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So I’ve continued to tweak the sidebar.php file that controls the rightmost column on this blog. I still have a bug in my WordPress install where conditionals are not returning the correct, documented, expected results. However I’ve just kinda worked around that and when it fixes itself or I install the next WordPress update, I [...]

I’ve been doing some Googling on various WordPress and other Internet trends. I really should have done more with my blog and website, but I had a lot of issues to deal with in the last few years. Now things are stable in some ways, but since I’m unemployed not stable enough. I’ve spent the [...]

Finally updated to the current WordPress. I was at 2.1.12 or something. This doesn’t always go smoothly and plugins and my custom theme often require extra work. My sister is also going to have her own WordPress powered site. I tried Drupal and once I finally got it to work, I quickly decided I’d rather [...]

So I was encouraged to attend MobileCamp Vancouver 2, I even volunteered our organization’s projector for use. While I struggled to wake up and become fully functional I learned I was going to be speaking. Originally it was only for three minutes but I ended up speaking more on Building Opportunities with Business, our ICT [...]

One of the things I took away from Web Directions North that I could actually put into use, was Microformats. These are just a formalization of the encoding of common pieces of data such as addresses and events. Most people reading this blog have probably come across a vCard file, they are sometimes attached to [...]