NOTE: No parent theme files were harmed, modified, or otherwise abused in the making of this blog post. Sometimes I do learn things! I was able to customize the layout of my blog using a child theme, some CSS, and some additions to my child theme’s functions.php file. The Elemin theme from Themify is a [...]
About Jan Dembowski
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Time for a new WordPress theme
The last time I switched this site to another theme was March 2010, before that April 2008. This time I’ve switched to a commercial them called Elemin. This is a first for me as I’ve never purchased a theme before. But it was on sale for Black Friday and I had been eying it since [...]
(Was) Microsoft Touch Mouse
For years I’ve been using the Logitech MX Revolution mouse and it’s gotten long in the tooth. The pointer would stutter, the mouse buttons wouldn’t click, the click would release at the worst time, etc. I could read the signs and it was time for it to go. I was leaning towards getting the Performance [...]
Now validated with StartSSL
So while I was putzing around with my SSL sites and getting some grief with mod_gnutls, I realized that my life really would be much easier with a valid wildcard SSL cert. So naturally I went to StartSSL and went through the process for a Class 2 Validation. I had meant to do it for [...]
Getting carried away
Why all the righteousness over the lack of democracy in Egypt 9 months after revolution, when the US is struggling with it 224 years later? — Cynthia Boaz (@cynthiaboaz) November 24, 2011 This sort of statement is inflammatory and is just another false equivalency. Yes, UC Davis and other militarization of American Police is awful [...]
Another Olympus Trip 35 for me
Back in March 2011 I started taking photos with my newly acquired Olympus Trip 35 cameras. Since then I’ve taken hundreds of photos with them and even went to China with them. In China I gave one of them to my wife’s cousin and he takes excellent photos with it. I kept the Tripman one [...]
With the lemons!
ThinkGeek has something really good coming in December. Seriously, I’m thinking of getting this for the holiday season!
Google is my co-pilot
Google’s car navigation for Android phones is pretty good. The majority of my work is 9 to 5 weekdays but when I need to make (fully approved, vetted, it’s-not-my-fault-and-I-won’t-do-it-again) production changes I have to wait for after 5 PM. Depending on the potential impact, I have to wait until Saturday. This weekend the group I [...]
Tabs and spaces
Self? Remember this: You’ll need it later. At work I use bash, sed, [e]grep, cut, tr, and occasionally awk if I can’t get out what I need from the others. These aren’t used as scripts per se, just some tools I use to massage data. Need that formatted, irregular, multi-line text file broken up and [...]
OK then, I can use Google+ now
That was quick. I’m now able to turn on Google+ on my Google App domain. If your Google Apps then try logging into your “Manage this domain” link, select “Organization & Users”, then Services. If the option is available you will be able to scroll down, find it, and turn it on. It’s that simple. [...]
