wife and I had planned, as we do every year, to try and shop at Read more:Adventure
eHow: A Cool Way of Telling the World What You Know 2008-10-08 15:28:00
In my never ending search for really cool things, I came across a site called eHow that claims to be the site that informs you on "How To Do Just About Everything." They provide a free site where you can browse for answers to your questions, and if you're knowledgeable in something (or a bunch of things), you can write and post your own articles. In this blog entry I will be concentrating Read more:Telling
, World
The Cat, The Chipmunk and the Acorn 2008-09-30 17:43:00 Chipmunks. They're everywhere. And acorns all over the lawn. And squirrells. When I was growing up I lived in a home with a backyard that was mostly hill and trees--a tiny forest all to myself and my tiny imagination. And I'd see chipmunks and squirrels, (albeit briefly), scampering about the yard, foraging for acorns, and once I even tried to follow a chipmunk to get a better look, but alas, Read more:Chipmunk
Memory and Emotion 2008-09-29 09:28:00 So this morning I was thinking about my very poor memory and wondering why, over the past several years, it has been getting worse. For instance, take an event such as following a television program. I recall the episode and what occurred (mostly), but my recollection of the when the episode aired tends to be completely wrong. I might think that it aired at some point the prior season, but my w Read more:Emotion
, Memory
On the Move with MoveMe.Com 2008-09-23 09:33:00
Moving can be exciting. It's an adventure, a chance to begin again, a way to shed the old and embrace the new. But the very act of moving involves so much more than simply packing, hauling and unpacking. It's the very details themselves that can seem making a move insurmountable. First you'll probably want to get several mortgage quotes and choose the best one that fits your budget. You'll als
Viva la Purple 2008-09-16 16:57:00 Image via Wikipedia So this whole "green" thing appears to be everywhere. And it's not so bad, really. But it gets to be too much when we are inundated with messages and commercials and television programs, and of those who wag their fingers and admonish us for not being green.
But what (meaning one who practices conservation...recycling of materials, buying organic produce, using cruelty free Read more:Purple
The Criminal Justice Degree at Rasmussen College 2008-09-11 09:50:00
One of my many interests is law and so I was excited to have come across the the CriminalJustice
Degree and Paralegal programs at RasmussenCollege
. Fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, Rasmussen offers the same quality criminal justice program as other Universities and Colleges, and what is even more interesting and a delight for me to discover is that they offer degree p
Of Hyper Dogs and Big Rubber Balls 2008-09-05 15:36:00 Image via Wikipedia I have two Jack Russell puppies, Sydey and Applejax. They are precious to me. Sydney, however, suffers from various forms of anxiety and she is like lightening wrapped up in a tight, little package, and at any given moment will flash brilliantly to life, which is almost breathtaking to watch. And she jumps so very high, her hind legs, like pistons driven by al Read more:Balls
, Rubber
The Unibrow 2008-08-27 12:48:00 Image via Wikipedia Today I was thinking about unibrows. The thought. Because some of us (maybe all of us?) can grow a unibrow I wondered if early man, say australopithecines, without the use of razors, all walked about with unibrows. I suppose sharp, flint tools could have been used for grooming, but was grooming as important then as it is now? Also, do people today walk a
I'm a Thinker not a Doer 2008-08-26 16:41:00 Image via Wikipedia It's official. I've finally accepted the fact that I am a thinker and not a doer. In theory I can do things, and sometimes I actually do something. But my nature is for me to think, usually seated on the sofa or laying in bed. I call myself a thinker because it's more complementary than simply calling myself a lazy ass. Often times when I claim to
Wiki Wiki Wiki 2008-08-26 14:30:00 Image via Wiki
pedia I love wikis. I think everyone ought to have their own wiki. If for no other reason, it's simply fun to say. wiki..wiki..wiki. I could say wiki all say long, and often I say it to myself, over and over, until it means nothing.
So here are links to my wikis. Unfortunately I am using godaddy shared hosting and it has been pathetically slow.
J
My Company's Web Site 2008-08-17 22:42:00 Okay. It's not really a company. I've not incorporated, and I've sold nothing. But I have dreams. Big, big dreams... But alas, I don't remember what those dreams are.
Here is a link to my latest version of my web site. Read more:Web Site
Clouds and Sky and a Dirty SLR 2008-08-11 21:07:00 Image via WikipediaToday, as with every day this past week (I count a week by the number of days (e.g. 6 or 7) and not beginnings or ends...for me it's all continuous and "week" for me simply means a series of days), I've been outdoors and staring up at the sky. I had been taking pictures with my digital SLR, but I noticed something odd with the pictures. There is, in every picture on the upper Read more:Clouds
Of Servers and Wikis 2008-08-10 15:57:00 Image via WikipediaOver the weekend, I decided to revamp my hosted server (through GoDaddy) and to purchase another hosting server (both of these are shared, unfortunately) where I point my other domain, jcswiki.com.
My original web site was dated and, frankly, looked ugly. So I spent part of this weekend in Dreamweaver. I don't know it that well, but by using it I have learned Read more:Wikis
Procrastination Station 2008-08-03 14:01:00 Image via WikipediaProcrastination
. It's a skill I had mastered long ago, and I am proud to say to you today that I am, officially, a hardcore procrastinator. In fact you could call my lair the procrastination station, where all events arrive late just to happen even later. But why am I a procrastinator? And why does it take methylphenidate (Ritalin) just to motivate me? Well, in my opinion, R Read more:Station
Game Addiction: Is it Really So Bad? 2008-08-01 21:44:00 Image via WikipediaRecently I have been playing a game called Bejeweled 2 and I think that I am addicted to it. I don't usually become addicted to games. I mean I like to play games, especially computer games. In fact I am quite fond of Civilization IV and one of it's expansions, Warlords. I'm also partial to the Age of Empires series, and have spent many hours playing it a
Food Network: Searching for Stars 2008-11-15 15:45:00 I watched the recent The Next Food Network
Star, and I thought, if nothing else, that it was entertaining. I like food, I like stars, so what better thing to do then pair them. When the series began what had happened was what I expected to happen. While the candidates all seemed to be able to cook well, they bombed when they had to get in front of the camera. Fair enough.&n
The American Bank: Sodomites of the American Dream 2008-11-13 22:10:00 Today, after having waited three weeks for word about our loan application, PNC Bank called and in but a moment dashed our hopes and shattered our dreams. After a day of sadness and tears we sit here numb, each of us lost in thought, each of us contemplating our coming plight, wondering how we will survive the coming winter. A winter that will seem much colder to us. With our sav Read more:American
, Dream
Poll: Presidential Vote, Political Affiliation 2008-11-10 13:21:00 I'm curious to know who you voted for--Barack Obama, John McCain or Other--and what your political affiliation is: democrat, republican or other. See sidebar, far right. I have my reasons, and of course it is anonymous.
disclaimer: The poll answers are random and I imply nothing about my vote or affiliations.
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Some Art 2008-11-09 18:43:00 Here is some artwork.
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