You are working on some project and just decide to look at an older WordPress site that should be just sitting there humming along, and see this… Fatal error message on thoughtvectors.net Fat… | Continue reading
It’s felt like maybe as long as a week since I blogged something about SPLOTs… that’s a long span ;-) But in that time I have been doing some major banging on the tubes and pedals… | Continue reading
One of the most rewarding things I have gotten to do the last few years (and this may be a blog post lacking mention of SPLOTs, hah!) has been teaching co-teaching the Networked Narratives open cou… | Continue reading
Last March I was fortunate to have participated in the uniquely formatted PressEd Conference. Unique it was because there was no air travel, no hotels, no rows of chairs under fluorescent lighting,… | Continue reading
Sometimes in technology you just have to whack a wrench at something to make it work. Way back when I started at the Maricopa Community Colleges, there was a surly old guy named “Bill” … | Continue reading
The sound calendar flipping comes with it the rounds of The People That Still Blog writing their summaries of the flipped year and/or the hopes/promises of the year being flipped to. Without resort… | Continue reading
“Will”, someone I don’t know, spends his finite time on this planet emailing strangers asking the not so philosophical question, “Am I In the Right Place?” Hi Alan,Wil… | Continue reading
All of my web work from 1992-2006 at the Maricopa Community Colleges was wiped from the web after I left. It was big pile of stuff for sure but it was the first of several experiences which informe… | Continue reading
I sometimes tell people that when technology evangelists espouse that their tool saves you time, that it’s a red flag warning / code talk for “I am lying”. But here, I share my on… | Continue reading
Even before a tl;dr (as if I do them anyhow), I am about as far from a web accessibility expert as my dog. But I’ve taken a curious interest since summer 2018 when Twitter made a big deal of … | Continue reading
I thought myself rather clever to make a post about dealing with WordPress theme changes related to the parent theme that powers the TRU Writer SPLOT. But then it happened again. Yes, my work are … | Continue reading
Best days are when the Internet is not full of poop but provides a funny little surprise. I live for them. I’ll drop the spoiler first. This happened. I’ve had several times of searchin… | Continue reading
Okay, I have been grumpy about the new WordPress Gutenberg “editing experience” I did give it a try a month ago but am so comfortable in my writing flow, that I found it really getting… | Continue reading
Sometimes your own blogging can turn around and nip at ya. One of my favorite tags of posts has been moocmocking. Now I’m riding the train, gimme an “M”… That’s right,… | Continue reading
Things can go crazy for you when your parents go changing… especially when that’s a change in a WordPress parent theme. This might be important for you if you have used the TRU Writer S… | Continue reading
Yes, I know what SEO is, a term I don’t profess any useful knowledge (or interest) in. My simple approach has been- you want a lot of people to see your stuff? Write/publish a lot of it, shar… | Continue reading
I consider myself so fortunate to have had a few Doug Engelbart convergences in my career. That featured image at the top was made by me after he was a guest at a 2006 NMC Board Meeting. I took my … | Continue reading
This was a nice surprise to see early in my Twitter gazing this morning. So yes, check out pechaflickr.de (yikes just checked and its not working, hope it comes back) That’s a rather impressi… | Continue reading
Blogging about blogging is a repeated trope inside this blog and I’d bet commonly elsewhere. Why do it again? It seems appropriate for my last (and consistently late, but one of the things ab… | Continue reading
I tried really hard, really hard, to turn make cleaver use of Maslow’s Hammer as this post’s metaphoric title “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” And… | Continue reading
And it’s all worth it. Especially as Antonio Vantaggiato stay in touch through the interwebs. As he reminded me in September, it was a year since we started our plan to share his and students… | Continue reading
In my last post I mentioned making a child WordPress theme mainly to offer customization to parts of theme footer that is usually hard coded. Maybe it’s too much detail, but I thought it a sm… | Continue reading
There is a pattern to my blogging where I think I am sitting down to write a post, then referring back to an older one, and finding it has a reference or link into it that links to one of my wikisp… | Continue reading
Someone has to make the donuts dailies every day, and few do it better than Terry The Baker Greene (who does it with sauce). This is close to Terry’s method: Or as he 9x9x25-ed: If I were ask… | Continue reading
