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Pickin’ Apple and A-maze-ing Corn

  • 8 Oct, 2006

We enjoyed a few fall festivities over the weekend. We went to Deardorff Orchards, an apple orchard just down the road from us and picked our own apples. It was a beautiful day and just being outside enjoying the fall day was great. We also got some great apples and went for a wagon ride. […]

Upgrade to WordPress 2.0.4

  • 8 Oct, 2006

In one of the fastest upgrades ever, I’ve got Blog on a Stick up to WordPress 2.0.4. Thanks to YummyFTP, the fastest FTP client I’ve ever seen, it tool like a minute. Sweeeet.

10 Flock Issues/Wishes

  • 7 Oct, 2006

Flock wants to know what we, the users, think. In a post titled ‘Your Top 10 Issues/Concerns‘ they are asking people to voice their issues. Here are mine. 🙂 No Cocoa Widgets on a Mac. (This one is a wish.) MacUpdate listing description is awful. When a feed is loaded from the sidebar and I […]

HalloFF Halloween Theme for Firefox 1.5.x – Testing

  • 6 Oct, 2006

A while ago I posted about a Halloween theme I found on Deviantart. It was a port of my Hallo Halloween theme from MacOSX to Firefox. It looked pretty good, until I installed it. Then it was lacking in many areas. So, I reworked it and am now tesing HalloFF, my Halloween Firefox theme. HalloFF […]

Now 14.7% More IE Friendly

  • 5 Oct, 2006

Blog on a stick is now 14.7% friendlier to our IE visitors. I removed a script that allowed IE to actually render transparent PNG’s with transparent backgrounds. It seemed to be slowing down the blog for those users and I didn’t like that. So it’s gone. Instead, you get to see an ugly background on […]

Chicklet Creator Plugin 0.5 Released!

  • 3 Oct, 2006

— discontinued — The Chicklet Creator WordPress plugin just got better and much easier to use. Version 0.5 Includes: A configuration pane in Worpress’ admin area. New Feed Buttons. Lots of new code. All local images for fast load times. More like a real WordPress plugin. Check out the Chicklet Creator WordPress Plugin v0.5 and […]

Nightmare Before Christmas 3D & Desktops [updated]

  • 2 Oct, 2006

They’re back, Jack Skellington, Sally, Dr. Finklestein, Oogie Boogie, Zero and the whole Nightmare Before Christmas gang. This time, in digital 3D! Disney is re-releasing the movie in select theaters across the country on October 20th 2007. I haven’t found out where it’s playing in Minneapolis yet, but, if it is, I’ll be there! If […]

Halloween Desktops & Wallpaper

  • 1 Oct, 2006

It’s that time of year again when ghosts and goblins become ‘in’ and pumpkins get faces. Ahh yes, it’s Halloween time! A few years ago I created a Halloween Desktop page and they are still available today. However, I’m considering creating some new, larger, desktop wallpaper designs for this year. Nothing over the top, just […]

Cedar Point’s New Coaster – Maverick

  • 1 Oct, 2006

Cedar Point, the sister part of Valleyfair, is opening up their own old west themed coaster in 2007 called Maverick. Maverick is a steel coaster that has an amazing 95-degree angle drop and has linear synchronous motors to propel the train. Meaning it doesn’t climb slowly up a hill, it races up hills. Reaching speeds […]

Pulmonary Embolism – Foods to Avoid with Vitamin K

  • 30 Sep, 2006

Since my wife recently had a Pulmonary Embolism we have to watch what foods she eats. Vitamin K is one thing she doesn’t want to get to much of as it will interact with her coumadin medication. We know to say away from green vegetables, but there are a lot of other foods high in […]