Does accepting a sponsor’s money mean you condone or support them?

I’ll admit I was pretty bemused that the BC Liberal Party was a sponsor of WordCamp Whistler last weekend. I’m not big supporter of the BC Liberals. They tend to be a wee to far to the right for my tastes, however while I was surprised they were a sponsor, I wasn’t upset about it. [...]

My WordCamp Whistler Talk: How to build a website with WordPress, for normal people

Going to do this post in segments…first my slides: How to use to build a website using WordPress: For normal people View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: wordpress wordcamp) This is the “magic” code that fixes the problem with having a pre-set “Home” button: <?phpwp_list_pages(‘exclude=2,10&title_li=&depth=1′); ?> What this does is block the pages [...]

Why we geeks make it so hard on ourselves

You’d think a group of people who know what Occam’s Razor is would actually follow it… [From xkcd - A Webcomic - I'm An Idiot]

Tweetdeck getting funding isn’t crazy, it’s the next move forward: stuff that works

Yeah I love TweetDeck , it’s open all the time and one of the first things I installed on my netbook. TweetDeck is the only way I’ve found I can get much out of Twitter at all. Iain is a very talented guy and eventhough I didn’t “get” TweetDeck at first, now I do. Om [...]

Getting ready for WordCamp Whistler: What are your favourite themes and plugins?

Next week is WordCamp Whistler and in addition to exercising my shoulder do I can take pictures, I’m also prepping to give a short talk on using WP to build “regular” websites. When Duane and Rebecca opened the speaker submission form, I zapped in with one of my favourite topics: using WP to build a [...]

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