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On April 25th I spent the day at WordCamp Reno-Tahoe where I gave a presentation on using WordPress as a CMS for affiliate marketing. Other than being the MC for WordCamp:Las Vegas, this was my first time putting together slides and a speech and presenting it in front of an audience.
For those who weren’t [...]

This morning I woke up early and hopped on a plane from Vegas and landed in Reno around 8:30. We quickly made our way to our hotel to drop of some bags and have a quick bite to eat before heading over to the Reynolds School of Journalism on the UNR campus to attend WordCamp [...]

I don’t normally write blog posts about celebrities, but the running commentary I’ve seen on Twitter over the past few days has forced me to throw my hat in the ring.
Earlier this week, Ashton Kutcher (from That ’70s Show, Punk’d, etc…) posted a video where he was said he recently found out he has over [...]

Chris and I are big fans of the bands Reckless Kelly and Micky and the Motorcars. It has even been mentioned that we might be groupies. For your consideration, I present to you the charges:

We’ve seen Micky and the Motorcars in Vegas one time.
We’ve driven to Los Angeles to see both bands together twice.
We’ve driven [...]

I’ve always thought it would be cool to write my own WordPress plugins. Plenty of times I’ve taken existing plugins and tweaked them here or there to do a slightly modified version of their original intent, but never have I started from scratch and created my own plugin. Until now, that is.
Last week I decided [...]