WordPress Wednesday: Amazon QuickTags Plugin

Posted March 25th, 2009 and filed under blogtech, Web Design.

I published a few articles back in early 2005 and late 2006 explaining how you can edit your WordPress quicktags.js JavaScript file to add new buttons to your Edit Post menu. At the time this was the simplest way I knew to change the WordPress interface. Since then, however, every time a new version of… Read more »

It’s Not Too Late

Posted June 20th, 2008 and filed under My Life.

Don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time to get something in time for my 35th birthday next week. If you’re wondering what to get a guy who has everything, you should take a look at my 13-page Amazon wishlist …

PicoPad Wallet Notes

Posted March 8th, 2007 and filed under books, writing.

The PicoPad® is pure genius. It’s a pad of sticky notes — with a tiny pen — in a case the size of a credit card that you can easily slip it into your wallet. The PicoPad and its refills are also incredibly inexpensive. I am always scribbling notes on the backs of business cards… Read more »

Amazon Wishlist Yahoo! Pipe

Posted February 21st, 2007 and filed under Programming.

Today I decided that my life would not be complete if I didn’t learn how to use Yahoo! Pipes. So I gave it a shot. I couldn’t really think of anything I wanted in a pipe, so I decided to try building one that would let me search eBay for items on my Amazon wishlist…. Read more »

Naperville Public Library Books

Posted January 31st, 2007 and filed under books.

When I got to the office today there was a package sitting on my desk. I received my sixth copy of Gregg Easterbrook‘s “The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse” — I keep giving them away! — via Amazon’s used book marketplace. The book is in near-perfect condition, perhaps because it… Read more »

I Like Presents

Posted November 28th, 2006 and filed under College Football, My Life.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! This is when everyone starts asking me, “So what do you want for Christmas?” Every year my answer is the same. “I don’t really want anything. I need cash. If you have a burning desire to buy me a gift, check out my Amazon wishlist.” To make… Read more »

DropCaps, Amazon Tags for WordPress

Posted September 20th, 2006 and filed under blogtech, Programming, Web Design.

I have finally updated two of my WordPress hack tutorials so that they are compliant with v. 2.04. The first one — DropCaps — allows you to put that nifty “dropcap” into a post. This post begins with a dropcap I. The second one — Amazon Tags — adds two new buttons to your editing… Read more »

WordPress Mod: DropCaps

Posted March 13th, 2005 and filed under blogtech, Web Design.

The chances of me ever using the WordPress str QuickTag are pretty slim, so I replaced it with a drop-capper. (The T in this paragraph should appear as a dropcap for you if you’re using a browser that handles CSS properly.) Pretty nifty, I think. Want to do it?

WordPress Mod: Amazon QuickTags

Posted March 11th, 2005 and filed under blogtech, media.

I wanted to add nifty little Amazon links to my posting window … so I did. Grab my zipped version of quicktags.js and you can, too. This is the javascript file that builds the row of buttons above your posting window (e.g. str, em, del, etc.) My version adds two buttons: one for quick-linking to… Read more »

Perl v. Pearl

Posted September 2nd, 2003 and filed under comedy, media.

Note to hep-cat Amazon employees: “Perl the programming language” “Pearl Jam the rock band”.