Geek Out, with Joseph Hinson
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We have eliminated the need for miracles
…We have insulated ourselves from miracles. We no longer live with such reckless faith that we need them. There is rarely room for the transcendent in our lives. If we get sick, we go to a doctor. If we need food, we go to a store and buy it. We have eliminated the need for miracles. If we had enough fa…
Controlling a Budget; Restaurants
My family unit (at this point in time) is myself, my wife, and my 16 month old daughter. In the past year we have budgeted sporatically, but as of late have gotten back on the wagon. The biggest area of controllable spending for us was restaurants. This past month, with some extra travel expendatures an…
Budget Forms (oldie but a goodie)
Budget Forms (.xls spreadsheets)
My wife and I make a Zero Based budget every month. That means every dollar is planned out. I’ve commented a bit in the spreadsheets and will more than likely put up a tutorial on how they work. By the way, if you don’t have office, get OpenOffice.org (I…
5 things I’d Like to see the iPhone Do
1. Wirelessly synch with my computer
Why would that be so difficult? Zune does it. The Things app for the iPhone even does it, but the iPhone doesn’t natively do that? I just don’t understand why not.
2. Update my podcasts automatically
Why not?
3. Pair to a bluetooth keyboard
As much as I l…
Geekitopia 1.0 (the theme) released
I’ve been working on my old theme that I called Geekitopia. The design for this was originally to captivate my personality with the color pallete and the feel of the site. I love classic games and geeky stuff, so that’s what’s going on in the theme. I also , so I added a color scheme fo…
All in Favor of Daylight Saving Time…
Get up an hour earlier.
I mean really. I don’t care if it’s a little darker in the morning, it means my daughter will sleep longer. She went from normally getting up at around 7:30-8am, to now 6:30-7am. That’s a big difference in my body clock. As soon as I get home from work now itR…
WordPress Plugin: Slim Title
By default, if a post is set to visibility: Private, or Password Protected, the word “Private:” or “Protected:” is prepended to the title. With a simple google search I found a code snippet that worked in replacing those words with nothing, or if I so choose, anything I li…
Wordpress and my ongoing love affair with it.
I am a HUGE WordPress fan. Considering I work with it every day, I understand a good deal more than most people about what it can do. I have built websites that don’t appear to be WordPress sites at all, I call this “WordPress Invisibility”. Doing this is fairly easy actually. Well,…
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My name is Joseph, this is my site where I like to do geeky things. I'm gonna go ahead and say I know WordPress, and talk a lot about it. Enjoy your stay, and feel free to comment on my posts.
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