Lately I’ve been getting pretty tired of launching sites for clients on WordPress with minimal Inline PHP or advanced HTML, only to have the client edit it with TinyMCE and subsequently save it (despite my repeated warnings).  Naturally, this almost always destroys your purdy layouts and results in multiple calls to my cell phone , usually around 4AM.

I realize the reason I’m putting people on a CMS specifically because not everyone reads PHP-code like english, so naturally they can’t be blamed for this mistake!  All other Visual Editor disablers will either disable TinyMCE site-wide or not at all, but this always conflicts with the lay-user that naturally wants to still edit their posts without doing it in HTML code.  So… how to keep them from breaking their site while allowing them the ease to still create blog posts??

My response was to create a nifty little plugin to disable the editor for the Page Editor, but not for the Post Editor.  It was simpler than I thought, and you can download it, of course, for free!

Recently, there have been many calls from the online community to cut through unnecessary clutter and show ONLY the most pertinent information one particular time.  Chrome has been the most recent rendition of this, as it incorporates its “omnibar” for virtually any task you may want to do, and a tabbed replacement for the menu bar to save valuable pixels on the user’s screen.  Some have called for even less clutter, but at what point have we created too much of not enough?

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I came across an interesting tidbit on popsci.com that purports that there’s a good chance that alien robot races may exist somewhere in the universe.  In the full article, the author hypothesizes that intelligent extraterrestrials could have exchanged organic brains for artificial ones as their “stock” hardware was outgrown. more…

Many of us, whilst with many paths online to our identities, like to preserve some semblance of our online security. For me, one of my favorite pastimes is keeping my home address off of the ICANN records. I opted to use the Yahoo! Domains Private registration to keep me protected, but is private domain registration too private? more…

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I must say that for years I have been avoiding the use of any blogging application or activity. For one, I’ve always felt that blogs were mainly reserved for the vast majority of people who had absolutely NOTHING to say! I used to spend countless hours poring through all the useless garbage posts that people felt were pertinent to some unknown quantity of viewers out on the internet. Time and time again I would turn away from my computer in disgust having found either nothing or largely unsubstantiated claims and/or opinions that were not useful for much of anything.

The other observation I noticed is that the lack of face-to-face communication made people more prone to inventing an alter-ego to make themselves more credible. YouTube is a perfect example of this. More often than not you will find a livid commenter damn near posting a fake resume in an effort to sway livid commenter #2/bait-taker into thinking he/she is a seasoned mechanical engineer/rocket scientist or merely the executive director of the Pentagon (whatever that means in terms of credibility). While this tendency is more rampant and pervasive on YouTube, it unfortunately is not exclusive to that site alone.

It was about five years ago that I vowed NEVER to create such a site of my own unless I had something that I felt was of value either to my clients or a considerable portion of the internet masses.

So here you have it–the first post and introduction to what is hopefully a plethora of useful, substantiated, and unadulterated information! I promise to mark opinion pieces as such from this point forward.

While I focus mainly on design and information services (PHP [and thus HTML/XHTML], JS, AJAX, SQL, Flash, Actionscrip, etc.), you will also find posts regarding some of my more business-oriented hobbies. This includes (and is not limited to) photography/cameras, various technological hardware, gaming, and media production. This is still very much up in the air, as it depends largely on the feedback of the readers. As of this post, this blog is merely an hour old; hopefully you will see many positive developments in the near future.

I thank you for your support in advance, and happy reading!