The motivation for this is if you want to move some WordPress single sites to subdomains in a WordPress multisite installation. Disclaimer: As of Oct 24, I have not implemented this on a live site. This post serves as my on-going documentation of the process which I’ll update as necessary. However, my research and testing [...]
Smokey Mountain Cooker
We have big plans. Today I ordered this smoker/cooker/grill through Amazon. And I linked to it through FED‘s awesome and intelligent Paleo food and lifestyle blog, so hopefully Amazon will give him some affiliate credit for that. Why we chose this “smoker” was because it seems to be well engineered, will fit easily on the [...]
Red Footed Cannibal Fly
This is identified on bugguide.net as a Red-footed Cannibalfly (Promachus rufipes), part of a larger family called “Robber Flies”. This one is about 1.5 inches long! I love this quote from Wiki: Needless to say, I’m glad it decided not to attack us. They are very strong and nimble flyers, and fortunately this one stayed [...]
Epson: Planned Obsolesence of Printers?
In our office, printers might truly be a thing of the past and I may never see Epson ink cartridges again. However the true purpose of this short post is to blow the whistle on Epson Printer’s planned obsolescence, compounded by poor customer service. I’m not angry, merely disappointed in the current state of the [...]
Mars Science Lab “Curiosity” Landing
NASA’s Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft, will land near the Martian equator at approximately 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5, (1:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6). This is one of the most highly engineered smart machines that humans have ever made. The landing will have to proceed flawlessly through several [...]
Replacing Motor Mounts On a VW Passat
We have a 2002 VW Passat Wagon with a V6 motor and 116,000 miles. It is affectionately known as “Vicki” and we still consider it new. It runs like a top and drives smooth as butter. However, we started noticing a clunking noise coming from somewhere in the motor or transmission area when we came [...]
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Windows PC Security Suite
There is no need to purchase and mess with 3rd party software to protect your computer from viruses, spammers and hackers. Instead, just use this set of built-in system security tools from Microsoft that work very well together. Simple, Integrated, Effective and Free! I have been using my development workstation with this configuration for months [...]
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Enabling GZIP File Compression
Here is what I did to enable gzip file compression for every WordPress site on our Bluehost account. I tried many techniques to enable gzip, but this is the only one that worked in my environment. You do not have to change your .htaccess files(s) or insert code into your header.php file for each site, [...]
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Choosing a Theme
I’ve decided to keep it simple and work with WooThemes – Canvas “out of the box”. This will let me concentrate on producing quality content and save the tweaking for later. I know already that down the road, some of my favorite features will be: And the WooThemes company has: You get all that (including [...]
SpeedTest & PingTest
Here are my results on Feb 25, 2012 for the Atlanta Comcast ISP. Not so bad.. close to what they say I should get. But it still seems expensive! And it looks like a I have a clean connection:
