Where On Earth Did All Our Stuff GO!?

The past couple of years have been fairly busy around the Holiday Season as we thankfully try to keep up. Many of our creations are shipped to clients across the oceans. Prospective customers also ask if we ship to their country. The thought occurred to me one day that it would be good to have a visual representation of where our creations have journeyed across the planet over these many years. Here's how we did it.

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WordPress 3.1 Admin Menus — Fixed!

Admin Menus Fixed — THe HaCk

Not that they were necessarily broken... well, there is room for improvement, but I mean "fixed" in the sense of the word meaning not moving. I have long used a most excellent plugin designed to make WordPress Admin's lives easier by consolidating the backend Admin Menu that normally runs down a column on the left side of the

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Sometimes, Foresight Is 20/20

In keeping with the Time Machine thread from the previous post, the philosophical question for you today is:

If you could travel back in time 10 years and sit down with yourself for 5 minutes, what would you say?

I know what I'd say. I would remind myself of a conversation I had 14 years prior with a friend in his Los Angeles living room one afternoon during one of my Shuttle Mission assignments for NASA Headquarters,

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Taming The WordPress Time Machine: WP-Cron

While dealing with server slowdowns, I'm getting into a relatively little known function in WordPress: wp-cron and what it is doing behind the scenes. A cron is a subroutine that performs future tasks according to a schedule, so it's necessary to make sure it is running and running well. It's also good to lighten the load on your server to ensure the best experience for your visitors. There are

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Google Pac-Man 30th Anniversary Tribute

Now, this is cool. Today on the Google search page is a working Pac-Man game, sound and all. Has two players, too. Insert coin, player 2 shows up in Ms. Pac-Man. I understand there's 256 levels. Someone, probably many someones, invested a lot of hours coding this, so that it just plays in the browser without Flash. Productivity hit a serious speed bump—for this day at least.

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The Technology of Fire

Observations on all that humans have been able to accomplish with one of the most basic technologies. Even a Cave Man can... well, you get the idea.

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