Hawkwind – Death Trap
Death Trap from Hawkwind’s 1979 release P.X.R.5. – recorded 1977-78. Full on Punk here and it rocks – Devo Prog.
Notification Center – Best Keyboard Shortcuts Ever
Did you know that you want to magically open the Notification Center? yeah, me too. Windows Key + A = you’ve been notified! You’re welcome!
PHP 5 upgrade – [mysql_old_password] construct error
Issue: Drupal, WordPress, any PHP based Website or Cron jobs stop working after your web host upgrades from PHP 4.x to 5.x. In my case the issue was random as some sites and Cron jobs on the same host broke but most did not. Error […]
Dreamweaver – Find and Replace Empty Lines
Dreamweaver has excellent automated code cleanup functions that handle just about anything based on your code formatting preferences but it does not handle empty lines. To do so you need to use regular expressions. Related reading: Dreamweaver Using regular expressions – Part 1: Understanding the […]
Superfish – Thematic Theme Menu Speed in WordPress
The Thematic Theme uses Superfish to manage multi-level drop-down menus. Overall this works very well but the default Superfish menu speed of “normal” is far to slow for my liking. Slow enough I feel people will miss the drops downs unless there is a […]
Koken is back – Image Gallery Software
When my favorite photo gallery software Gallery closed up shop after 14 years I was faced with the decision to migrate to a photo community like 500px, photo hosting sites like Zenfolio, Photobucket or SmugMug, or a major corporate hosted solution like Yahoo’s Flickr. There’s an endless […]
POND – Midnight Mass
Pretty Sure this is rock n roll Pond – Midnight Mass (Live on KEXP)
Upgrade Ubuntu Droplet – Digital Ocean
I’ve been running a LAMP stack setup on a Digital Ocean Droplet for over a year and wanted to upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 15.04. Following the steps below I was good to go in about 20 minutes. My setup is very basic – […]
Windows Explorer – Best Keyboard Shortcuts Ever
To run windows you have to explore! Windows Key + E = badda boom there is yo direc-tory-tree! You’re welcome!
The Donkeys – Ride The Black Wave (Live on KEXP)
http://KEXP.ORG presents The Donkeys performing “Ride The Black Wave” live in the KEXP studio. Recorded July 29, 2014. The Donkeys – Website
Beast Mode
Best viewed full screen with the volume up! From Nations Number 1 Beast
Enable Remote Desktop – TP-LINK AC1900 Archer C9
As the number of devices and bandwidth needs in my household increased so to did the frequency of reboots and number of issues for my Netgear N600 router. The router had served us well but wasn’t keeping up with my Comcast and WiFi device capabilities […]
Whiskey Acres – From Seed to Spirit
The Birth of the Bicycle
The Birth of the Bicycle http://mashable.com/2015/08/29/evolution-of-bicycles/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
The Jam – Five Songs
The Jam – Start The Jam – News Of The World (1978) The Jam – Eton Rifles The Jam – Bill Hunt The Jam – Butterfly Collector
Windows 10 Upgrade – Groove Music with Homegroup
Issue – After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 Groove Music fails to list any music despite being correctly pointed at the default Music location where my 10,529 songs and 1,401 artists reside. I removed and re-added the default locations with no change: C:\Users\*username*\Music, […]
GoPro – Tour De France 2015
Local Disk Galore
My iPhone had an interesting issue after upgrading to iOS8 … Infinite virtual disks!? Unfortunately it was but an illusion, all gone after restarting the phone.
Zeppelin – Kashmir – Louisville Leopard Percussionists
Strava
Basement tapes
I don’t pretend I know how to play, but I do have fun. We hang, we drink, we play. Songs are live improv, lyrics are developed on the fly, jamming is long, sometimes magic happens, sometimes not. The Flying EP – All flight videos are for The […]
Setup A LAMP Website on VPS Server
My photo website’s excellent software Gallery had gone end of life with no support. I used the opportunity to explore new photo gallery software, Koken, and move from shared hosting to my first VPS – Virtual Private Server. VPS is like going from renter to home […]
iPhone – Disable eMail Sound and Vibration Notifications
Are you suffering from notification overload? It can be a bit confusing as to where to change or disable notifications on iOS devices. “Notifications” would be the logical place to manage notifications and it does work, sometimes. Sounds is where we’ll be looking today, […]
Cortana – Disable Weather Alerts
Cortana is awesome until you know, there’s weather. And then you’re getting weather alerts from Cortana and your weather app (Blue Skies for me). Here’s how to disable the alerts. Disable Weather Alerts in Cortana – Windows Phone 8.1 Open Cortana Tap the three bars at […]
Disk Clone – Windows Activation Error 0xC004C008
I recently cloned Windows 8 with apps and data from a 500gb 5400RPM Hybrid disk to a 500gb SSD using “Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0“. The process went smoothly – install Paragon’s software and connect the new SSD with a USB to SATA cable. Launch the […]
Windows Phone – AutoPlay
When you first connect a Windows Phone an Explorer window will open to the phones folders and files. You’ll also be prompted to install Phone App for Desktop. After installing Phone App for Desktop management of options moves from AutoPlay to the Phone App […]
OneDrive – Stop Auto Importing Photos
After an update on 12/22/2014 OneDrive started magically importing photos and videos from my iPhone (my Windows Phone is managed by Phone App for Desktop). Microsoft refers to the process as “Auto Save”. This is the second OneDrive update in a row where the change has silently occurred […]
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Adrian Belew – Guitar Virtuoso
Adrian Belew was playing in bar & cover bands going seemingly nowhere and hitting thirty. Then Frank Zappa’s limo driver was asked for a live music destination in Nashville. They were covering the stones when Frank tuned in, stayed and made Adrian an offer. Playing […]
Phone Wars
This is my house – Nokia 1020 Windows Phone, iPhone 5, Moto X Android whatever version. The Moto-X is badass, Windows 8 on Nokia kinda cool and iPhone is awesome as always (but getting boring?!).
