Summer in Maine

Summer in Maine

Marie, Genevieve and Lily at Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Lily had a grand time using the iPad2 as her personal camera and photo editing device. I have no idea where Ella was when this picture was taken… or Michelle or Shawn. I didn’t take nearly as many...
Pet Diaries

Pet Diaries

This goes around the internet periodically, but never fails to make me giggle a bit (having owned not only dogs, but also having been responsible for cats). You do know that dogs have owners, but cats have staff, right? Excerpts from a Dog’s Diary……...
WooThemes: Customizing for a Network Install

WooThemes: Customizing for a Network Install

I recently migrated the vast majority of famvin.org sites in to a Network (multi-site) WordPress installation. There were, and continue to be, hitches along the way. And there were lessons learned that can be applied in other situations. For example, I use a child...
Little January Ice Storm

Little January Ice Storm

Auburn plays in the BCS National Championship Game tonight against the Oregon Ducks. Local plans were interrupted by an ice storm that fortunately doesn’t seem as bad as it could have been. Nevertheless, we woke up this morning to a world that seemed to drip...
Presents Are for Tasting

Presents Are for Tasting

It was Genevieve’s first Christmas. The part that was celebrated in Birmingham included opening gifts over at Uncle Dan and Auntie Shawn’s house. However, it seems that paper is meant to be ripped off of the gift and then tasted. Over and over again.

iBooks, Kindle, ePubs, oh my!

It seems that there is an iPad in my future. I own a Kindle. I’m looking into publishing some materials from some of our websites for these formats. So, here goes my research! Learn about the formats: Start with Wikipedia information: A Comparison of E-Book...

Twitter and such

I’m doing battle with TwitterTools — on one site I cannot get the blog posts to tweet. So, here I sit trying to get it to work on a different site to see what might be wrong. I’m not sure I need all this connectedness, but some folks are really into...