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I put together a short screencast in order to illustrate the problems that can arise as one adds functionality (customizes) their WordPress install, and WordPress builds that same functionality into its new versions (standardizes).
Click on the screenshot below to view or download the video. It’s 720p HD (1280×720 pixels), so your computer may not be [...]
You are about to see several panoramic photos that have taken me well over 35 hours to create — and I’m not counting travel time, setup time, time it took to take the photos, and the time it took to write this post.
A couple of weekends ago, Ligia and I got into our MINI and [...]
I came to the realization that too much work around the clock is not a sustainable lifestyle. When you hold down a full-time job, write on two websites, have a consulting practice and you’re also a photographer, there’s little time to decompress. And I’m determined to carve out more time for relaxation. I have to. [...]
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Lightroom 1.4 Update is Pulled http://tinyurl.com/2wg9e6 #
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Time Machine: [...]
I’ve been helping Ligia launch her re-designed personal site over the past several days. While my own site may seem a little quiet (except for the regular Condensed Knowledge posts), I’ve been quite busy behind the scenes.
Ligia has been working on her own line of greeting cards since January. She makes them by hand, from [...]
I have completed the work of replacing photos hosted with third-party services. All of the photos that are published on my site are now hosted locally. If you’re not familiar with this effort, which took me a few months to complete, you might want to have a look at parts four, three, two and one. [...]
» Go to this postThis is a bit of a rant, but a recent comment on one of my articles reminded of an argument I sometimes hear as a consultant. It goes something like this: “But what happens if you die?” I cringe when I hear it — not because I can’t defend it — because I find it [...]
» Go to this postI thought that when I lived in Florida, the construction there was shoddy. I was wrong. At least there they used concrete pillars and floors for the houses, and the building code was so strict everything was anchored properly, especially after Hurricane Andrew. When I moved to the DC area, I thought construction would be [...]
» Go to this postThis is Part 3 of an ongoing series of posts that outlines the work I do behind the scenes to improve my blog’s content. You can read Parts 1 and 2 as well.
I continued my work of replacing photos hosting with third party services with self-hosted ones. Here are the posts I modified:
The sun [...]
» Go to this postIt’s a bit unusual for me that I can’t find the time to write posts here at ComeAcross, but that’s just what’s happening. I left home shortly after noon on Friday with Ligia to go camping with close friends of ours in the Blue Ridge mountains. Had loads of fun, and we visited Natural Bridge. [...]
» Go to this postI’ve been on hold with Microsoft for the past 1:40 minutes, and I’m going nuts. I think it’s an intended effect. They want to completely pound our brains into mush by the time we speak with tech reps. Either that, or the people who planned their hold music and hold messages are complete ninnies who’ve [...]
» Go to this postThese days it’s really easy to be a content creator. The tools are all there, whether you want to focus on words, images, audio or video. Self-publishing has really taken off, and the line between content creators and content consumers is starting to get very blurred — if it’s even there at all.
But as it [...]
