How I lost my health insurance at the hairstylist's … [Read more...] about How I lost my health insurance at the hairstylist’s
New WordPress plugin; new WordPress site
My new Next Page plugin provides shortcodes and template tags for previous, next, and parent navigation in pages. It's a feature I've wanted for a while, and a post in the support forum finally made me figure out the code (and then rewrite it from scratch to make it work as a … [Read more...] about New WordPress plugin; new WordPress site
Previous and Next links for pages
Ever want to let your visitors browse your pages in order? You've probably discovered that previous_posts_link and next_posts_link don't work on pages. I've written a plugin, Next Page, to solve the problem. You'll get an options screen allowing you to specify the language of … [Read more...] about Previous and Next links for pages
Why you don’t need to roll your own link shortener
Everyone wants the shortest links possible, mostly thanks to Twitter. There are a number of tutorials on creating your own link shortening service, and for WordPress sites, the Link Shortcut plugin is the most popular option. You don't need it. If your domain (including the … [Read more...] about Why you don’t need to roll your own link shortener
Trying to be… V?
There have been jokes for years about Michael Jackson's plastic surgery, and how he'd never be as pretty as Diana Ross. I just found him painful to look at since he'd so drastically altered his face. Now, of course, the images are hard to escape, and I'm thinking it wasn't Diana … [Read more...] about Trying to be… V?
Free-market food fight
New college-educated NY street food vendors are doing Sharks vs. Jets with the old hot dog guys. "The owners of Street Sweets both left six-figure jobs to build their business, and the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck is driven by Doug Quint, a doctoral candidate in bassoon performance at … [Read more...] about Free-market food fight
“Try a Flash blocker.”
Why does Flash hog memory and crash your browser a lot? Because Adobe doesn't care, and thinks you should be using a Flash blocker in browsers other than IE, although admittedly it "Will still crash, but slower cycle." I have to agree with Mr. Welch: "Where the FUCK does Adobe … [Read more...] about “Try a Flash blocker.”
Fix Outlook
Email design is one of the most annoying aspects of my profession because design standards implemented by most web browsers in 1996 are still not supported in email clients. In Office 2000, Outlook actually did pretty well, but in Office 2007, Microsoft used not Internet … [Read more...] about Fix Outlook
Ela Thiel
'You're not a director. You're a girl.' … [Read more...] about Ela Thiel
Transformers 2 reviews
I'm having lots more fun reading reviews of Transformers 2 than I possibly could by watching the damn thing. And then there's the "id" part, which is the part where stuff blows up real good, and huge machines smash each other up. And every single performance is so ridiculous … [Read more...] about Transformers 2 reviews
