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Walking the Dogs

I always feel bad that Izzy and Chase don’t get enough exercise. We are pretty bad at getting them the walks that they really could use. One of my commitments for the summer is to get into the habit of getting them out every day. We’ve done some nice 60 to 90 minute walks the last three days.

They love it. Its good exercise for them. And I can certainly use any exercise I can get as well. It definitely mellows Chase to get a good walk in. Izzy is still her usual hyperkinetic self, but maybe a little better.

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Taking Mazie to School

One member of our family sure is happy to have Dad home this summer! Mazie has been Daddy-this and Daddy-that. It’s awesome. She keeps asking me if I’m going to stay for a long, long time. You bet. Here she is before we went to school this morning.

Cute isn’t a big enough word. :-)

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Themes: The Worst of the WordPress Ecosystem

This is frustrating. I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to find a new WordPress theme for Tammy’s blog, Smaller Than a Redwood. This is so frustrating.

First, she can’t do it herself easily because the look of a theme is completely unpredictable of its functionality. I would argue that a theme that doesn’t support sidebar widgets and tags right out of the box, should just be deleted. Why do we still have this junk floating around the Internet?

Worse still is the volume of themes that are just purely broken. We found a theme and I started to “fix” it, meaning add tagging support, and then found out several of the themes own images were not in the download and cannot be found on the Internet.

Argh! Now, back to Google to try to sift through thousands of piles of crap and see if I can find a workable theme.

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Minnebar 3

See also Minnebar collection.

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New 130GB iPod has been syncing for two hours and it’s half-way done. Wow.

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Nearly done with tomorrows (errr, todays) Minnebar session materials.

Wow – 50 sets of handouts in full color is $170. Black & White of same, on 100% recycled paper, $27. Pass on color.

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Power WordPress Presentation Materials

I’m doing my Power WordPress presentation at Minnebar today. I decided to do the presentation today without any slides but instead give everyone handouts with the relevant tips & tricks. To share the wealth here are links to the PDF files for the three sections I’m covering, Performance, Plugin Review and SEO Basics.

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MarketWatch Farewell Video

Last night was my absolutely amazing farewell party at the Bernard’s house. The gang put together this awesome going away video for me. It’s just great. Thank you so much everyone. Who would have ever thought reading “twitters” could be so funny! There is an amazing, completely unexpected and inexplicable cameo at the end. But don’t skip to it! Sit back and enjoy…

That is just great. I’m speechless. 🤩

Links to most messages read:

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Just turned in SecurID, company ID, American Express card, etc. whew…

Completely overwhelmed with all the heartfelt comments from people on my last day.

Last tweet from my Dow Jones office. See you on the other side!

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I think that one of the four ports in this USB I have doesn’t get power. Stuff works fine on the other three, but not that one port. Odd.