Over the past few days, I’ve seen several of the A-listers on Twitter tweeting directly to the airlines themselves about problems they were having with flights. Sounds like a neat use of Social Media? Not hardly, when you look at it closer… You see, in the first case, the A-lister in question turned up late for a flight, which happened to be overbooked. So this A-lister came up without a seat, along with something like 8 other people. Immediately the…
(This is part 2 of an on going series of posts on Social Media. If you didn’t see my first post, in which I define Social Media is, I emplore you to start there now. All the posts in this series will be tagged “Social Media 101” so you can find them easily.) Starting a new community is a fairly daunting task. In this post, I’ll point you to some initial steps that will help you along your way towards…
And unfortunately, in New England, that generally means that the snow has melted enough for all the dead stuff it was covering to start festering, with the smell of decomposition hanging in the air like a thick Gloucester fog. The annual migration of the cops has brought them back to their speed trap haunts, with thoughts of revenue enhancement on their minds, the precursor to their yearly feeding frenzy at the summer construction detail grounds. The cruelest days, those that…
Yesterday we updated the Splitcoaststampers.com site, the absolute best site on the net for Rubber Stamping and Card Making, with to the latest version of vBulletin, added a left column and did a whole bunch of system integration throughout the site. The project took approximately 4 months to complete, with tremendous work by Scott Bigelow, a great backend engineer and hardware guy, and Daven Nolta, the site manager, who kept us on track and on target for the community needs….
I’ve been working on a major site update this week and haven’t had time to blog. I should be back with my regular posts later today and tomorrow morning.
After my upgrade to 2.7.1 I found I had no visual editor. After reuploading files, etc. I finally found that I’ve got an issue with one of my plugins. Not sure which one, but obviously it’s one that interacts with the admin console. Steps to fix the problem if you have a tinymce editor in WordPress 2.7.1 that has stopped working. Refresh the page using ctl-shift-refresh (this is a “hard refresh” which will force everything to reload from the server,…
I’m deep into my February Funk…so I don’t have much to say right now. The news isn’t great and looks like it could easily get worse. Depending who you listen to, the cost of the government bailout is as low as 900 Billion Dollars (capitalized, because such a number deserves respect) or as high as 4.7 Trillion Dollars (figuring the cost of previous efforts, and the cost of t-bills to fund it). Never empty your weapon when a battle…
A couple of weeks ago, almost to the day that my truck had its “tire nearly falls off on the Mass Pike” issue, my wifes ’05 Chevrolet Impala started to overheat. It looked like a classic thermostat problem so I was going to do it myself, until I opened the hood and found they’d buried the inlet under half of the engine plumbing. No worries, I thought, since I had to go to Harbro to rent a car for commuting…
(Disclosure, I’ve done web work for Dan Lyons, aka “FakeSteveJobs” in the past couple years. I like him…but this post isn’t about that.) Mid-week, Apple announced to their employees that Steve Jobs was taking a leave of absence due to ongoing health issues. This comes on the heals of his non-appearance at MacWorld, which had spurred another eruption of rumors in blogjikstan that he’s gravely ill. However, amny ofof the old media tech hands dismissed this a case of Apple…
This changes everything. Right now a terabyte of storage space in an external drive is about 6″ x 4″ by 3″ – this will reduce it to the size of an SD card that you use in your camera. That means the vision of the netbook can be realized, that laptops can become smaller, thinner and lighter and that you’ve got data portability like you never even considered before. Think about being able to haul around your sd card and…