Posts tagged "blogging"

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Banff in the Winter

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:30:02 -0500 ✻ Banff, Alberta (51.17745973259274;-115.5708563489685) by

Michelle and I have been to Banff in all seasons and it's a gorgeous place to visit at any time of the year, even in winter. I was able to snap some quick photos on the drive there while Michelle took the wheel for a bit...

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DM Blog 2013

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:08:29 -0500 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

I've changed my blog's design several times over the years but I hadn't noticed that it's always been in December/January every year. This time, I decided to rewrite everything from the ground up – here are a couple features that I added...

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The 3 Dogs' Portrait, Again

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:33:27 -0700 ✻ Calgary, Alberta (51.048233684823494;-114.06316520402525) by

In July 2010 I posted a couple photos of our three dogs with their tongues out and back in November of this year I played around with one of those photos and came up with a black and white version...

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When Backups Fail...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:15:14 -0400 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

Two weeks ago when I was working on an arrangement for a client, my computer crashed and I lost my file. How could it be that I had not one, but three backups, and all three failed me?

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Life With Dogs

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 14:00:47 -0400 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

I really love dogs. I like animals in general, but I really love dogs. I didn't know this until Lorenzo came into our lives. It should be no surprise then that we ended up having three dogs...

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Michelle on DM Blog

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:03:39 -0500 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

After spending a couple hours getting a new installation of WordPress set up for Michelle, I decided to just create a new user for her on here instead of creating a whole new blog...

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WordPress Tag Cloud with Post Counts

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:42:38 -0400 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

One of the things that has annoyed me about WordPress for a long time is the inability to display a post count next to each tag in a tag cloud. Here's the code I came up with to accomplish this.

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HTML5 Threaded Comments

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:36:34 -0500 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

There are a couple HTML5 WordPress themes out there, but I wasn't able to find a proper implementation of HTML5 comments anywhere, especially when it comes to threaded comments. All the more reason to create my own...

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The 3 Dogs Trailer

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:44:48 -0500 ✻ Toronto, Ontario (43.6703047604371;-79.39150454232788) by

This is my first blog post since the new HTML5 changes went live on my blog. Here's a video trailer that Michelle and I created in iMovie '11 back in November...