Nov
29
Pole Dancing, or Cheesecake?
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How’s that for (link) bait?
In honor of something a little goofy that I said over at Cre8asite Forums about writing ideas, I’m offering an upgrade from pie. Here’s a 100% original, made-up-by-yours-truly-in-a-past-life recipe for a cheesecake that has been served in ritzy restaurants.
Where’s the pole, you ask? I’ll [...]
Nov
27
Plugging Plugins
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I am a plugin junkie. Here are a few that I like to install right after setting up WordPress.
Akismet
The quinessential WordPress comment spam stopper, Akismet is part of a WP base install. In addition to installing Akismet, go to Options > Discussion and decide how much control you want over comments.
By Matt Mullenweg.
Go [...]
Nov
25
Sweetness Endures Like Iron
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One of the coolest things I learned in school is that the iron in our blood comes from stardust scattered by supernovas. The pressure from something that massive is how stellar nucleosynthesis creates iron from lighter elements. When a massive star goes boom the dust scatters and drifts, and some of it, still [...]
Nov
21
A New Look
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I finally got my site out of tables and into WordPress.
I started with Bruce Gardner’s Blue Zinfandel Squared Enhanced theme, because I am learning WordPress and I like his detailed approach to CSS. I’ve found that working with other people’s code is a good way to learn, and both Blue Zinfandel Enhanced [...]

