Archive for the ‘blog’ Category

Untangling the Web III: Instant Gratification

Instant Messaging has been around almost as long as the internet itself. And before Instant Messaging, there were message boards and chat rooms. It can be an easy way to keep in touch with your real-world friends, a way to chat with the folks you meet online or an effective tool to communicate with the [...]

Untangling the Web II: Email for Everyone

In part one of this series, I discussed with you what RSS Feeds are, and how they can benefit you. Today, I’m going to discuss the mainstay of communication in the digital age; Email. In my opinion, email is the single most important technological advance in decades. It has changed the way we do business. [...]

Untangling the Web I: Feed your Head

See that neat orange icon up there? Recognize it? I’m sure most of you do. Even if you don’t know what it means, you’ve likely seen it at almost every site you go to - including this one. In fact, if you use certain web browsers (Firefox for example), you can even see it in [...]

Enjoy our product! Just don’t use it.

Wordpress has, for a long time, been my blogging software of choice. It may have its flaws, but they are outweighed by the fact that it’s the software I first learned to use and the one I’m most comfortable with.
Like many wordpress users, I was elated when version 2.3 came out with the addition of [...]

Features!

Well, crap. I mentioned in last Friday’s feature “As Seen On TV” that I had several regular features coming, and I do. But, thanks to being snowed in, having to get out, my photoshop program breaking for no reason and other things, I was unable to do so yesterday, and likely won’t get today’s out [...]

Hey, no-one’s perfect….

So, the theme, the one you’re looking at right now (unless you’re reading the RSS feed, natch), is not perfect. It’s the first theme that I made 100% from scratch. Design, images, php, I designed it all. Usually, I’ll take a nice basic base from an existing WP theme and then make my theme. But, [...]

Slow going….

Hey there, faithful reader. It’ll be a wee bit short on posts this week, but I’ll be making up for it next week with quite a few things that should keep you entertained during your boring day. See you in a few days.