I have recently been using the customizr theme in a project. One of the situations in that project required that I come up with a CSS solution. Which I present in this post. Continue reading
CSS and Title elements
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Author Archives: Hugh Paterson III
Car won’t start… until I replaced the starter…
Car won't start, I am not sure if it is the starter or something electrical. Remember my previous post about being grateful my car was not towed, that was the beginning of my Stater going out. It died a few days later in my drive way. The hiatus from having an operational car inspired Becky and I to bike more. Believe it or not, this is one of the first times I have turned to YouTube for a non-digital solution of video based learning. I watched the following videos which taught me how to test my starter. Continue reading
Which license and why?
It occurs to me that every time a new license is produced it is done as a response to a social context. That is, society has delivered a certain set of norms or reactions to existing ownership and licensing practices. It also occurs to me that with each new license created that there is an increased availability of licensing options to potential license users. Inherently this means that any given license should be expected to be used less with the release of a new licenses. I wonder if there is a way to plot the use of licenses, and the growth rate of new licenses.
Pictures of People
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This article has some good advise about arranging people for the shot. http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2013/11/tips-pros-posing-subjects-group-portrait-photography
Biking through Eugene with Becky
I am spending a wonderful day biking Eugene with Becky because the starter on our car won't function.
QR codes and business cards…
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So I am looking to redo my business card. I thought I might put a QR code on it. So I stopped by this site: http://goqr.me/. Lets see how it works out. I am a little concerned with claims made that vCard QR codes do not work with certain devices: http://qrlicious.com/2012/03/23/top-5-rules-for-qr-codes-on-business-cards/.
Complex vs. Prolific Systems
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From time to time I look at how various organizations evaluate and acquire new systems. This post is rather interesting comparing the acquisition of two complex systems by the Air Force.
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/75aee4a354bc
It is also interesting when comparing motorbikes in Nigeria and the US. The ones from/made in China are Prolific.
Zapier and WordPress
I found out today that the Zapier Service does not work with PODs Advanced Content Types, nor does it add content to custom fields in WordPress. - This service had so much potential...
I was hoping to use Zapier to move data from a Google Spreadsheet to PODs Advanced Content Type. It looks like I will have to rebuild the PODs Advanced Content Type as a Custom Post Type, or test out a plugin like:http://wordpress.org/plugins/wpsync/.
Images in the Free Culture Movement
I have been really encouraged by the availability of images which have been released under Creative Commons licenses.
While there are a lot of icon sets out there, here are some of my "go to" places.
- The first place I usually go for free icons isthenounproject.com. There is a growing community behind the endeavor and their management operations are being taken seriously.
- A second place which I have found helpful is: mapicons.nicolasmollet.com.
I have also found these images which are SVG for maps: http://map-icons.com/
As an archivist, I wonder where will these icons go if they are just privately hosted? - Is there an archive for these things?
Sled and Tobbogan Research
I research all sorts of things... but one area I do not do enough research in is fun - especially winter fun.
With the resent 5" (or theres about) of snow in Eugene I thought I would pull a memory or two out of my past and take a look online to see if I could find any pictures. I am particularly interested in sledding. This is sorta new. Let me explain. Growing up I learned to ski. It was an individualistic sport and did not require cooperation. In contrast to the atmosphere around skiing (at least my exposure to it), sledding is much more of a social enterprise. In database terms, in stead of a one-to-one relationship (skier to skies) it is a many-to-one relationship (people to sled). Give this past I think it might be time to revisit the sled in context of the social element and re-evaluate "sledding".
Last night some students in Becky's program and I got out to a local hill and went sledding. It was a blast. Even though I am the guy in the red jacket. (permissions on video no-longer work)
Meadowbrook Sectional Toboggan
It reminded me of a sled my dad had when I was in the third grade. It was an orange. Recent internet sluthing has shown that it was likely a Meadowbrook Sectional Toboggan. There is a patent for it in google. The only picture I could find on the Internet for the make/model is below.
Long Toboggan
Foldable in three sections.
In extended position