Archive for the ‘geeky’ Category
May 24th, 2008 by
Miss604
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The latest in my WordPress Screencast series is a quick look into how I get captions under my photos in order to give proper attribution. This is basically just the “behind the scenes” setup of the plugins. Once this is setup it’s as easy as clicking the quicktag for the alignment you want then filling [...]
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May 23rd, 2008 by
Miss604
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You know when you hear a song and don’t know the words so you make up some lyrics in your head to sing along to? Well it turns out the lyrics of Weezer’s new song Pork and Beans are just that, “I eat my candy with my pork and beans.” So yeah, I’m not crazy.
With [...]
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Posted in geeky, internet, music, vancouver, youtube
May 20th, 2008 by
Miss604
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One of the best things about Web 2.0 in my opinion is open source development. Partnered with Creative Commons Licensing, you are often free to build, re-work and share your contributions to an original work through public collaboration.
WordPress is a shining example of an open source project, meaning folks are free to build their own [...]
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May 15th, 2008 by
Miss604
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My husband and I have a special relationship, one in which he tags things for me in del.icio.us during the day, I check them out later and find great blogging material for a link fest *swoon*.
- 13 of the best WordPress plugins - I’m currently using several on the list and I have to say, [...]
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Posted in geeky, internet, link fest, podcast, twitter, wordpress
May 14th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Due to my frustration over missing a few categories in recent posts, I cried out on Twitter this morning about how I’m not too keen on the new placement of the Categories box in the latest version of WordPress. Kulpreet Singh (who presented at WordCamp) came to the rescue with his hack to the edit-form-advanced.php, [...]
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May 12th, 2008 by
Miss604
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This evening I was doing a Flickr search using the term “Bollwitt” to try and locate a cute shot of John and me. Sorting the results by most recent I came across the Flickr account of a website called w00tpwnage, which compares everything from Tiger vs Alligator, Wolf vs Wolverine, Astro Boy vs Mighty Mouse, [...]
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Posted in blogs, geeky, girlie, internet
May 10th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Due to family business this morning (which always comes before the blogging world) I had to miss about 85% of DrupalCamp Vancouver.
The good news is that John was here all day and the first words out of his mouth when he saw me were, “whoa! there’s some really cool theming going on.” This leads [...]
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May 9th, 2008 by
Miss604
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Here are a few more tips and tricks that I’ve come across in the Twitter microblogging community:
Twemes: First introduced at DemoCamp by Rochelle Grayson, Twemes is a website that comprehensively sorts and categorizes the things people Twitter about as long as they put a hashtag in front of it. Example, those currently at DrupalCamp Vancouver [...]
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Posted in geeky, internet, twitter, vancouver