Archive for March, 2011

Tick Bite 101

Remove the tick immediately. If it’s a biggie and won’t come off, try holding a flame to it. It will loosen its grip and you’ll be able to pull it off. Make sure that the head comes off. It’s not recommended to burn it off, but it’s a means to an end. If you get [...]

Taxes on Amazon.com

Eek! This does not sound good to me, particular because we’re Amazon Prime members: http://www.techcentral.my/news/story.aspx?file=/2011/3/21/it_news/20110321095553&sec=IT_News

Testing tag stripping in Visual mode

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/switch-off-tag-stripping-in-visual-mode Testing to see if this issue is resolved in WP3.1 Contact the Director Professor Matthew Brown Howard H. Baker Jr. Center 1640 Cumberland Avenue Knoxville, Tennessee Mailing Address Modern Political Archive Howard H. Baker Jr. Center 1640 Cumberland Avenue Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-3340

To USB or Not To USB? Part 2

iPad2 is completely sold out online and in stores. In New York, a woman sold her physical spot in line outside the Apple store for $900 (http://bit.ly/hWxKDv). She was first in line, but still… Wow. Other customers are waiting almost a month to receive theirs (http://bit.ly/e6yTYM). I still can’t find any firm information on whether [...]

Ever read the HTML5 full specification?

Have you ever tried reading the HTML5 full specification? I have. It sucks. Well, HTML5 doesn’t suck. But trying to get through that bulky, dry mess definitely sucks. Try this out. The “Web Developer’s Edition” of the HTML5 specification. I haven’t dug in to it yet, but apparently it leaves out all the information that [...]

Display WordPress RSS on an External Website

Lately I’ve been adding custom WordPress RSS feeds on external websites. For example, we have a main news website for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Different initiatives and programs on campus like to have a feed on their home page (or internal page) of news stories about their initiative or program (excluding all the other [...]

To USB or Not to USB?

If you took a look at the Apple start page today, you should notice they’re plugging the brand spankin’ new iPad 2. It’s got the camera that everyone knew it needed, but what about a USB port? According to them: Once you pick up iPad 2, it’ll be hard to put down. That’s the idea [...]