Month: December 2012

  • Libertarian Drunk Braindumps

    At a bar. Considering a job with a libertarian organization. I claim no alignment and haven’t for a long time. However, in thinking about it, here are drunk scribbles I’ve written on the back of four napkins: – Voted for Michael Badnarik in 2004 – Smoke weed – Advocate of legalization – Gun rights +…

  • For Photographers, Instagram Square Photos are Worse than a TOS Update

    For Photographers, Instagram Square Photos are Worse than a TOS Update

    I’m a photographer and I use both my iPhone 4S and my Digital SLR to take photos. There’s a difference between taking pictures and taking photos, however, and the nuance is an important thing to understand. When you raise a camera and snap a photo, unless you’re paying attention to things like composition, lighting, depth…

  • Contest: 3 free copies of the WordPress Bible [UPDATE]

    Today marked the drop of WordPress 3.5 and I want to celebrate. Tomorrow, I’m going to give away three autographed copies of the WordPress Bible. You have to be on Twitter. I apologize to those who have chosen to abandon Twitter, or have chosen not to participate, but it is the defacto communications medium of…

  • Prohibition in El Paso

    Prohibition in El Paso

    Happy 21st Amendment Day (or the Repeal of Prohibition). 79 years ago today, Congress ratified the 21st amendment which repealed the 18th Amendment banning the manufacturing, sale or transport of alcohol in the United States. Here’s a fun story. In 1918, when the 18th Amendment was ratified, there was a healthy bar and saloon scene…

  • Working With HTML5 Forms

    Working With HTML5 Forms

    I’m going to start a series of tutorials over the next weeks and months about HTML5. A lot of web developers are not leveraging HTML5 for a variety of reasons. We have been so trained over the past decade to embrace XHTML 1.0 that we’ve avoided the new DOCTYPE as something new that needs to…

  • 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 3.5

    10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 3.5

    For 7 years, I’ve been publishing these articles every time a new version of WordPress comes out. Since version 2.0. It’s been a long run. It began as a need to fill people in about new features in WordPress (and there were a lot in 2.0. There wasn’t anybody doing these at the time, and…