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• How To Create Multiple Columns In Wordpress Pages & Posts
  Published: September 2, 2010
  Source: MakeUseOf.com
  If you blog using Wordpress as your blogging software, you will know that it offers a lot of flexibility in design.  You can run a blog, run a normal website, and even a create a  social networking site.  You can also run a newspaper or magazine site using Wordpress.There are specific elements that make a site more magazine-isque (if that’s a word).  Some of which have to do with the layout of the front page.  Another characteristic of a magazine that you can now implement on your Wordpre...
• How to make drop-down menus in Google Docs
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Google Tutor
  Spreadsheets are incredibly useful tools. From plain data collection and processing to organizing trips with friends or family. Sometimes, you may be using a set of variables over and over in a spreadsheet, or you want to give others an option of a set of options. For example, if you are organizing a potluck party and want people to input what type of food they are bringing (main dish, side dish, salad, desert, soup, bread, etc), you can limit what someone can input with a dropdown menu. It’s...
• Kady O’Malley on journalism, politics and digital media
  Published: August 30, 2010
  Source: Mark Blevis
  CBC political journalist/parliamentary blogger Kady O’Malley (or author0b70f as she’s identified on CBC.ca) has changed the way federal politics is reported. Exploiting the features of social media technologies including Twitter, Cover It Live and her blog, Kady (with her Blackberry and nimble thumbs) has struck a balance in a way that informs and engages readers — professional with a dash of human. Even over the summer she regularly attracts anywhere between 12 and 90 comments per post....
• Yoast: Quick Tip: Simple WordPress debugging
  Published: August 17, 2010
  Source: Yoast - Tweaking Websites & The WordPress Podcast
  After reading this post about the "WordPress white screen of death" I wanted to quickly share with you a quick hack I do in almost all WordPress installs I manage, that allows me to quickly switch on debug mode when needed.In the file wp-config.php, usually found in your WordPress root, do the following:if ( isset($_GET['debug']) $_GET['debug'] == 'debug') define('WP_DEBUG', true);Now I can open any page, and if something goes wrong there, like a white screen of death, I add ?debug=debug to i...
• DIY Lego iPad Stand
  Published: August 12, 2010
  Source: There, I Fixed It - Redneck Repairs
  Submitted by: CharlosD
• Web content strategy. Few quibbles, but beautiful visual. @richardjingram thx @halvorson
  Published: August 11, 2010
  Source: The Internet is Just a Fad
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• The World of Facebook
  Published: August 11, 2010
  Source: Social Media Graphics
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• INSIGHT: Let’s be honest. “Sent from my…
  Published: August 11, 2010
  Source: Signal vs. Noise
  Let’s be honest. “Sent from my iPhone” really means “I’m not going to bother to proofread and correct this because it would take me an extra 30 seconds.”
• 5 Of The Best Free WordPress Portfolio Themes
  Published: July 29, 2010
  Source: MakeUseOf.com
  WordPress is a powerful content management system, and its popularity as a portfolio solution is enticing to many. There are a lot of themes out there that claim to do the job, but if you’re as picky as me you’ll find some pretty annoying flaws in many of them. In my search for the best of the bunch, I installed about 30 offerings (out of the hundreds I looked at) and after trying them out and changing my mind a couple of times I finally settled down with a theme. This took me months, so I�...
• My Responses to the 2006 Long Form Census
  Published: July 24, 2010
  Source: datalibre.ca
  Here are my responses to the 2006 Long Form.  Here is a link to the 2006 short form and here is some General information about the 2006 census. I will post the questions in a subsequent post.  I still for the life of me do not understand what the fuss is about, there is nothing nefarious in this questionnaire? Also, here is the Statistics Act of Canada.  Item 31 is the item in the Act that seems to be causing an uproar, yet, there are no records of these sanctions being imposed. Note: The con...
• More Answers to Your Questions, Gen X
  Published: July 14, 2010
  Source: Tammy Erickson
  Recently, Harvard Business Review, in collaboration with Right Management, sponsored a webinar during which I spoke about the characteristics that I believe will make the members of Generation X strong leaders for the decade ahead. We didn't have time to get to all the questions that came in, so let's begin a discussion of some of them here. I hope you'll share your own views. Characteristics of Gen X Outside the U.S. You asked: Are the characteristics of the generation consistent, or do they v...
• Moderator Visits Trinity
  Published: June 25, 2010
  Source: Trinity Presbyterian Church
  Last Sunday, we welcomed Rev. Dr. Herb Gale, moderator of the 136th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.  Herb was in Winnipeg representing the Church at the Truth and Reconciliation event at the Forks and asked if he might come and preach at Trinity.  We were thrilled to have him.  He is an excellent preacher and even preached on the theme we had originally planned out – Jesus Walking on Water.  He compared two different tellings of the story, one from mark, and one from...
• Looking for Free Stock Photos? Try Veezzle
  Published: June 25, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  If you’re looking for free stock imagery (perhaps to use in a blog post or in some marketing material), you might like to check out Veezzle. It’s a free search engine that trawls through the myriad free microstock sites looking for images. Simply head over to the Veezzle site and enter your search term into the box; Veezzle will return a page of thumbnails of images related to that term. Here’s the results for a search for “carrot,” for example: Click on a thumbnail to get a more d...
• Exponential Growth
  Published: June 24, 2010
  Source: Aphoenix.ca
  According to the CBC G8/G20 costs have grown exponentially. I can only infer that if the first 3 days cost $1,000,000,000, then the next 3 days will cost $1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (the cost squared, typically the smallest of what is considered exponential … Continue reading →
• She doesn’t know about mentos
  Published: June 21, 2010
  Source: Levite Chronicles
  I sat at a table in a restaurant with my cousin once removed. It was an informal restaurant and an informal group of extended family. As is usual for me, I was fidgeting after we ate. I had a Lifesavers mint. I had a cup with some pop. And so, of course I broke the mint into pieces, awkwardly, and dropped a piece into the pop. It fizzed. A little. I looked around the table and saw a bottle of Diet Coke. I had more pieces of Lifesaver. I poured the Diet Coke into the cup and dropped a piece of...
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