Ok, as you may know, I’ve been really interested in my shed project this year. One thing that’s been on my mind (well, at least I’ve been thinking about it) is electricity, more specifically, how do I get electricity out to my shed. I do have a 220 outlet already routed outside from an old hot tub (cue SNL’s hot tub skit – classic), installed by the previous owner. But where’s the fun in that, for me that involves more digging, which isn’t exactly what I would call a good time.
Ok, my brother (supplier (for coffee, that is)(twitter user @todewitt)) stopped by work and dropped off, from a vending machine, a fake mustache (SaWeeeet!!!!). So, it’s friday at work and I decided that it would be a good day to sport it around the office. Here are a few pic’s of activities i participated in – but with the mustache!!!
Ok, so I’ve been known by my wife to take on projects that either A) run a little too long, B) go over budget, or Z) both. So, to stay true to this theme, our summer has been taken up by three house projects. First is to build a shed in the back yard 12′ x 16′ with a 4′ x 6′ approach, the second is to paint the house (which needs to be done and we both thoroughly agree on – because it’s faded salmon (or basically it’s a good band aid / Pepto-Bismol color)) and the third is to put on a front porch, all under a budget of $3400 ($800 for shed, $500 for paint & supplies, $1200 for front porch), doing all the labor ourselves (with the help of a few gullible friends (or friends that feel sorry for me, not sure which one), and a very very gracious / patient wife, who takes care of our son).
This last month has seemed to be themed “Whaaaatt, that made it through QA?!?!?!?!” And by QA I mean Quality Assurance. Currently at work, I’m writing up a bunch of verbal QA scripts, later to be ran through either by a QA tester and/or handled automatically through some scripts.
Ok, I’ve run into this problem a few times and keep forgetting what the solution is, so here’s a good reference post for myself and the rest of you wondering.
Let’s say you have in your WordPress install 5 or more categories, but to the general public, there’s only two categories you want to show (such as the case with http://www.midmarketinnovators.com/). In this blog there’s multipule categories, some of them for a public post / Q&A section and the other for the author blog posts and still, some more for the sidebar featured products section. Well, to the general public, they don’t need to see the Featured Products or the Q&A section in the general feed, but rather just the blog posts, from the various authors partisipating. So let’s say they post to the category ID’s 22 & 23, well in your link tag in the header place the following tag.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"
title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed"
href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>?cat=22,23" />
Which outputs in html as
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Mid Market Innovators RSS Feed" href="http://www.midmarketinnovators.com/feed/?cat=22,23" />
In the case of Mid Market Innovators, the feed was placed into a feedburner plugin, which redirects the http://www.midmarketinnovators.com/feed to the feedburner link. But, this should still work if you’re not using feedburner. If you run into any troubles, post a comment.
Hey everyone,
I’ve come across a problem when building out a template where we need to display one post one the home page, but it needs to be a single view (so that it displays comments on that post) but cannot impact the query that shows a list of blog posts below. So, here’s a solution:
Ok, for all of you that like to laugh, here’s a new scam (or an old one, repackaged). As many of you know, I’m all mac now, at home and at work. I also set up Google Alerts for my work and church (and a few other things too). Well, spammers (or a new breed) are now setting up plain sites that have business names in it, there’s no text, just a really long title, with all of the business names.
You know how your doing one thing, which leads to another, and then leads to another. Well, I was on facebook, modifying my settings at the same time as listening to one of my Pandora.com stations. During that time a song came on from A Perfect Circle that had a few punch-lines similar to that of a band by the name of Common Children, back in the
It’s funny, when I look back at the memories of Christmas growing up, those memories never seem to be invoked by some random thought, but instead triggered by one of my senses. It could be the smell of the Christmas tree, the sounds of Silent Night, the viewing of an old childhood gift I once received, the methodically sweet rhythm of prayers sung by my relatives. I can’t control them, they just appear.
