Two Celebrations of Life on the Same Day – Birthday & Memorial

Beach_sunrise

Today is an interesting day for me. For starters, it is my 43rd  birthday. But it is also a somber and reflective day as it was a memorial service and celebration of life for a neighbor of mine that passed away much too early in her life at 41. So my thoughts are mixed and […]

Using Twitter is like Fishing

twitter-fish-on

I’m an on and off fisherman, mainly fly fishing; I worked in a few fly fishing shops in my youth (gasp, I’m not THAT old, should I say “youth”?). Also, recently I installed Flick Fishing for the iPhone and have spent numerous hours on my commute trying to hook fish. Well, that go me thinking. […]

iPhone Question: “Unlocking” and “Jailbreaking” the same thing?

Apple today released a statement that said the following: CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software, which will likely result in the modified iPhone becoming permanently inoperable when a future Apple-supplied iPhone software update […]

Blog: WordPress version 2.3 scheduled to be released Sept 24, 2007

A fairly significant update to WordPress is slotted to be released today (09.24.07) with some interesting new features, including: Plugin Update Notification Tags! Improved Post and Draft Management Pending Review Advanced Visual Editor Buttons Pretty URLs Updated Default Blogroll Other “advanced user” stuff More details on the features/changes are below: Plugin Update Notification Not only […]

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Blog: New tweaks to my WordPress Theme now live!

Well it has been a long night but a few beers later, I think that I have some things that I like. CSS has never been my strong point, nor some of the newer HTML tags (I’m a bit too used to seeing “div” and “class” and “id” for now!) So, before I go to […]

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Fix-it: SBS 2003, 16 gig Exchange Limit, Event IDs 9175 and 445

Ran into a complicated emergency today. An office that I support suddenly could not connect any of their Outlook clients to their Exchange Server. It was very weird and I got sidetracked by the fact that my own ISP was having email issues with my domain (turned out they were completely unrelated). Before I get […]

iPhone: New “Pirate” app for TLAPD

Piggy Pirate

Just in time for “Talk Like a Pirate Day,” a new application was released for the iPhone that lets you snap a picture of a person/thing and let you “piratize” it. It’s at version 0.2 as of this writing…pretty fun! Just press the START button and your phone snaps a picture. Then drag the 3 […]

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Pirate Humor for Official “Talk like a Pirate Day”

What fun would it be without some Pirate Humor on official “Talk like a Pirate Day” (TLAPD). Some (if not most) of these are true groaners but what the heck. It will also be interesting to see how my WordPress plugin for TLAPD translates these jokes! On with some jokes (don’t make me walk the […]

Ahoy me hearty! Happy “Talk Like a Pirate” Day!

Well, today is official “talk like a pirate” day. So put that patch over your eye, grab your peg-leg, get the parrot and go bury your treasure! Speaking of treasures, if you click through my posts to the individual ones, you will see a piratized version of them (for some reason, my home page does […]

iPhone: TechDadBlog now optimized for iPhone with automatic theme!

For all of you new iPhone and iTouch users out there, this blog has been updated with a new theme (yes ANOTHER theme) that is specifically optimized for viewing on an iPhone or iTouch. Those people who are viewing through a computer browser will continue to see my black/red theme but readers who have one […]

WordPress: People can view your Plugin Folder unless you fix!

As I was working on the update to my blog theme, I found a security hole that I think has existed for a long time in WordPress. While not incredibly devastating, nor directly tied to “code” within WordPress, it is a hole that is very easy to fix. The concern is more with KNOWING the […]