Category: Everyday
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Found in my Drafts Folder: 200 Dollar Store
We all understand the basic concept of the dollar store’s marketing strategy; take knickknacks, non-expiring canned goods, the un-familiar afro-American Santa figurines, every product produced by the Lorimar Cosmetic Company, aluminum tins and sell them all under one roof for a dollar or less. There was, of course, immediate innovation and the 99-cent store was…
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How to Stop WordPress from Enclosing MP3s in Posts
Occasionally there may be a time when you really don’t want to publish all the MP3s of a post in your RSS feed. Unfortunately WordPress will not allow you to remove an MP3 it’s linked to. To be more accurate WordPress will always link to all available media files every time you press *Save.* This…
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iTunes’ Podcast Setting
Recently while encoding a CD I noticed that the new iTunes 4.9 now has a setting for Podcasts under the AAC(Advanced Audio Codec) codec. This of course is a little cheeky in that you can only play podcasts encoded with Apple’s AAC on iPods. I would imagine the quality of the recordings is superb, but…
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BBC “London rocked by terror attacks”
!(photo)http://photos23.flickr.com/24288134_fcaecc54f4.jpg(bus)!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/timbradshaw/24288134/ After the good news that London would hold the 2012 Olympics, this morning news came in that was not good. I’m not sure if it has anything to do with being a New Yorker, or that I have family and friends in London, or that after living through 9/11 here in NYC, or that…
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First Real Writing Gig
!(photo left)https://www.upthetree.com/wp-uploads/comart.gif(Communication Arts)!:http://www.commarts.com/CA/ Well all this weblog nonsense has finally paid off as I have gotten my first real writing gig with “Communication Arts.”:http://www.commarts.com/CA/ I will be co-writing the article with the Design Issues Editor “DK Holland,”:http://www.dkholland.com/ which is great as I really need some help from a professional. The article will be a 6…