Author: mccormicky

Add an extra sidebar to any WP theme

Jai Verma has written out a very easy to follow tutorial on adding an extra sidebar to any WP theme.
Some people have a gift when it comes to explaining how to do something. Loads of people have written WP tutorials but seem to bury you in terminology so that very few could follow without being smart enough to have written the tutorial themselves. And in which case they wouldn’t need any help,would they?
Check it out.Easy to do and a heck of a lot less painful than cooking a 12 pound turkey in a Showtime Rotisserie oven. But that is another story.
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Overpriced Hosts

Want to hear the sad history of my dad’s Website?

We all make mistakes and the biggest one was the choice of Purehost.
Oh wait-my dad never actually chose Purehost.
That’s right-he was automatically switched to them when his Dell- provided- with -computer- purchase- free site was bought by Purehost. All customers unlucky enough to have a Dell hosted Website found themselves being told that their once free site would now cost 200 bucks a year. It was like it or eff off and get your own host.

My dad paid up. And he stayed and stayed. His site made no money yet he paid money he couldn’t afford for it. My dad isn’t the type to throw good money away after bad but in this case he has. For YEARS. I think since 1998 if you can believe it.

Maybe it was the fearful “early days” of the web that froze my dad into this very bad situation. Whatever it was I was too busy working in retail after getting a useless education in fine art to know about or care. Jump 12 years ahead
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Birthdays

For some reason I am very bad at birthdays. I am also flagrantly late.

Last year on my pal Gail’s birthday party I fell asleep and woke up at 10pm because she was calling me asking where my ass was. The party started at 7. I rushed the primping routine to get to south Williamsburg before dawn, hitting the liquor store on the way to scoop up as much wine as I could carry. I got there at midnight. We ended up having a fine old time and once again my chronic lateness was a great source of amusement.

I finally got Adam his birthday present almost one month late and was important that I show a bit of an effort since I’d spoiled his actual birthday so thoroughly. I ended up spending more money than I meant to spend thus raising the birthday present spending bar just a little higher than last year’s. I hope he doesn’t spend as much on me this year because at this rate we soon might not be able to afford one another.