The London Eye

April 28th, 2010

I was in London recently and visited the London Eye.  My wife and I wanted to go at night, but they didn’t have any after-dark times.  It closed early. We originally went on a Saturday, balked at the long line and went back first thing Sunday (10a) and got on straight-away. The views were good, [...]

The London Traveller’s Basic “Tube” Howto

April 26th, 2010

As an American from a small town without a subway, I was a little concerned I’d get lost in the comprehensive London Underground system. I was wrong. My only other subway experience is with the Metro in Washington, DC, which I still find confusing and lacking instruction and direction for a newbie. The London “Tube” [...]

Thoughts about visiting, and staying, in London

April 24th, 2010

As I write this, I’m in a hotel waiting out the bizarre fiasco that has befallen Europe with the Icelandic Volcano spewing ash.  One hilarious comment I read on a BBC news feed on Day One: an American woman was surprised the airlines didn’t have a backup plan for this ash-clogging-jet-engines issue.  She said “exit [...]

WordPress Howto: Making Posts Scheduled in the future show up

April 10th, 2010

This is a quirky little issue based on shoehorning WordPress into matching a “Calendar of Events” style page, but working within the WordPress system. Honestly, this system is fine, but it’s probably a little messier than it could be. A co-worker made the decision to go this route and had spent many days developing the [...]

WordPress Howto: Combine Categories into a RSS/Atom Feed

April 6th, 2010

This was really pretty easy but I was surprised that WordPress apparently does not have the functionality to combine posts from two or more categories into one feed. Say you have five categories: Fishing, Hunting, Vegan Diet Tips, Feather Boas and Cleaning Automatic Weapons. Say you want a feed that combines Hunting and Vegan Diet [...]

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