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more plugins

I have installed some plugins recommended by the Lockergnome himself Chris Pirillo.

Also needed for the WP Touch iPhone Theme are

The Admin Drop Down Menu combined with the latest Admin Management Xtended pluins make navigating the admin area of wordpress a joy instead of the click fest wordpress users have been forced to attend. We can now edit tags and categories from the miss named post or page “manage” page. Now that wordpress has the tags on a post or page basis, I need to go ALL the way back and tag ALL of the previous posts.

HOORAY!!!

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Filed under General, Personal : Comments (0) : Jun 14th, 2008

The Brothers

The Olympic Mountains are formed on the Olympic Peninsula in Western Washington by the Cascadia Subduction Zone. On a clear day they dominate the western view from Seattle. Some days, like this one you can just reach out and touch them. They are all that stand between the Pacific Ocean storms and the Pugetropolis.

The Brothers

This picture was taken from a park on the Port Washington Narrows off of Tracyton Beach Road in East Bremerton.

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Filed under Outdoors, Personal : Comments (0) : Jun 3rd, 2008

Computex 2008

I’ve volunteered to cover AMD’s presense at Computex 2008 on behalf of the fine people over at Lockergnome.com. I will be interviewing the AMD spokesperson(s) over the next few days. Whenever we both have time.

I’ll be taking the exam on June 4 from 10:30am to 3:00pm pdt down in Puyallup.

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Filed under News, Personal : Comments (0) : Jun 3rd, 2008

put yourself first

This is perhaps the best thing anyone can do to increase their sense of wellbeing and to lift the spirit. I has become clear to me in the last month or so that people that don’t do this are stressed beyond belief. Stress causes horrible weight gain, sickness, and overall dysfunction in the family unit.

Is it selfish to put one’s self first? Absolutely not.

Selfishness is keeping your entire self to yourself and not ever giving of your time to anyone. This occurs especially with people with children that do everything for their children and nothing for themselves. It’s only natural to want to do everything for the children, but to sacrifice yourself doesn’t do anyone any good. And eventually the family unit will suffer.

1) Get your spiritual house in order, whatever that may be.

2) Be one with your family, resolve any differences with the ones you love or leave them behind. This is perhaps the hardest choice many have to make. It doesn’t do any good to have stress in the family unit as it only brings everybody down.

3) Do what you love to make money. Don’t keep working at a job that stresses you out. As this will only make everyone around you stressed. It takes courage to move. If you can’t move into a job, then consider a business. Find something that’s fun that you can do and eventually the dollars will come.

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Filed under Personal : Comments (0) : Jun 2nd, 2008

new theme, tags, and broken urls

With the release of wordpress 2.5.x, I needed to update my theme. As most of you can see, it has been. It’s the Techmania Theme from Themelab designed by Styleshout. I’ve made some adjustments to it, mainly changing from Strict to Transitional to validate the code from the Coppermine plugin. I might get to modifying the plugin, but not today. I also made some changes to the fonts and font colors to suit my tastes. The Kontera ads seem to be performing well and Adsense is still in the stages of parsing my content for relative relevant ads. Everyone had to verify their Adsense accounts which I did today.

I also noticed that I have to tag the entries that weren’t tagged in the previous version of wp, and I have some broken links to pictures in some earlier posts.

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Filed under Blogs, Personal : Comments (0) : Jun 1st, 2008

Teh Pheasant…

I’ve been trying to get an up close and personal photo of the resident male pheasant.

The Pheasant

This is the best so far. He’s really skittish, I can hardly open the door without him running off.

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Filed under Outdoors, Personal : Comments (0) : May 5th, 2008

Peddling my ass around town…

A couple of weeks ago I started riding my bicycle daily for the first time in 17 years. At the advanced age of 48, I felt I needed to start working out again. My goal is to drop 30 pounds by the end of August. That’s two pounds a week. And with mom’s healthy cooking, that shouldn’t be too hard. Mom has dropped seven pounds in the last month. Hooray!!! The cardio workout of the bike has been rough to say the least. I will start some strength training in another week, as I need my cardio strengthened first so I can get the best effect of the strength training.

Of course the terrain around here is typical of Western Washington, up hill both ways, literally.

