A slow day?

For those that haven’t noticed it yet, upstartblogger.com has taken yet another turn. Remember the old tagline of the site?  If you don’t, I’ll remind you: Successful blogging made simple. As it turns out, successful blogging just is…

This charming Blogger template is a little bit vintage, a little bit writer and a whole lot of personality! It uses neutral colors and inviting paper textures with an added vintage style ornament as accents to create a warm and sophisticated setting for your words of wisdom, adorable pictures or online diary.  Dear Audrey uses… (read more)

This month’s wallpaper comes out of a long-exposure shot I took sometime in the pre-dawn hours a couple months ago.  As I was staring at my computer screen  at more or less the same time, it seemed an appropriate start for a new wallpaper.  T…

So, I had a problem.  For a while I’ve noticed a whole bunch of code being tacked on to my functions.php file.  I’ve had no idea where it came from since I certainly didn’t write it, so I generally just removed it when I saw it.  Then I noticed this weird php error when I… (read more) You might also be interested in these: How to add customizable header images and customizable backgrounds to your WordPress theme Using the WordPress embed shortcode for YouTube, Vimeo, more How to upgrade your Museum Theme to the most current version after you’ve made changes to the files

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Remember that 10000in24 Twitter account from a while back?  There was the big reveal on Upstart Blogger about what a sham it was that he was going to “create” a Twitter account that acquired 10,000+ followers and then he’d “giv…

For a long time I’ve told people “I’m not really a coder.  I hate programming.”  It’s true that when I took Assembly Language and C++ in college, I barely scraped by and mostly hated every minute.  The only part I didn’t hate, in fact, was when I finally wrote something that worked, and this was […]

Lost World’s Fairs

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This month we’ve got a great texture pack full of rock textures for your grunge designs.  These were all taken from the same area of Big Cottonwood Mountain that we visited with last month’s texture pack.  This texture pack includes 23 high resolution images of various kinds of rocks.  If you like this texture pack, we’d love to  hear from you; let us know in the comments!  And if you like this pack, you’d probably also like our other rock texture pack and our Capitol Reef texture pack. All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike license. Click the license badge below for more information about usage. Arcane Palette textures by Arcane Palette Creative Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States […]

One of the things I heard at WordCamp Utah was that it’s not what you learn at WordCamp as much as the research and stuff you learn once you get home and start trying all this stuff out.  In that sense, I don’t think I actually left WordCamp at approximately 5:30 Saturday evening a few […]