How-To Show A Single Category On Your Front Page

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Sometimes life is just so very simple.

I was loooking over that link and came accross this tiny bit of code that will allow you to display a single category on your front page. So easy… so sweet =)

<?php
  if (is_home()) {
    query_posts(”cat=1″);
  }
?>


How-to password protect your Wordpress blog

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

A client requested that their entire site be password protected. I thought I could easily use .htaccess but found out that life with Wordpress is a bit more difficult.

Fortunately, the Wordpress developmnt community is robust and found this pluging along with this nice update to make it work with Wordpress 2.5+.

Yeah!


How-To create templates for individual posts using Wordpress

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

How-To create templates for individual posts using Wordpress

I simply adore stuff like this. While it took me 15 or 20 minutes to figure out what they were talking about, once I did it was both elegant and easy to replicate. Open Source Rocks!

The Problem

Wordpress allows you to easily create templates for “Pages” and entire categories. This is very handy and easy to implement.

Wordpress does not make it easy to create a template for a single post.

In my case, I needed the first post in a category to have a special link for the “previous-link” navigation. Additionally, the last post needed the same link for the “next-link” navigation. (Normally, the first post would
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40 Years Is Enough

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

The Fall Of Conservatism

“In order to seize the Presidency in 1968, Nixon had to live down his history of nasty politicking, and he ran that year as a uniter. But his Administration adopted an undercover strategy for building a Republican majority, working to create the impression that there were two Americas: the quiet, ordinary, patriotic, religious, law-abiding Many, and the noisy, élitist, amoral, disorderly, condescending Few.”

After 40 years, maybe we can try something new…


Chow

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

We had a great time at Chow’s this past Saturday night. Thank you Sam and Sheri for the wonderful hospitality and good times!

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Spellwoman-Gulisano Kobelin's

Lawrence's McKnight's


OLPC 2 - New Multi-Touch

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Yup, it will have two great multi-touch screens! And they are even working on haptic feedback. Yippeee! While still more than a year away, it is nice to see where they wish to go.

I have said this many time, OLPC is the future of computing. This will change the world.


Let’s Go And Have Some Fun

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Let’s go and have some fun
On the beach
Where there is a party
Everyone will be there
On the beach
Where there is a party

We’re gonna have a ball
Dancing and singing and whining and all
Holding hand together and laughing and all
Then we’ll dance, dance, dance, daaaance…

On The Beach - The Paragons - Rock Steady CD 2


OLPC 2 - A multi-touch beauty?

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

OLPC 2 First Look is pretty sweet.

As an owner of the iPhone I do not recommend using a touch-screen for typing. Our bodies need the tactile feedback. There is no argument that a touch screen keyboard is better from a tech perspective, I do not feel it is better from a physical one.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the whole “keyboard can expand to fit the size of your hands” concept. And certainly typing on a screen is better than not being able to type and being forced to use a pointer or mouse. But at the end of the day, we should not be forced to compromise. Let’s first lay out what we want
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Yeah for Equality!

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Equal Right To Marriage

What is right for one is right for all. Why can gay white men not see that? Why can “straight” white Hillary supporters not see that? We want equality. That is all. Nothing more. But certainly nothing less.

While I am overjoyed that the court did something Good™ in this one case, I am saddened that the Castro does not take a deeper look into their on racism and sexism…


YVOD’s 2-Year Plan

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Your Very Own Dragon (YVOD LLC) is a Limited Liability Corporation formed in 1998. We own the domains yvod.com and yvod.org. YVOD is expanding and we are all very excited about it! YVOD is in the process of receiving Apple Enterprise certification. We are also collaborating on a reservation/tour project in Belize. Below are a few things we are planning over the next two year.

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1) Receive Apple Enterprise Certification to become an authorized education solutions provider
2) YVOD Education will provide and support computing solutions for schools
3) Create and run Barefeet Belize
4) Expand Barefeet Belize into an international presence called YVOD Reservations
5) YVOD Education expands to provide computing solutions in countries with a YVOD Reservations pesence (Belize, Costa Rica, Ethiopia,
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