In the previous post, I showed how to create fancy mouseover buttons in wordpress without having to resort to the ugliness javascript. However, the post finished up with one very big issue….. You can’t include CSS definitions in a wordpress blog post because they need to be placed in the header of your blog. Well, …
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Creating mouseover buttons in wordpress using CSS
One of the issues that I ran into when porting my websites over to wordpress was the lack of built-in image mouseover capabilities. My previous website used dreamweaver, and had mouseover using javascript built-in. Of course, one simple way to do this would be to copy the javascript over from the old site into the …
Read MoreEditing the ‘/etc/hosts’ on your Vista or Windows 7 Computer
When migrating a domain over to a new provider, one of the things that you might run into is the need to wait a day or two for the DNS record to propagate. DNS is the service that maps your host name to an IP address that can be resolved on the network. Something that …
Read MoreReview – Sodastream soda making machine
Let’s start off with the hardware. The machine is mostly plastic, but it appears durable. I’m a great abuser of products and I haven’t managed to break anything on it yet. The bottles are of above-average plastic thickness, so they’ll probably last as long as the company claims they will. The CO2 canisters are well …
Read MoreReview: iRobot Roomba 550 / 551
This is a review of the iRobot Roomba cleaning robot. The iRobot roomba is a robot that claims to be able to vacuum for you. As vacuuming the floor is one of those tasks that I put off and rarely get around to, it seemed like a good product to evaluate. I evaluated it for …
Read MoreNixie Tube Clock
This is a product review of the TubeHobby NCV2.1-14 Nixie Tube Clock Kit. For those unfamiliar with nixie tubes, they are a technology that dates from the 1960s. Nixies are glass gas-filled tubes operating on approximately 170 volts DC. Each tube has 10 cathodes, one for each of the numerals 0-9 and one anode. Whereas …
Read MoreMore wordpress benchmarks on godaddy hosting
Ran a few more tests and have some conclusive results… This time we’re going to see the difference between my original database (that had external access enabled) and migration to a new database (that has external access disabled). Experiment conditions – A random URL fetched every 5 minutes from a pool of 27 URLs. Only …
Read MoreViper 350 alarm install in TJ Jeep
This write-up is on a Viper 350 Plus that I install last week. The goal of this system was to have power door locks and keyless entry, but I found that buying a complete alarm system cost little more than buying just a keyless entry system. Personally I don’t give a hoot about the alarm …
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