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  • Jenny and Jai

    Last weekend, we found out that two friends of ours — mothers of our kids’ classmates — were involved in a domestic dispute that left the two of them in the hospital in critical condition from multiple gunshot wounds. Full news reports here and here. What happened was horrid and devastating and both women not…

  • Historic

    Tomorrow is Solstice — during which we won’t be using electricity (at least as much as possible) — and then we’re driving up to Washington. Before I go offline for the next couple days, I wanted to take a minute to acknowledge a historic event that happened today in Utah. A Federal Supreme Court Judge…

  • Two things you pay for when you hire a developer

    No matter what else you may pay for when you hire a developer, you will always be paying for these two things: 1) Their time. Every developer I know is busy, including myself. That means, in order for something to be good enough for them to stop whatever else it is that they are working…

  • There I go again…

    So, today the WordPress 3.8 Admin Help team met up in #wordpress-sfd — a fact that I would have forgotten entirely about had I not been at my computer coding at the time . Siobhan and one other made the meeting. That was fine. You may recall I mentioned something a while ago about getting involved…

  • I’m speaking at WCSLC

    I’m presenting again at WordCamp SLC. This time on internationalization in WordPress, something fresh on my mind from having just finished my last Pluralsight course on the same topic.

  • WordPress, Genericons, Jetpack and you

    Here’s something I learned the hard way today. If you are using Genericons in your WordPress theme, and you’re enqueueing it like this: wp_register_style(‘genericons’,get_template_directory_uri().’/genericons/genericons.css’,false,$theme[‘Version’]); wp_enqueue_style( ‘genericons’ ); …you’re going to run into problems if Jetpack is enabled, because Jetpack uses the same method. Normally this wouldn’t be that much of an issue, but their version of…

  • New game show idea

    New game show idea: Cooking/dance competition Contestants must cook a meal (think Iron Chef) while their favorite music is playing. Music must be danceable, and contestants are expected to dance while cooking. A panel of judges scores the contestants based on their dancing as well as the quality of the food. Contestants lose points if…

  • July 4th: Protest NSA Spying

    On the 4th the Internet Defense League is launching the Cat Signal in protest of PRISM and NSA spying on American citizens. Seems like a good time to download my Cat Signal plugin for WordPress, if you haven’t already. Thunderclap: July 4th: Protest NSA Spying.

  • Cat Signal on Post Stat.us

    Brian posted a link to Cat Signal on Post Status. It may not be the same thing (yet) as being Dugg but it’s still pretty cool. I still need to write up a post on how and why I wrote the plugin… Cat Signal: An advocacy plugin for the Internet Defense League : Post Status.

  • This is The Next Day. Same as the last day.

      The Next Day enters the UK album charts at #1 You know, I realize there’s a story behind the album cover for David Bowie’s new record, and it’s all introspective and about how you can never really live up to stuff you’ve done in the past, but every time I look at it, all…