I am nearly at the point where I can keep riding without taking a breather on the hills. And there are hills everywhere. This particular neighborhood has concrete paving which is old and broken. This makes riding a bit of a challenge. Which is why I ride a mountain bike in the city. Twenty-one speeds of peddling goodness makes it easy to go up the hills. Well mostly. :)

I purchase this Peugot Hurricane Creek model in 1990 for $450 at the Alki Bike shop in Seattle. I needed some transportation at the time because I had just wrecked my 1976 280Z when a drunk driver pulled out in front of me. This was before the advent of suspension on mountain bikes. Suspension would be very nice around here to handle broken concrete.

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Filed under Personal : Comments (0) : May 5th, 2008

Roommates…

Roommates. If you’ve been out of your parents house for any length of time, it is inevitable that somewhere along the line, moving in with someone(s) may seem like a good idea. The after some period of time, weeks, months, or even years, the relationship breaks down and neither one can move out fast enough. This has been my situation many times.

I bring this up because last Saturday my business partners and I where discussing this subject. I made the comment that I would only have a roommate if she was a hot sexy female and we were sharing each other. Then Brent said, “Aren’t you rooming with your mom at the moment?” I remarked, “Yes, but we’ve already slept together.” It’s to bad I was in the back seat, I couldn’t see the looks on their faces. Then I said, “When I was a newborn ya pervs!!!”

The discussion quickly changed to Variable Annuities. :D

You don’t really know someone until you’ve lived with them.

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Filed under Personal : Comments (0) : May 5th, 2008

Pedestrians…

About a week ago, I started doing some bike riding to get some exercise. All is going well, the first couple of days were very rough. I am getting a little better everyday. The area around here is quite hilly, typical of Western Washington. I have to either start up the hill, or end up the hill, truly up hill both ways.

Going down the hill takes me to the waterfront of the Port Washington Narrows. At the bottom is Lion’s Field, a complex of softball fields with a path for the pedestrians. The path is paved about eight feet wide and snakes all around the park. At one end is the “pedestrians only” sign. And since I come from the other end, I don’t see it. :)

Yesterday I wasn’t even ON the STUPID path when someone said, of course, “this is for walking only”. I could have stopped and said something, but I kept on riding. About fifty feet later, the area between the fence and the water narrows so that riding through there, I must take the path. I am a very courteous rider and give the walkers plenty of room. But sometimes it just burns me up that people have to say something just to say something. Whether it’s justified or not.

Come on people, don’t you have anything better to do than flap your lips for no apparent reason?

That was the second time in a week. The first time I WAS ON the path, but there wasn’t anyone around, only one angry lady that yelled at me from about fifty feet away. Again I gave her plenty of room. Get a life people.

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Filed under Personal, Road Trippin' : Comments (0) : Apr 30th, 2008

Bar-b-que them ribs…

Yesterday we, mom and I, were invited over to Gary and Marie’s for some bar-b-qued ribs. What I didn’t know was this was a special occaision. Meagan, one of Gary and Marie’s nieces was showing off her new baby, Nora. Nora is named after her grandmother that had passed away many, many years ago. Meagan’s sister Stephanie was there too. Steph works for Symantec in Singapore. And she is VERY cute and unmarried. If I wasn’t already courting someone, I would have been all over that. :) Also there was Granny McKenzie and two of her daughters, Mary and Heather. Mary and Heather are a couple years older than I and are still very hot and very married.

So for a while it was Gary and I and eight girls. How horrible. :P

Mom had to explain to me about Steph and Meagan. You see their mother Nora passed away when Steph and Meagan were very young, less than three years old. So they were raised by their dad. A fine man that was in the Navy at the time. During the summer, Steph and Meagan would spend their time with Gary and Marie. Our families would eventually go camping together. Which means that the last time I saw Steph and Meagan would have been around thirty-three or thirty-four years ago. My how time flies. I was 13 or 14 and Steph, the oldest, would have been 5 or 6. Now we are all grown up and being all adult. Yea right.

All in all it was a great time. The ribs were great and the spread that Marie prepared was excellent. I have a feeling that Marie had once changed my diapers. That’s kinda creepy, but that’s life with the Prentice family.

We put the “fun” in dysfunction. :D

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Filed under Personal : Comments (0) : Apr 28th, 2008

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