Widgets have come to WordPress. OK, they aren’t the same as what the Mac or Confabulator has but none the less they are cool. What they are is something that Automattic developed. They allow you to develop small components for the sidebar which can be easily manipulated. These small components are what are called widgets. [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2006’
French Law breaks ground
There are many links floating around the blog world regarding a new French Law that would require broad interoperability for digital players. Here is one link which discusses it’s impact a little further. I personally am impressed by the courage that democratic leaders which are probably under similar financial pressures as our own have decided [...]
Treasurer and Auction
I’m almost done. Today I was able to process all the credit card slips for my youngest son’s school’s auction that happened a few weeks ago (thanks to Quickbooks Merchant Services!). I got all the receipts (tax, cc) printed and signed. I put them in envelopes with address labels and stamps and they are ready [...]
Book Review: Bitten & Smitten – Michelle Rowen
This is a new author for me, I think – though obviously an old topic. Michelle takes a more serious approach to the romance novel though not too serious. It’s humorous but not laugh out loud or even giggle to yourself kind of humorous. The romance was a little thin in the story too though [...]
Book Review: Windfall – Rachel Caine
This is book four in the Wizard Warden series by Rachel Caine. I think I may have missed one (book 3, I’m thinking) but I’ve read most of them. The concept behind the book is that some special people are born with the ability to manipulate different aspects of nature (fire, earth, weather). There is [...]
Job as Treasurer
Well, it’s been quite a couple of weeks. After a few months trying to work on a method through Costco’s Merchant Services (which use Nova) to accept credit cards for our upcoming auction, I found that they had difficulty with our status as a small non-profit. The IRS doesn’t require non-profits to file tax returns [...]
Geek time: updated the theme
Ok, it was just geek type updates. I thought it needed some clean up cause I had hacked it together by modeling it after a couple of different sources plus my own ideas so it got messy. In cleaning it up though, I managed to find out all sorts of sensitivities to CSS that the [...]
A study on the DCMA
Here is a post on the Cato Institute coming out with a studing on how the DCMA is bad for innovation and competition. So is our government about protecting people about protecting institutions? Obviously that is rhetorical in that the government has recently and maybe always been about protecting the interest of the large corporations [...]
A sermon
Today, I heard a sermon by our Pastor at Church. Our Pastor is not really a very effective sermon giver as he rambles and never gets to a coherent point. Today was no different. But today, I did get one bit from his sermon. I’m sure it wasn’t exactly what he intended but I’d still [...]
Some advice on a favorite topic
Here is a post by Marc Cuban suggesting that we will all have problems in the future because of digital content owners. It’s an interesting read from someone involved in that business though maybe on the fringes. My favorite bit is: My advice ? Any and all digital content that you purchase and OWN, with [...]
Super-hero is public domain, right?
Here is a bit from my hobby past over at Boing Boing regarding Marvel and DC trying to steal the word super-hero from the public domain. This just blows me away at the arrogance of companies and their lawyers. I grew up loving comic books, primarily from Marvel and DC, and super-heroes but this word [...]
MPAA/RIAA out to hurt us
Here is something crazy from Boing Boing on the MPAA/RIAA. Here is my favorite excerpt: In order to protect their ability to deploy this dangerous DRM, they want the Copyright Office to withhold from users permission to uninstall DRM software that actually does threaten critical infrastructure and endanger lives. These guys are selfish, insane and [...]
Auction issues
Ok, as the treasurer I get the fun to deposit money and enter credit cards and tally up receipts and generate reports. Sounds like fun stuff doesn’t it? Well, it got a lot funner when the credit card system decided to not work for us. I had been trying to use Costco’s Merchant Services (which [...]
Auction seems to be a success!
Last night, we held an auction to raise money for Mitchell’s school. We hoped that people would turn out: they did! We hoped that people would have fun so they could remember it fondly: I did and it seemed others did as well! We hoped that people would be generous and bid plenty of money [...]
Happy 5th Birthday Mitchell
Well, today is Mitchell’s 5th birthday. Kathy and I started the day by going to Mitchell’s school for his Birthday Circle. I got to take some video and Kathy took some pictures (hopefully they will be up on or photo blog soon!). After lunch, Mitchell went to gymnastics as usual but then got picked up [...]