Friends and family from the US have been sending Happy Thanksgiving messages, which are appreciated, and thanked, also with a notice that since I now live in Canada, our Thanksgiving was a month a … | Continue reading
Kids grow up and become parents, or at least stand alone adults, so what happens when a WordPress child theme can absorb their parent? Is this metaphor slipping down a slipper slope? So here is the… | Continue reading
Coming soon, well now, to a SPLOT near you- the ability to preview content before you submit it. Try a beta version now at — or see this mini screen capture video: Because it was aimed at lon… | Continue reading
Pretend you don’t know me. To save you some manual effort you surely won’t mind giving me permission to not only add things to your calendar, but also, you are okay with me sharing your… | Continue reading
It just takes repetition for new habits to become ingrained ones. That seems logical, but heck, in 2018, logic is not what it used to be (let’s save this tangent for an offline rant). For thi… | Continue reading
If you host your web sites on Reclaim Hosting you are not only going with the best service going, you get things like one click installs via cpanel of a suite of tools you won’t find elsewher… | Continue reading
Mystery numbers. It was a Lost thing, not lost on data fueled advertising. It was back in March 2016 I started noticing first the presence, than the patterned appearance of what Instagram calls … | Continue reading
When working at home one can get lax with the shaving schedule… as it was I was scrubbly already when Cori asked me if I was participating in Movember. Why not? I found I already had an accou… | Continue reading
Nobody is anto-sharing, are they? Still it’s something I end up talking about alot. Recently, I got a chance to talk openly about it with friend and colleague Ken Bauer, as an episode of a po… | Continue reading
I’ve had a 14+ year loving relationship with flickr since joining in maybe March 2004. I’ve seen all of the prognostications of its death after its sale to Yahoo and absorption into Yah… | Continue reading
Thanks to Colin Madland I got to co-present out work on creating a system for WordPress hosted portfolios for over 500 new students at Trinity Western University. I was unable to attend in person, … | Continue reading
Yikes. Guess who is a week behind in 9x9x25 blogging. Good thing no one is keeping count. Right Terry? Mine was triggered by reading a 9x9x25 post by JR Dingwell, A different approach to the ‘video… | Continue reading
When someone loves you fully they often read you better than you think you know yourself. I’m blessed to have that in my life now. In a recent dinner conversation where I was sharing with Cor… | Continue reading
Pesky WordPress bugs, this is how we take care of them. It’s all about isolating the problem, some keyword searching, and a smattering of luck. This post just for my own reference. I’m … | Continue reading
A good jukebox can always stand a few more kinds of music put into the rotation, right? I’ve just made some updates to the SPLOTbox media collector in response to a request from Dave Quinn. I… | Continue reading
There’s little end in sight for fixing all the dead links I have to Content Previously Housed on Wikispaces since they went and pooped their own web bed. Another one today when Ken Bauer twee… | Continue reading
It was one thing to be in a discussion about Creative Commons license and then right after, get an email request to use one of my CC licensed flickr photos for a music group’s release, but la… | Continue reading
I’ll always take “Serendipity for 500”, Alex. There was a healthy, many pathed Twitter conversation yesterday started with a statement by Robin DeRosa I’ve posted more than … | Continue reading
Actually it’s just switches, like things to turn on and off. When I wrote the title, “switches” by itself sounded like things were changing. So imagine the gizmos. As it likely ha… | Continue reading
The calendar reminder notifies me that yesterday would have been my grandmother’s 113th birthday. If I could talk to her, I’d tease about that being a lucky number. She would laugh that… | Continue reading
I pretty much gave up on writing about and hoping that writing about catfishing might have some impact (yup just checked, more than 2 years since last post on it). Of course that hardly means that … | Continue reading
I’m a bit late to getting this blog ready for the next era. But there is no time like now to get started. First, and frankly forced by Google for reasons I am not clear, this site is no longe… | Continue reading
And readers think I may go on and on about my old technologies. This guy did a big demo 50 years ago that makes all other demos, including mine, look tiny. If you do not know about the Mother of Al… | Continue reading
I’d like to think it’s rather clear if anyone glances at this blog that despite it’s title, it does not sell dog products, and definitely is not in the genre of home improvement t… | Continue reading