Some time ago, I was inspired by friend of the blog John Ford to try out tread desking. I’d long enjoyed switching between sitting and standing as the mood took me, so I figured it’d be interesting to throw walking into the mix. As it turned out, I was an immediate fan! Strolling at a… Continue reading Tread Desking: The Next Generation
Introducing: Automatic Updater for WordPress
Are you sick of having to wait several seconds for your WordPress site to update? Tired of your plugins not being updated as soon as an update is available? Well, do I have the solution for you! Automatic Updater for WordPress is a light-weight plugin that downloads and installs updates as soon as they become… Continue reading Introducing: Automatic Updater for WordPress
Proof of Global Warming
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you irrefutable evidence of global warming. See this map of the world, created prior to global warming, Greenland and Antarctica are huge! Now I present this more modern map, both Greenland and Antarctica have melted away to remnants of their former glory. For the future of Greenland and Antarctica,… Continue reading Proof of Global Warming
An Automattic Adventure
Today I officially begin my role as a TransCoder (This title is a terrible geeky pun. Blame Matt.) at Automattic. As a TransCoder, I’ll be doing new and exciting things with VideoPress, our video hosting service. For the last 4 years or so, I’ve been working at MySQL (which was swallowed by Sun, which in… Continue reading An Automattic Adventure
Avoiding HTC Locations
I recently updated my HTC Desire HD to Android 2.3, which is quite nice. Unfortunately, HTC has used this upgrade to force its Locations app into the system – if you select an address in Calendar, then Locations will open, even if you have another mapping application set to default. Happily, if this is something… Continue reading Avoiding HTC Locations