So this past weekend I decided it was time to bring my blog into the new era of WordPress 3.x, and after some fiddling and diddling, I was able to coerce the auto-updater to work. (Hint : if you’re getting memory errors, use the plugin Memory Bump and remember to disable all your other plugins!) [...]
READ MORE »Google Recipes – But Can It Do Dishes Afterwards?
This may be old news to some people, but I just noticed today when I was doing a quick search for a fish dish that Google does dynamic search helpers for Recipes! And sure enough, along with addresses and shopping information, SkyNet has a microformat to make recipe data more digestible (sorry, I couldn’t resist). You can find [...]
READ MORE »Dropbox vs. SugarSync : Cloud File Services Compared
(note this article originally appeared in my work blog at NSR. I’ve made some small updates and wanted to move it here as well). Ever had one of those days where Murphy’s Law has put you in the circumstance where you need a file and don’t have it? Maybe you forgot to email it to [...]
READ MORE »7 ways my wife’s iPhone saved our marriage
It’s tough being in a relationship. It’s even tougher when you work separate shifts, and both of you are taking full loads of classes (at separate institutions). Such circumstances do not facilitate seeing eye-to-eye (or seeing each other at all) and such challenges can only be compounded by one of you being highly technical and [...]
READ MORE »UNLVino 2010
I had the pleasure of attending the Grand Tasting at UNLVino 2010 this year. This was the first time I attended such a phenomenal event, and it was quite overwhelming. Between the fact that I haven’t drank in 3 months and the fact that there were over 110 tables with an average of 10 wines [...]
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