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Today’s Listen: Titus Jones’ “Hello Girl, Let’s Party ‘Til The End”

Titus Jones – Hello Girl, Let’s Party ‘Til The End by titusjones.

Upbeat. Yes, have some.

Posted by Doug on January 27th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Music

How “Jedi” Should Have Ended

Pretty spot-on, honestly.

Posted by Doug on January 25th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Humor, Movies

Today’s Must-Listen

“Duel of the Fates Remix” by The Noisy Freaks and Dead CΔT Bounce:

Wonderful.

Posted by Doug on January 23rd, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Music

Elbee Elgee Version 1.3.5 Released

For those of you with Elbee Elgee installed, you should be seeing an update to version 1.3.5 showing up in your “Dashboard -> Updates” shortly. This is a bugfix release intended to remove the div element in the header that is shaded to 50% opacity when users select “Display Text: no” in the Headers options.

Previously, the theme would incorrectly remove the header text but leave the 50% div in place, thus partially obscuring the left-hand portion of header images. This release fixes that.

If you’re the impatient type and want to grab it from the official repo page instead, that’s an option too.

Posted by Doug on January 19th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Elbee Elgee

“What If I DON’T Have Access To A Chain?”

Pure, unadulterated brilliance from John Oliver on The Daily Show.

Posted by Doug on January 13th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Humor, Politics

Reach Out And Touch Someone

Apparently my contact form has been non-functional for a while. I finally figured out that it was due to the old contact form plugin I was using not working when Akismet (ptui!) is disabled.

So I rebuilt it from scratch and now you can recommence your comments, complaints, etc. with all due haste. *grin*

Posted by Doug on January 13th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Site News

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