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So last night we had a horrendous hail storm. No roof damage, but both of our cars, which were in the driveway, look like Captain Caveman paid me a visit. Lessons learned: Finish cleaning garage Keep monitor plugged into battery backup with actual PC Hail hurts As you've noticed, this site is going through some [...]
Upon reflection and my thick-headed way I can't stop myself from tinkering, I decided to continue with wpremix. The support seems to be improving and they appear to be squashing bugs. I've added a few excellent plugins: Last.fm Sidebar Twitter Widget Pro Google Analytics for WordPress These are great plugins because they are simple and [...]
Continuing the theme of frustration for commercial software, the WordPress template, wpremix2 was supposed to work out of the box for what I wanted. However, I didn't read carefully enough through the support forums to realize the developer had more than he could handle. So it's full of bugs and I don't have time to [...]
While taking longer than I wanted, I finally settled on how the site will progress. I decided to move away from PostNuke/Zikula. I've had my hands in PN for many years doing everything from simple to complex sites. I liked where Zikula (the new generation of PN) was going, but it's just not there. Especially [...]
After a lot of soul-searching and trying to figure out what to do with certain stories, I decided that I would create a new blog specifically for Human Trafficking. Human Trafficking Watch is focused on human trafficking without all of the fat of this scatter-shot blog. The idea is that I want to do my [...]
A welding supply company near Dallas has had multiple explosions, causing gridlock on I-35. My first thought, naturally, is terrorism–knee jerk reaction really. However, gas tanks exploded where they are normally stored. I would think a terrorist would set off an explosion near a more populated place. There's just not enough information to go on [...]
This is the future of insurance: In 2009, Clarian will begin charging workers up to $30 every two weeks for insurance if they let health risks such as smoking or high cholesterol go unchecked. Clarian is not the only employer to use money as a motivator for employees to shape up. More employers are zeroing [...]
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