Special Thanks to a WordPress Plugin Author

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Dec 302010
 

I wanted to take a moment to thank Mr. Vasken Hauri. He is the author of the excellent Tagline Rotator Plugin for WordPress.  I use this plugin to rotate the quotes from the movie The ‘Burbs in my blog tagline.  He recently updated the plugin to version 2.0.  When I updated to the new version several bugs manifested themselves including duplicate entries and various additional characters being added to words with apostrophes in them.

I sent an email to Mr. Hauri and he literally responded within 2 hours and he updated the plugin to fix the issue the next day!  That’s service!  Thank you to Vasken for writing an excellent plugin and for providing personal service.  This is even more commendable when you factor in he does this for fun (not for profit) and he responded during the busy Holiday season.  Thank you sir!

Ikea Adventures

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Sep 052010
 

The truth about Ikea instructions

I’ve actually had great luck with assembling Ikea stuff. Today I got a new couch and I should have gotten it together in about 20 minutes. But(!) the fine folks who packed the couch box decided to give me one striped screw. So I hop in my car and take a 25 minute drive back to Ikea for one screw. I get it, drive back home, and……..I discover they gave me two nuts of the wrong type!  No way I am driving back to Ikea, so I head to Lowes. After 20 minutes of searching (with a friendly hardware department worker helping me) I found this (queue chorus!).  I am now sitting on it. 20 minutes of assembly with two hours of driving and shopping for a one nut in between.

At least the couch is comfortable.

My SWCV Experience

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Aug 152010
 

I attended Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando Friday 8/13! Tons of fun. I took my two sons while my baby daughter had girls day out with Mommy. My 5 and 3 year old boys held up rather well. They are big Star Wars fans already (my doing!) so they were in heaven.  They especially love the well done SW: The Clone Wars animated show on Cartoon Network.

Being a huge gamer one highlight for me was being able to briefly play Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. Both were excellent and I have no doubt the finished games will be great.  We also witnessed a live Sirius/XM interview with Matthew Wood, voice of General Grievous in Episode III.

Another interesting area was the Tattoo Pavilion.  I was able to stop at several of the booths and check out some the excellent Star Wars tattoos.  I saw Stormtrooper tattoos as well as Rebel Alliance and Imperial symbol tattoos being done.  I also talked to one artist who traveled to Orlando from overseas.  He asked me about my gaming arm sleeve and gave me compliments on it.  It was great to receive compliments on my tattoo from another tattoo artist.

The Orange County Convention Center here in Orlando was a great venue.  Everything was well organized and we didn’t have to wait in many lines at all.  SW Celebration had previously been held in the West or Midwest so it was great to see it in the Southeast.  I hope Celebration VI can be here too!  After the break, check out my Flickr gallery of my SWCV pics!
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