practicing habitual skills
It’s Official!
WordCamp Toronto 2011 is now listed at WordCamp Central!
We have a date: November 5 & 6, 2011
We have a venue: George Brown College
We need sponsors! We need speakers! We need volunteers!
Most of all we want you to come out and enjoy a great WordCamp and learn more about WordPress and the Toronto WordPress community … and remember, even if you have never heard of WordPress before, you are more than welcome to come out and enjoy the time with us.
Just a quick picture I snapped with my iPhone over the holiday long weekend. It captured my imagination …
Are you ready for a challenging puzzle?
Make sure you have your thinking cap on for this one. It will challenge your senses … and perhaps your morals. You will need to really think outside the box and be on a roll to solve this connundrum.
When you are ready just click on the “Open Puzzle” link.
Adding “yet” to a statement can create potential. Just think of what you can accomplish by adding this word (with a comma) to a simple statement. You might also notice doing so will often change a negative into a positive. For example:
I am not a guitar virtuoso, yet.
Let’s try one with an exclamation mark:
You have never seen an Easter Rat, yet!
Now, let’s really punch it up and add an ellipsis (…) to the mix:
WordPress does not run every website … yet!
Aside from the little bit of whimsy above, what examples can you think of to generate great positive potential with a little word and a bit of punctuation?
Yesterday we were able to get away for one of our favorite summer activities. “Waterfalling” is the term we coined for it. It really is quite simple, especially for those that live in the Golden Horseshoe. This is a region of southern Ontario, Canada that wraps around the western end of Lake Ontario. The area is full of naturally occurring waterfalls thanks in most part to the geography of the Niagara Escarpment.
Here are some pictures I took with my iPhone of Tiffany Falls and Sherman Falls; and, the trails leading to them. All of the pictures are in order with the first nine from Tiffany Falls ending with the old stone fireplace. The balance are from the short hike into Sherman Falls.
I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as we enjoyed the waterfalls in person.
I saw the wpdevel announcement in my email this morning and also in the news block in the Administration Panels of the sites I check every morning.; and, as per my usual routine, I jumped right into upgrading to this latest nightly version.
Here is an excerpt from the official post on dot-org announcing this release:
It seems like just yesterday that we released WordPress 3.1, but it’s actually been almost three months. We’ve spent that time putting together a new release focused on performance improvements, and are ready for our first beta testers!
As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new version. If you break it (find a bug), please report it, and if you’re a developer, try to help us fix it.
One of the big items in WordPress 3.2 is the “fullscreen” editor for writing posts and pages … and I have to admit that I was not really expecting to make use of it, but as I write this post as a trial-run I am quite impressed! Kudos to the developers on this new feature. It may take some getting used to but I think it has a great deal of potential.
If you would like to update your WordPress self-hosted web site to the latest nightly build and help out with the testing, or simply just have some fun with the new features, please take a moment to read the article I wrote here for reference.
To make this specific to this latest version you will have to make a small modification to the the process, it’s very simple:
Enjoy!
Now that reads like an enticing coffee flavor; one you can imagine having just as interesting a taste, too. Today’s flavor is yet another blend by Timothy’s. This coffee reminds me of the rich flavors found inside a chocolate cherry cordial eaten on a warm summer day.
Of course with no cherry or chocolate mentioned in the name, you can imagine the surprise I received with my first taste … and it still tastes the same even after a few more cups as this is another specialty flavor I like to keep in our K-Cup carousel.
Yes, it is a coffee! This is one of those truly unique and pleasant surprises when tasting specialty coffees. Imagine if you will, the rich flavor of dark chocolate cake iced with caramel-coconut frosting … now imagine drinking that. There you have Timothy’s German Chocolate Cake coffee for the Keurig Brewing System … and my cup of coffee this morning. Although today is not the first time I have enjoyed this delightful brew it is definitely a good day to share it.
Enjoy!