Step 6 (Part 2) – A List Of Useful WordPress Plugins For Your First Website
This is the second part of the sixth post in a series of posts designed to help you set up your own website. Continuing on from the previous post, where we discussed both the Contact Form 7 and the Akismet plugins, below is a list of useful plugins that you may or may not want to try out on your own website. It is very difficult to screw things up completely when you try new plugins. Make sure you... [Read more]
The Inmate Fighting/Mating Dance
As a correctional officer, we’re expected to handle serious situations like fights (or potential fights) on a regular basis. Fights are serious business. They can quickly get out of control, especially if there’s a racial element involved. That said, some fights can also be kind of amusing. Sometimes this is because inmates can confuse primate behavior with regular, sane human behavior.... [Read more]
Moby Does Not Like Sarah Palin
For those of you who are familiar with either one of these individuals, this should really come as no surprise to you, but for some reason Moby does not like Sarah Palin’s stance on eating meat. Moby came forward today and stated as much on his Facebook page: ok, so sarah palin is releasing a book. and it’s filled with some insightful, thoughtful gems, like: ‘here’s my philosophy... [Read more]
Steak Is Wonderful
On Thursday, it is entirely possible that I will be eating massive quantities of steak. I love steak. All kinds of steak. As long as the steak is cooked medium-rare, I am usually pleased with the steak. I have been especially happy with steaks from Texas Roadhouse, Omaha Prime and Outback. I have not been happy with steak from Caniglia’s Venice Inn Italian Steak House, but that may have... [Read more]
Step 6 – Locating, Loading And Activating Useful WordPress Plugins For Your First Website
This is the sixth step in a series of posts – a guide that I’m writing that will help walk you through setting up your own website, on your own domain name, using WordPress as a content management system. Now that you have your website up and running, it’s time to explore the wealth of plugins that are available for WordPress. Plugins are part of what makes WordPress such a great... [Read more]
Fun With Facebook
Once I became married, my wife’s family became my own. I am sure that they wish this was otherwise. I’m almost as sure that elements of my wife’s family been planning my death for quite some time. It could have something to do with the comments I leave in their conversations, or it might not. Either way, baby knife fighting is something that just happens. You get 3 or 4 babies... [Read more]
Another Omaha Home Builder Out Of Business
According to a news story on WOWT here in Omaha, high-end home builder, Lifestyle Homes, is out of business. Now, Lifestyle Homes owner, Don Fuller, isn’t declaring bankruptcy and liquidating assets to pay off creditors – instead he’s just shutting his doors and stopping work until someone wanders into town and buys a home from him. From the story: Brian Waugh says the garage floor... [Read more]
