Blog A New WordPress MeetUp I work in WordPress [http://www.wordpress.org] a lot during the course of my day. I have been wanting to attend one of those “MeetUps [http://www.meetup.com/]” that are in the area, and they had one for WordPress. Seemed like a natural thing to check out. I
Blog How Much Do I Charge Clients for a Website? You want to be a website builder person. But you don’t know how much to charge people. Let’s break it down a bit. You have to work backwards to find the project price point.
Blog Saint Raphael's Annual Bazaar I have to admit, I feel like it’s Christmas for adults. The Saint Raphael’s Annual Parish Bazaar [http://straphaelelementaryschool.net/] starts tonight (thru Sunday). And that means I get to eat funnel cake and hot sausages and play bingo. My kids will be spending their whole evenings in
Blog "Solar Roadways" Filmmaker Coming to Pittsburgh, PA Mark Dixon, filmmaker, is coming to Pittsburgh this July 24th to speak at Green Drinks about his latest feature project, Solar Roadways [http://www.solarroadwaysfilm.com/]. I think the Solar Roadways project [http://www.solarroadways.com/intro.shtml] is amazingly innovative. I have no credentials to support whether or not
Blog The Monty Hall Problem I doubt I will ever be on a game show or even have an opportunity to try this during a Pittsburgh Pirates game, but if any of you ever do, here is a video explaining how to win at the Monty Hall Game. You are probably already familiar with the
Blog Launching the Fort Pitt Web Shop Running my own business, the Web Communications Group, has been a great learning experience and very rewarding. The time has come to make some changes, though, so in October and November of 2013, I began putting a lot of thought into how I wanted to proceed.
Blog Puzzle: Put the Congressional Districts Back Together Gerrymandering is the practice of redrawing congressional districts after a decadal census to favor one political party over the other.
Blog Chipotle Ad for an App is More Than Just an Ad for an App I watched this ad from Chipotle the other day and couldn’t get it out of my head. It is such a striking message to come from a mass-production food company, especially one owned by McDonald’s (they are not owned by McDonald’s).
Blog Well don't feel bad, baby ... The fact is that people are violent. Sometimes that violence unimaginably spills into the world of our children’s schools. That is horrible, and makes my eyes well up with sorrow.
Blog Physics of Guns Underwater I enjoyed watching this guy explain the physics of a rifle shot occurring underwater.
Blog The Signal and the Noise Nate Silver chopping it up with the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
Blog The Mansion "Pic-Nic", An Old Pittsburgh Mansion, and Mary Schenley Mary Schenley, of Pittsburgh’s Schenley Park and my very own Schenley High School fame, was married away at age 14 to a 47 year old sea captain!
Blog Looking forward to "Out of the Furnace" As a Western Pennsylvanian, I have to admit this trailer strikes a chord with me.
Blog 4th of July Was a Blast I had a really wonderful 4th of July holiday with my family. We were invited to a number of cookouts, had a picnic, went to Idlewild, and finally, to Keystone Lake State Park.
Blog Action Hooks Do What Now? I have been working in WordPress for awhile. Hey, I really like it. One of the great things about WordPress (and probably a major reason for it’s skyrocketing adoption rate) is how simple and useful it is for the complete newbie who just wants to post a blog.
Blog Micro Hydropower at Home I was recently excited about an idea to link up a tiny waterwheel to my downspouts. After a little online reading, I learned from a series of circa year-2008 posts that downspouts would not really produce a reasonable enough amount of power a turbine,
Blog I've Always Wanted to be In a Video Game. This Kid Will Rule A Videogame! Bryan Henderson logged into the free game Curiosity and broke a few cubes. Little did he know, he was about to break open more than a virtual square. What he chipped away at was the last of 25 billion (?) tiny cubes inside Curiosity.
Blog Spring in Pittsburgh I love the spring in Pittsburgh. The farmers markets open up, the flower shows are in full bloom (ha ha), and live, free music seems to be playing from every plaza and park throughout the city.
Blog This website saved my skin today Today I was moving a WordPress installation over to a new webhost. I updated the settings on the DNS before I snagged an export from a WordPress installation, then I initiated a password reset to the client...
Blog Google Products Are So Easy, Until They Aren't Like many folks, I have been using Google products for awhile. Sometimes it is so simple that, like any well-designed product, I do not even notice how complex the actions I am taking are.
