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• Elbee Elgee Version 1.3.8 Now Live On WordPress.org
  published on Oct 1st, 2012 in Elbee Elgee

  I’ve released Elbee Elgee version 1.3.8. This fixes a couple of issues involving emphasis elements and AJAX functionality in BuddyPress after BP updated to version 1.6. It should be live in the theme repository, so go ahead and download away.

• Bill Cosby: “Buck Buck And Fat Albert”
  published on Aug 30th, 2012 in Humor, Videos

  For some reason, this routine popped into my head today, so I scooted to YouTube and pulled it up. It’s still as funny as the first time I heard it.

• Philly Geek Awards 2012 On Vimeo
  published on Aug 29th, 2012 in Outright Geekage, Videos

  I attended the Philly Geek Awards two weeks ago and had a great time. (If you don’t blink, you can see me in the background sporting my kilt at a couple of moments in the video above.) I was there representing WordCamp Philly for Local Event of the Year (we didn’t win, alas). If you [...]

• Neo Hides from Lumbergh
  published on Jul 23rd, 2012 in Humor, Movies

  Pretty much perfect.

• Theme Hook Alliance First Pass (1.0-draft)
  published on Jul 2nd, 2012 in WordPress

  After I published my previous post detailing the proposed Theme Hook Alliance, I decided to put virtual pen to virtual paper and started the themehookalliance project over on github. A couple of train rides later, I feel like I’m ready for folks to start commenting on it. So please, if this effort interests you in [...]

• Mister Rogers Remixed: “Garden of Your Mind”
  published on in Music, Videos

  I miss Mr. Rogers.

• Twitter Ain’t Therapy*
  published on Jun 29th, 2012 in Blogging

  *Or at least it shouldn’t be used as such Due to this straightforward way of thinking, ENTJs tend to have the greatest difficulty of all the types in applying subjective considerations and emotional values into the decision-making process. -From the Wikipedia article on ENTJs I’ll be up front: I’m an ENTJ. Anyone who has ever [...]

• WordPress Theme Hook Alliance
  published on in WordPress

  Konstantin Kovshenin posted an interesting piece decrying WordPress theme frameworks1 and the extra amounts of work that they (can) require to get working Just The Right Way. Essentially, his complaint comes down to having to re-learn a system of hooks and filters in order to be cognizant of, if not competent with each of the [...]

• Pöpcørn Shreemp
  published on Jun 25th, 2012 in Videos

  Heh.

• Slo-Mo + Slinky + Science = Sloinkyence
  published on Jun 20th, 2012 in Science, Videos

  If you’ve never seen concrete proof before that the bottom of an extended Slinky will not drop one single millimeter before the rest of it catches up, well, you have now.