Zodomatica Bits of Tzaddi’s Life

Last week at Cossette Convergence I met Dan Sorce, a sound designer and member of the band FNDMNTL. He was kind enough to share some of their tunes with me, and all I can say is WOW. I’ve been needing some new stuff to work to, and this fits the bill. When I’m working I [...]

Posted: May 27th, 2008 under Art, Culture Consumed, Goofy, Fun & Cool.
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So I’ve been banging my head against the metaphorical wall for hours, trying to find a solution to a buggy WordPress admin panel. I am moving a site from a development server running WP2.3 to the production server on WP2.5.1.
The symptoms:

Trouble getting to any page in the admin at times, unable to login, display the [...]

Posted: May 26th, 2008 under WordPress Tips.
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I was just reading some interesting content on a rather large, well-known website. The content was interesting enough that I thought “maybe I’ll blog about this and link to it.”
Alas, I was annoyed by banner ads full of flashing, spinning things I wasn’t interested in.
“Hmm, I thought, maybe this is why I spend more time [...]

Posted: May 24th, 2008 under Marketing, Peeves, Web Tips.
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It’s been just over a year since I quit my full-time job and became self-employed. One of the big adjustments always mentioned in freelance/entrepreneurship circles is that you work crazy hours and the work day never ends. Now I’ve been keeping a pretty good life-work balance, making time for the gym and hikes and stuff, [...]

Posted: May 4th, 2008 under Art, Life.
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I was just working on a site that required a random header image. I’ve done random images with JavaScript before, but the script I’ve used writes out an image tag. This site was built using a CSS background-image for the header so I needed something a little different. I came up with the following after [...]

Posted: May 2nd, 2008 under Web Tips.
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