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  • Life as I know it…

    • Giants

      Technology such as it is, it's not difficult to be amazed by what we've accomplished as a people. Some of it awe-inspiring, some of it reprehensible, but all of it remarkable in terms of scale and imagination and determination and grit. It's easy to forget where the inspiration for such accomplishments originates. Easy to think we're original in our inclination towards the magnificent. I had the good fortune recently to be awe-struck by the natural world. To feel small. To understand just how foolish my impatience is. And to know that ours is but a transitory existence...and despite the havoc we wreak,...(read more)


    • Beginner's guide to using PHP w/ WordPress & Thesis

      Okay, let's start with an admission. I don't really understand PHP. HTML and CSS? Sure, got a pretty good handle on those, but PHP has me baffled. I don't understand why or how it works, but I do know...(read more)

    • How to create a new widget area

      I've found it helpful in certain situations to have widgetized areas (that is, places I can drag/drop widgets into from the Appearance>Widget menu) other than the standard Sidebar 1 and Sidebar 2. ...(read more)

    • How to style a sidebar widget

      If you've used The Thesis Theme for Wordpress, you know that out of the box, it has certain stylistic traits. That is, before making any changes at all, there is a certain style to the font, for examp...(read more)

    • How to add a Google +1 button

      I recently wrote a tutorial about putting Fixed Position Social Media Icons on your WordPress website, but since Google Plus seems to be a very popular request of late, I thought I would write a quick...(read more)

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    • To what end?

      I spend a lot of time feeling as though I ought to be doing something else. Something more. Like I'm wasting time, filling my days with folly. Admittedly, I'm not as productive as I could be. And my days are not full of toil. Have I failed, then? Is this cause enough to feel guilty? Seems so. Though perhaps there's another way of looking at it. I have few possessions and nothing in the bank. But if, by sheer force of will and more than a little luck, I can forget about all the other things...(read more)

    • Gone are the words

      They come and go and have gone again. It's a game of much consequence that I often play with too little respect. There's more at stake than an empty page. Even so, what's one blank page? Sometimes only that. But other times it's the desolation found in the aftermath of the disaster that, while sudden and tragic, could have been avoided. Not easily, maybe, but certainly just the same. That blank page, so recently a budding flower, now a fading memory of love and joy and life. Fading, but not ...(read more)

    • The highest goal of any art

      Is so simple, despite thoughts to the contrary. I was reading through some old content on this site recently - posts, quotes and postcards. In all honestly, I was dumbfounded. A lot of it just didn't make sense to me. "What did I mean by that?", I kept asking myself. And I started to get dejected because I just couldn't reconnect to the emotions that inspired each piece of writing. I began to think about my writing process and realized that I have never once planned a post. Sometimes I ha...(read more)

    • Dominance vs strength

      I read an article today about the impending reality that China's economy will eclipse our own in terms of total size (they say it will happen somewhere around the $19 trillion mark, and that could be in as little as five years). Lots of implications, to be sure, and certainly smart people around the world should consider them, hypothesize about them, plan for them, live in fear of them if they're inclined to do so. But not me. No, this article talks about our nation's strength, about our hege...(read more)