Author: jess

  • Gustav in Tioga, Louisiana

    We evacuated Houma this past Saturday and stayed in my parents’ house north of Alexandria, La in Tioga. Of course, with our luck, Gustav hit this area either as a category 1 or darn close to it.

  • Hurricane Gustav Preparations

    Hurricane Gustav Preparations

    I am writting this from my parents’ house in Tioga, Louisiana the day or so before hurricane Gustav is expected to make landfall. On Friday my dad and I boarded up the house on Levron St. in Houma, Louisiana. We grilled up some good steaks that evening. Caidy got us up at 6:30 am on…

  • Pete, Son of Pete

    Pete, Son of Pete

    This is Pete, and Son of Pete. Pete was rescued from a Best Buy parking lot. Son of Pete just fell off Pete when we moved. I am also testing the WordPress iPhone app.

  • Yank Widget 1.0

    I’ve decided to release Yank Widget 1.0 for the Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition. I wanted to do more for this plugin, but ran out of time. It works fairly well as a way to add secondary static content to the sidebars for a particular post or page. The user interfaces are not quite what…

  • WordPress 2.6 Development Notes

    Okay, time to start some collections of notes for WordPress 2.6.

  • Against Nature at Albert Pike in Arkansas

    Against Nature at Albert Pike in Arkansas

    My friends finally got me to show up for the annual get together. This year we all spent a great weekend at the Albert Pike Recreation Area in the Ouchita National Forest located in south west Arkansas just north of Texarkana. Click the album image to the right for full set of photos, and I’m…

  • Where the %#@&! is WP Super Edit 2.0?

    Good news is that I MUST start work again on WP Super Edit for WordPress 2.5. I have clients and users dependent on it like junkies, and I really want to move on to WordPress 2.5. Bad news is that life has been beating the crap out of us lately:

  • Recent WordPress Security Notes

    In “WordPress Security Prevention, Reactions, and Scares,” Lorelle VanFossen notes recent information about general Web security and specifically WordPress. She includes helpful tips and a couple of plugins I want to check out.

  • Will .EDU become the next splog haven?

    Today was the launch of blogs.pi.edu. Is anything sacred? Will .EDU loose that recognition like .ORG did? They say: