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St. Paul’s Cathedral Awesomeness
Here’s one of the most famous pictures of London, at least in my memory. St. Paul’s Cathedral was really cool. I saw it with my wife on a trip to London. I’m not going to write a lot about it, you can hit Wikipedia (see link in first sentence) for that. But here are some [...]
The London Eye
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
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
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
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 [...]
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