October 2007

Don't Forget About your Taco

Tu quieres Taco Bell? Well, today’s your day “I ain’t Got my Taco”

Constalator Wanna learn about constellations? This flash app. is going to teach y’all about constellations. Before I even start I need to write out some guidelines for myself. Stars Learn to make a star sparkle Learn to make a star sparkle randomly Learn to control the randomness of a star sparkle (for multiple stars to [...]

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Just ordered a Chumby

So I checked my email just a few moments ago and low and behold there was the email I have been waiting for…my username and password to hop on over and order a Chumby! Widgets I have found for my temporary Virtual Chumby Moon Phases Flickr Photo Viewer Daily Horoscope Weather by the Weather Channel [...]

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Baseball Bandwagon

Now I’ve always been a true Massachusetts resident, when the Sox are doing good, I’m on the bandwagon, but still never watched the games. When they weren’t doing good, I’d shake my head in disappointment with the rest of the folks who actually knew what they were talking about. But this year has been different, [...]

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Wachusett Reservoir

Took a drive this weekend. Instead of goign to King Richards Faire again I decided to be hungover in bed. That’ll happen. Here’s some pictures from the weekend’s drive to Wachusett Reservoir. If you were cool enough to have a browser that could view frames there would be a lovely slideshow here waiting for you, [...]

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Encoding & and HTML Entities in PHP

Special characters like MS Word’s smart quotes can muck up a good custom piece to CMS work. First we’re going to go over using a regular expression to make sure that & and any character code starting with & can always be save, and displayed in a form or webpage.

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WordPress or Pixelpost – Photoblog time

Getting emotionally ready to get childlike.ninedays.org back up and running as a photoblog. It’s been forever and I’ve got a lot of people to re-connect with via photoblogging. I was about to unpack Pixelpost and get to going until I stopped and thought to myself about the pros and cons: Pro PixelPost is made special [...]

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Get Garnished

After my smoothie shoot I got to thinking about how the garnish in food photography is probably more important than the food (or beverage) itself. I am by no means a master chef, so I figure that any future ventures into food photography will likely involve beverages or deserts, so I’ve looked up some articles [...]

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Using WordPress as a CMS

I’ve now got some tutorials prepped and ready to be published and initially I had intended on putting them as part of www.ninedays.org which will soon be my portfolio, but blog.ninedays.org has really turned into a good home for my more personal than professional content. I really think my tutorials fall under that category. So [...]

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Come on Sox!!

From an old email my mom had in her inbox from 2004 (pre-victory might I add) Food for thought from the Boston Globe The Patriots are like the new boyfriend that you really like-he’s awesome but almost too good to be true, so you worry. The Bruins are like the guy that you just casually [...]

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