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Archive for December, 2009

It’s A Miracle! Rush Limbaugh Back From The Dead in 15 Minutes.

According to Radaronline.com, Wikipedia pronounced Rush Limbaugh dead shortly after the news of his hospitalization broke the wire. The updated Wikipedia article on Rush read, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III…died December 30, 2099… The modified post was corrected 15 minutes later at which time Wikipedia raised him from the dead. Nice of Wikipedia.

31 December 2009 at 16:00 - Comments

Tiger Dropped by AT&T | Outside Their Coverage Area?

Tiger Woods was dropped by AT&T who drops virtually everyone at one time or another. AT&T made the announcement on Thursday according to Yahoo Finance, saying they did not approve of his recent messages and that he had strayed outside their well known “Blue Map.” coverage area without authorization. Woods, who has experienced recent issues [...]

31 December 2009 at 15:48 - Comments

Unpredictable Google

I have several blogger sites. One is as plain vanilla as it gets. Standard theme and short posts. I use it as a reference blog, I point it to other sites to “get Google’s attention” and get those sites crawled. Funny thing is, Google is waiting hours, days to index my WordPress blogs now. It’s [...]

31 December 2009 at 07:49 - Comments

WordPress XML Sitemaps and The DateTime Stamp

I live in the Los Angeles timezone, PST. I set my blogs to PST in the WordPress control panel. Enter Google XML Sitemaps Generator plugin. The generator uses GMT to stamp the sitemap revision time. Not so on the generator at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/index.php. That’s available as an option but the default is, “use server response.” I [...]

31 December 2009 at 06:32 - Comments

Secret To Getting Google’s Mojo Back

It’s rather simple, the steps I took. I kept posting, just like before- a paragraph about my other interest, photography. A photograph and a few more words… I kept posting, just like before- a paragraph about my other interest, technology. A screenshot and a few more words… I kept posting, just like before- an article, [...]

30 December 2009 at 20:39 - Comments

iPhoto Is Not Fond of Moving Files Around

iPhoto, by design captures everything into a big encapsulated holding tank of its own. You’re not supposed to go in there, but let iPhoto manage and update all the pictures on its own, while you politely stand on the outside, asking for your own pictures, only via the interface. This is great if you never [...]

29 December 2009 at 12:54 - Comments

Bethany, Brandon and Tyler

This could be one of my best recent pictures of the siblings together. Taken at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton CA 2009

29 December 2009 at 12:36 - Comments

Wedding Rehearsal Day

Taken in June, 2009 from Bethany’s rehearsal photography. This was the wedding of the summer for our family, of course! Bethany was (and still is) beautiful and gracious throughout the wedding preparation and ever since too. How lucky we are to know her!

29 December 2009 at 12:32 - Comments

I Felt Like A National Geographic Photographer

Not exactly water buffalo, but these cows grazing in a canal connecting a minor lake to Lake Kissimmee in Florida were a new sight for this photographer. I caught all the wildlife I could on a boat ride with my brother who lives on the lake. The cows seem completely oblivious to all the boat [...]

28 December 2009 at 23:32 - Comments

Ode To Forgetfulness

Did I forget something? Did you? Have you ever felt like this song applies to you? C’mon, admit it!

28 December 2009 at 21:12 - Comments