Following up to the site I found with a bunch of steam punk technology/art I found this site that sells steam punk electronics and jewelry. I was told I can’t buy it, but maybe someone else will have the coin for something this frigintastic.
I geeked out when I stumbled on this page and feel I must share it’s goodness. With USB drive prices so low I might mod out a USB stick like the one shown on this site.
At first I thought it had to be a joke, but they have some tier 1 actors and I’m actually looking forward to watching a Western for the first time since Wild Wild West. I hope it lives up to my expectations, unlike Wild Wild West.
I just deactivated and removed most of my plugins. After a lot of thought I narrowed all my plugins down to just 6.
- Akismet: Because I’m sick of spam comments.
- Audio Player: For my audio posts
- Genesis Featured Widget Amplified: To build my featured posts (I wrote this one)
- Google Analytics for WordPress: I might just add the code manual and drop it but it is so nice.
- Gravity Forms: To handle my contact form, but it does so much more
- WP DBManager: To handle backups and other DataBase needs
Everything else is coded into the theme, which is built on the Genesis Framework. That’s how I can avoid so many plugins.
I’m moving over to a new blog format, this is one step in my plans to post more. I can use a lot of new post options, such as this “Aside.” Being able to write short updates, drop in a video, or other such things should make blogging a more regular event for me.
Word Press Geekout
I have been blogging for ... well to be honest about 10 years. It was a long time ago that I started my first blog. I maintained it until my second child was born and then my updates got fewer and fewer until I stopped updating all together about 2 years ago when I first started youth pastoring. Several months later I felt the need to start blogging again, but I was so over the previous blog. It really wasn't who I was anymore. I started a blog on blogger and built up a small following. I was … [Read more...]
Feeling Generous?
I haven't done a geek post in a while and there is a law in which I will lose my geek card if I don't write about the latest Apple product. Now I am not an apple fanboi, but they do make some great products. More than that they have an incredible PR department. We want to love the look and style because they convince us we want to. Look back at the first iPod or iMac. By today's standards it looks clunky, but when it came out we believed it looked like a curvy sexy future. Each iteration of … [Read more...]
Some new digs for Christmas and Web-fu
Merry Christmas to me, I got a new theme. This blog theme is a modified version of "Meta-Morphosis" from Woo Themes. They make some wicked themes and most will cost you, but they are worth it. They also make a few for free. The great part is the free ones are very feature rich. In fact, there are several options with this theme that I'm not using just yet, but will be. You can see the finished product, but what did I have to work with? Well here is a screen shot from the theme demo over at … [Read more...]
Give Away
OK so I've been wanting to do a giveaway for a while, but I can't really think of anything. I put it out on twitter last night and got a couple of good suggestions, but I'm interested in more ideas so here's the deal, I have 20 invites for Google Wave. I am happy to give those away to people who comment about what I should give away. This giveaway is open until 20 people have won or December 20th (this Sunday) which ever comes second. If I have more than 20 people entered by Sunday then I will … [Read more...]
