Monthly Archives September 2007

Winning Simpsons Video-Extra’s were ignored

Awhile back I wrote a short post about Springfield, VT being picked for the premier showing of The Simpsons movie. The site of the premier had been decided upon by each candidate “Springfield” submitting their own version of a Simpsons type video. The town whose video was chosen as the winner would win the right [...] Read more »

Buy Me a Coffee? This I can deal with.

Finally! A monetizing solution I can deal with. The Buy Me a Beer plugin or a coffee in my case. No matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t bring myself to put ads on this blog, affiliate links were right out and even a simple donate button seemed wrong. But I figured I [...] Read more »

The JT Evening News 3rd Edition

(Just a logo I whipped up for this session-horrible ain’t it?)
Welcome to the 3rd edition of the JT Evening news (published whenever I feel like it–even if it’s early afternoon). All the the news fit for myself.
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The first item concerns my rather reluctance awareness of the obvious fact that I have neglected to keep up [...] Read more »

Trackbacks not getting to blog

In case anyone who has sent trackbacks to one of my posts and not received an acknowledgment from me (as I like to do) or have not seen your trackback on the respective post, please leave a common on the post you sent the trackback to saying so.
The Simple Trackback Validation plugin was doing too [...] Read more »

The Road to a Memory

The day was warm and sunny and the woods smelled of high summer. The old mountain road was overgrown with the efforts of the forest to reclaim it’s own but was easily passable nonetheless. My father was slightly ahead of me as we followed the old road to the right into a long straightway that [...] Read more »

Pet Me!

There’s nothing like being woken up at 3:00 AM by a 17 pound cat chewing on your elbow. No, he wasn’t hungry (wouldn’t get much anyway) he wanted to be petted and he must have thought this was a great way to make it happen. When he realized I was awake he started rubbing his [...] Read more »

WordPress 2.3 Privacy Issue? Your opinions please.

Earlier today I was banging around the various WordPress developer’s resources and the people involved with this new release and I was surprised to see a great deal of consternation over the new automatic WP core update and WP plugin update notification features, most notably the automatic plugin update notification feature.
Disclaimer: The following is [...] Read more »

Oh Those Bones!

Ooof! Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to get up in the morning even on a beautiful day such as this. How do I know this? It’s the bones! The bones tell all. When every bone in my skeleton is identifying itself by banging on the pain receptors in it’s general vicinity, I know just [...] Read more »