Remote Desktop – Black Screen Of Death
The Issue – When using Windows Remote Desktop client the remote screen turns black right after login and you have no control. The issue can affect workstations and servers, laptops or desktops and happens in Windows 7 through Windows 10 with most any version […]
How to take a Screenshot – Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 2 Adaptive Keyboard
Adaptive keyboard sounds cool right? It does make for a very clean, uncluttered and easy to use keyboard. But it also makes accessing some functions harder, more time consuming and without knowing the special commands you’d be forgiven for thinking several common keyboard functions were completely dropped. Welcome to […]
Create Database Model From Existing Database – MySQL Workbench
In case I’m not the only one who had trouble figuring out how to create a Database Model from an existing Database using MySQL WorkBench. Database – MySQL Database Tool – MySQL WorkBench v 6.1 Documentation – Database Modeling using MySQL Workbench Steps to […]
New Orleans – Frenchmen Street – Bourbon Street
Pics from two quick two night trips to New Orleans. I’d never visited, now twice in month for the NCTM and IRA conferences at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center. One over a weekend that had me missing my daughters return from School and Mothers day. Bourbon Street […]
Windows Phone – Stop Facebook Birthday Reminders
Social Media integration on Windows Phone is excellent but can have some downsides. One issue I’ve experienced and heard others note is due to Facebook integration. During installation of the Facebook app you’re asked to connect FB with your phone. This integrates Facebook with your People hub, […]
Ghost Drop Down Menus – stuck on screen
Ghost drop down menu’s that stay on your screen until you reset your resolution, logout or reboot. At first you think – no problem, I’ll just ignore that. Then like a dripping tap on a quiet evening you find you’ve suddenly lost all focus […]
Windows 8.1 Update 1
The mighty keyboard and mouse have roared and Microsoft has listened. Windows 8.1 Update 1 is out and has some (some!) nice changes for content creators and other non touch screen users. Most notable is that instead of forking the OS into mobile/touch & […]
CS-Cart – Page Speed and Optimization
Some simple steps to reduce CS-Cart page load times. Prep Steps Optimization references Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site – Yahoo Optimize caching – Google Increasing Application Performance with HTTP Cache Headers – heroku Speed Up Sites with htaccess Caching – Ask Apache Image […]
SPF records for Office 365
Some excellent resources if you’re hosting your own domain with Office 365. When doing so you’ll need to create a TXT SPF record for email. The SPF Generator Framework Wizard below was very helpful generating an SPF record that accounted for my webhost generated […]
The most beautiful Derny Race you may ever see
The Legendary Lightness – World Full Of You (Official Videoclip) Music by The Legendary Lightness Directed and edited by Adrian Winkler Photographed by Simon Huber and Mario Winkler Color Grading by Christian Müller Production: PiXiU Films, Laurin Merz Supported by Migros-Kulturprozent
Windows Phone – Not Recognized by Windows 7
Using the wonderful Nokia Lumia 1020 running Windows Phone 8 my computer has on several occasions been unable to recognize the device using the standard Nokia USB cable connecting to Windows 7.
Worlds First Digital Camera
From PetaPixel – “If you’re a digital photography buff, here’s some required trivia knowledge: what you see above is a photograph of the first digital camera ever built. It was created in December 1975 by an engineer at Eastman Kodak named Steve Sasson…” Read […]
Hosted email – Microsoft Exchange
Do you own your own domain and have a personal or small business website hosted along with email? If so you know the importance of email in day to day business and personal communications. Web hosts… not so much. I’ve actually had a couple […]
OneDrive – Sync My Documents
Here’s a quick and easy way to sync your My Documents folder and make it available to other computers and mobile devices via Microsoft OneDrive. This is the same process you can use to move your My Documents to any location of your choosing – a […]
Nokia Lumia 1020 High Res Camera Phone Test
New smartphone day! First let me say that I have an iPhone 5 for work and love it, great OS, the best ecosystem, pretty much flawless functionality, we can talk about iTunes and lack of storage access another time. Camera wise the iPhone 5 […]
Microsoft Surface Tablet capabilities
Excellent user video highlighting capabilities of the Surface 2. Expandable storage via microSDXC and USB3, massive multitasking, voice navigation and application control, full gaming…
Website – Ed Rudolph Northbrook Veldrome
Weekend launch party! I started this website in 1996, wow time flies. This current iteration based on WordPress with a customized HTML5 theme.
Website – Lucia’s Imports v3.0
Lucia’s Imports update v3.0. Wholesale eCommerce site. Moved all products, images and users from CubeCart 5 to CS-Cart 4, new skin and layout. Database migration handled very well (mostly) by Cart2Cart which I had previously used for a Miva Merchant to CS-Cart migration