It all started as a hack. I use a really cool plugin authored by Ozh—his Admin Drop Down Menu. It puts a thin horizontal bar across the top of the Admin screens with drop-down menus, so you can turn off the wide column of standard menus that runs down the left side and… Read the Full Story...
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… Read the Full Story...
Keeping with the Time Travel theme, here's a really cool philosophical exercise that I have often posed to colleagues and friends over the years. It tells you a lot about yourself; especially, like any good broth, after you have let it simmer for a while:
Time (and obviously money) being no object, list the 10 people that you would most like to be able to spend a day… Read the Full Story...
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, Read the Full Story...
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… Read the Full Story...
It had to happen sooner or later and I'm now surprised that it hadn't already happened. In an effort to make our imagery and our glass work as accessible to as many fans as we can, Joy has developed a new glass jewelry line called… Read the Full Story...
After six months of getting pummeled by failures in trying to cast glass sinks to fit an existing counter top that was forbidden by the client to be modified—even by a little, my partner in art got a nice reward. Along the path of these varied projects that we do, comes knowledge that you don't know how it will be used. One day, though, it all comes… Read the Full Story...
An Artist-Engineer:
Blown Glass Sculptor, 3D Modeling, Film & Animation, Space & Astronomical Artist, Production Designer, Technical Illustrator, Writer, Constructor of Kinetic Sculptures Employing Exotic Materials— Predominantly for the Aerospace Industry.
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