General
- CoffeeMy new favorite gallery plugin, Slideshow Gallery Plugin, of me and girlfriend at Cafe Vita.
- Writing a NovelThere are a lot of people writing a novel while I’m writing this very post. Some have outlines and character concepts. Some don’t. Some have expectations of writing 50,000 words this month, it is National Novel Writing Month after all. Another year of NaNoWriMo is upon us and with it 4 weeks finger-bleeding creativity. I for one am not participating due [...]
- UnlearningIn a conversation about unlearning the other day I realized how essential this capability was for the evolution of our society. Strikingly. Especially today. The main cause for my concern is how much information is constantly being shown to us and absorbed by us. The best strategy here is to setup boundaries and rules for ourselves, protecting us from the [...]
- 3 Cheers for Diction!Being that it’s (oct.16th) National Dictionary Day, also Noah Webster’s birthday, I think it’s important to show my appreciation of our every growing diction with a post of praise. I didn’t know it was National Dictionary Day until about an hour ago, but randomly enough I was in a bathroom at a coffee shop this morning and wall-papered everywhere around me [...]
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- Coffee
WordPress
- Slideshow Gallery Plugin – Exclude FixExcluding attachments with this plugin is a great new feature with 1.0.5. Sadly it doesn’t work right out of the bag and you’ll have to make some easy adjustments to the main slideshow_gallery.php Look for this: $a = 0; foreach ($attachments as $id => $attachment) { $a++; if (in_array($a, $exclude)) { unset($attachments[$id]); } } Exchange with this: foreach ($attachments as $id => $attachment) { [...]
- Slideshow Gallery Plugin – overlapped image fixI love this plugin. I really do: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slideshow-gallery/ But I hate how when I have multiple sizes of images for my slideshow the old image is peaking underneath the latest image. So I figured I should look into it and see if there was a quick fix and there was. To remove the old image once the rotation begins. Here’s how you [...]
- Line Breaking in Author DescriptionSo I was having the darndest time trying to make an authors description have paragraphs or “line breaks” on them. For some reason calling the description: $curauth->description Lumps everything into one big fat paragraph. After some research I found the solution, with the help from my old from wpautop. <?php echo wpautop( $curauth->description, $br = 1 ); ?> And that’s all there was to [...]
- Slideshow Gallery Plugin – Exclude Fix
Health
- Ode to the StretchMuscles and joints, tensions and stresses. A stretch is both splendid as a concept and as an action. It has taken my heart for many reasons. In brief, it deserves my first ode for making oneself more limber, adjustable to the ebbs and flows of everyday life and able to master daily chores in an elegance that turns the mundane [...]
- Ode to the Stretch
Language
- Learning CantoneseIt seems my passion for language learning still holds true. And although Cantonese was never on my list of languages to learn it seems stupid for me to not learn it while working with native Cantonese speakers. I am at an extremely basic level right now and currently have the conversation built up to: Zou San (pronounced Jhoe San) – Good [...]
- Learning Cantonese
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