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Lessons Learned
As a parent I’ve had many situations where I’ve learned/taught lessons from/to my kids. Here are a few that I’ve found to be very valuable. All you can do is the best you can do. Different people have different skill levels at different skills as well as different levels of knowledge in different areas. That’s […]
NBA Standings Plugin For WordPress
A couple of years ago I released a plugin to show the standings of a Major League Baseball (MLB) division on one of my other blogs. In the time since then I’ve done a few one off versions of that plugin to help people use it in specific ways. Recently I was asked if I […]
Fix Smartphone Video Orientation
The other day I was trying to post some video I took on my iPhone to a WordPress blog. But when I previewed the post the video orientation was sideways. This is not just because I had the phone oriented vertically (which would give you a portrait oriented video as opposed to the usually desired […]
Recent Facebook Pet Peeves
Facebook has gotten totally out of hand for me lately. Though there is no right or wrong way for an individual to use social media there are annoyances. I know the pet peeves I’m about to list are hardly new but it seems that they have recently shown themselves in full force in my news […]
Cuomo Meets The Godfather
I read an article in The New York Times this morning about former New York Governor Mario Cuomo seeing the film The Godfather for the first time. It has been well documented that Cuomo had refused to see the film since it’s 1972 release because it paints Italians in a negative light. He said that […]