Entries by Mark

Gobble, Gobble.

Happy Thanksgiving. Let’s all show how thankful we are by donning our extra loose pants and stuffing our faces full of stuffing and other good food business.

Karen Vail’s Replacement

Many of you have been highly interested in where Karen Vail has gone from The Large Morning Show in the Afternoon on KTRS 550 AM. You can read about that here. It seems as if the period of try outs for Karen’s spot is over and that Tina Dalpiaz won the job. Though she seems […]

How To: Use Google Spreadsheets as a Data Source in WordPress (Part 1)

This is the first in a two post series that will walk you through how to insert content from Google Spreadsheets Inline into WordPress pages. Background Recently, I was converting a site from ASP to WordPress. This site details a mortgage loan and its amortization schedule. The amortization schedule is built with Google Spreadsheets. I […]

How to reset your Zune

I use a Microsoft Zune as my portable media player. Some people are all high on the iPod, but those are too rich for my blood.

Go Vote!

Today is election day in these Grand Old United States. As such, if you are of voting age and not a felon, illegal immigrant or otherwise disqualified from casting a ballot, get off your butt and get to the poll.

Tip: Use F2 to Rename Files and Folders

Sometimes some of the easiest tricks on a computer are the least often used. I would wager that over 3/4 of the population has never intentionally used a single function key on their keyboard. Sure, they might have mashed one or two in a fit of rage as their system locks up for the 17th […]

Why you need an ISP Independent E-Mail Account

These days, when you sign up for Internet service from any Internet Service Provider (ISP), you always get at least one e-mail account. Some providers will give you ten or more accounts with your service. In my opinion, they could give you eleventy billion accounts and you shouldn’t use any of them as your primary […]

Google Adsense Ads not showing up?

While putting this site together, I ran into an issue where some of the Google Adsense ad units were not displaying. They were all using the same code, so as such I was baffled. What I observed was that all ads would display on the individual post pages (single.php), but some were missing on the […]