WordPress Training at El Centro

Pretty exciting day today so far as WordPress is concerned. Not only did 3.2 launch today, and not only did I upgrade 5 blogs across 2 hosts, but I’m also training my friend Katie at El Centro on how to use it.

Isn’t Open Source awesome?

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Week 26: Offline

As a Computer Geek I am never offline. Never.

But there comes a time in even the most hardcore, always-online Computer Geek’s life when he has to go offline. For me that time is Week 26.

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AddThis WordPress Plugin & Google’s +1 Button

110610: AddThis released an update to their plugin today (instantly rendering this post obsolete), but it doesn’t seem to work 100%. I updated 1 blog, but am rolling it back.

I use the AddThis WordPress plugin quite extensively on almost all the WordPress blogs I work on. It gives readers a 1-click button to instantly share content on Facebook, Twitter and 300+ other services.

AddThis added Google’s +1 Button, a social-media type Like button ala Facebook to their WordPress plugin.  I wanted my AddThis toolbox to look like this:

The AddThis WordPress Plugin Result with the Google +1 Button added

The formatting required just a tiny bit of fiddling, for which I had to search, so here’s how I did it all in one post.

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Happy 8th Birthday Jarrod Swanepoel

Dear Jarrod – happy 8th birthday!

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Movie 18: Rio in 3D

This entry is part 18 of 18 in the series 2011 Movie Watchlist

Rio was the first movie in a while that I saw in 3D, and if you’re going to see only 1 movie in 3D for the rest of the year, I would vote for Rio.

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Salt Trail in Sabah’s Crocker Range Mountains

The Salt Trail in Sabah’s Crocker Range Mountains is a series of jungle path used by villagers to get to coastal towns where they traded fresh produce for salt.

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Movie 17: Hop

This entry is part 17 of 18 in the series 2011 Movie Watchlist

There have been a few animation & live action mixed films over the ages; the legendary Who Framed Roger Rabit and the popular Space Jam. In future, Hop won’t spring to mind in the same way.

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Movie 16: Sucker Punch

This entry is part 16 of 18 in the series 2011 Movie Watchlist

I enjoyed Sucker Punch, because if I was going to live a life in my head to escape my grim reality, it would certainly be something like this.

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South African Department of Home Affairs (dha.gov.za) offline

The South African Department of Home Affairs’ website appears to have been offline for most of the week.  Today, Saturday, it’s still not up and running.

Does anybody have any ideas?

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Movie 15: Unknown

This entry is part 15 of 18 in the series 2011 Movie Watchlist

With Liam Neeson’s last movie of a similar styling, Taken, in mind, I was quite keen on seeing this movie.  But you know what happens when you build your expectations too high…

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