I hope I haven’t shocked anyone, but this is still the home of Jonathan Franzone and my various technical ramblings. I have been working on a new theme for the site… from scratch. I have tweaked WordPress themes before and thought that there was really nothing to it. This was my first full-on theme though …
It’s that pumpkin time of year again and you should already see the carved pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns scattering the country. I just came across this Squid Lens, Pumpkin Carving Video Showcase. There are videos of some amazing carved pumpkins such as this one (click through to the site if you cannot see the video): There …
I just posted an article (actually a link to another article) about Microsoft, Yahoo and Google in the online advertising arena. No surprises there; you can see it directly below. After publishing though I looked down at the AdSense block that follows each of my postings and… what!? Seriously, “Anti Monkey Butt Powder“? What the …
Every once in a while I like to post links to one of my favorite financial sites, The Motley Fool. This usually because they are covering some aspects of one of the big tech companies. In this case Rick Aristotle Munarriz has written a very good analysis of the financial states of generating revenue from …
I thought I’d share another one of my personal scripts. This one is a script that I use to backup this website including files and the MySQL database. It is very simple and straightforward so I won’t bother with long explanations. If you have any questions about it please feel free to comment. On tip …
I do! I do! This is a testament to a) my stupidity and b) the simplicity of the WordPress installation/upgrade process. I would never, ever condone performing an upgrade on your website in the middle of Monday morning. Why? Well, that is usually one of the peak times of usage for most websites (unless they …
I wrote a little while back about a guy named Mike (Stay At Home Dad, Geek Style) who is running the Stay At Home Dad iMac Give-Away. Up for grabs is a brand new, unopened 20″ Apple iMac. It has a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1 GB of memory, a 250 GB …
I am not a huge .NET fan, but I am mature enough to overcome my personal likes and dislikes in a professional setting and use whatever is needed. I recently ran into a situation programming in C# that I needed to create a method that took it’s parameters by reference. Why would you want to …
Don’t you just love it when comedians make music? King Tut is a hilarious song done by Steve Martin for SNL (Saturday Night Live). My favorite line? … He’s my favorite honky. There is also an embedded video below the lyrics for your viewing pleasure. 🙂 Click through to the site if you cannot see …
I’ve been skydiving on multiple occasions. Some would say that takes some… well, guts. But surfing on a wave this huge? WHAT! You have got to be kidding me. (Click through to the site if you cannot see the video) I extracted this video from an article titled The 10 Craziest Competitive Sports (You Never …