Here’s a heads-up for Markdown users.
Looking through my Categories and Archives views, I was startled to see raw, unconverted Markdown syntax in certain posts. Tags:markdown wordpressShareThis
Sitting in a bus, an Airbus, or your dentist’s office with a desperate yen to post, but you’re not on-line? I recommend two desktop apps, Zempt and w.Bloggar, for just this situation.
Both talk to WordPress through its XML-RPC interface. Both do the job well and are free. Tags:markdown wordpressShareThis
I tweaked my WordPress by lightly altering Kubrick 1.2.6, a template built for WordPress 1.2. Porting this over to WordPress 1.5’s spiffy new code base was an unexpected treat. Wow. Sure, I had to substitute a couple tags and tweak the CSS, but that’s it. Everything just works.
OK, but how to add CSS tabs? This […]
My Metro commute swings past the VA medical center. Two old veterans boarded and started talking. As they talked, I marveled.
They easily looked 10 years older than 52 and 54. During Vietnam each had considered running to Canada. Each ended up in the service, one with the 101st Airborne Division, the other taking it safe […]
Did you notice? The new banner and colors?
I pulled Kubrick Template.psd into Photoshop, applied darker, warmer colors, and for the banner I cropped an image of red flowers taken during our first visit to Swanson’s Nursery two weekends back.
Funny how last October these modifications to the Kubrick template baffled me utterly. Layers? Masks? Multiply? OK, […]
Luna’s sewing herself a new jacket. She burst upstairs, happy as a bug, modeling the half-finished garment, its greenish trim sewn in here but not there. It was a Seventies pattern (she loves anything vintage). Larae had given her the brown fabric which I admired. I admired too the cut of the collar.
“Best of all,” […]
I’m trying to write a little every day. Using WordPress from Firefox makes this less hard. My tips:
Use Firefox’s bookmark keywords. I hate having to navigate to my WordPress “Write Post” page when I want to write. So I bookmarked the page. Then I gave it the keyword, “w.” Now when I want to post, […]
Man, I’m out of shape.
I shoveled dirt this weekend to make way for our soon-to-be streetside garden. I dug only an hour Saturday and three Sunday (yay for no rain Sunday!) before crying uncle. Best to grip the shovel both palms down; fling with your torso, not your bicep. Even better: having Luna come down […]
Luna and I are meeting her Uncle Dung for dinner at Flying Fish. It’s where we had one of our best restaurant meals, so I hope that tonight’s a repeat. During the month of March, Flying Fish is offering a USD25, 3-course prix-fixe dinner menu.
Uncle Dung is in town for a conference, but lives in […]
OK, five months really can’t have passed, but obviously they have.
To summarize the now:
In three months I’m going to be a daddy—-a daddy! For USD40 today, I scored a Britax Roundabout car seat off Craigslist from the nicest couple. I have new Nikon D70 DSLR, and have nearly tamed a RAW workflow for it.
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