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Sometimes, surprises can be a very good thing. Many times they’re not but this one is very welcome and special, indeed. Late Friday afternoon a message arrived from Donna Stevens, our good friend at the Planetary Society, informing us of their surprise. Read the Full Story...

WordPress 3.3 hit release just a few days ago, so I dived into the code of the new Admin system to figure out what had changed.

As with all things open source, if you have a good idea that stands the tests of use and time, eventually it will find its way into core. As a result, my code is shrinking some with each new release of WordPress Read the Full Story...

Give Me Some Space! Many of our friends, colleagues and visitors to our blogs and websites are Space Buffs. Either they work in the space industry as scientists, astronomers, astrophysicists, teachers, space artists, or are just plain crazy about space. We are, too, and we work the space theme into a LOT of our creations. We have developed many different artworks in glass of various types Read the Full Story...

Everything. A person’s name stays with them for their entire life and long after they’ve departed this continuum that they share with us for too short a time. Choosing one is a huge responsibility. Choosing the right one is daunting at times. It has to “fit” and, if you’re of the creative and imaginative type, like us, it has to be interesting. At its very best, a name for Read the Full Story...

Our lives are so much more rich because we have rescued families of Maine Coon and Bengal kittens but this first post is about a different kind of rescue. Sometimes, it is difficult to know who is the stray.

We have a number of breeds as “singletons”; most of whom arrived here on their own, determined that this is a nice place and they want to stay. We Read the Full Story...

With the release of WordPress 3.2, it’s time for a plugin update. The Admin Screen layout and menus have changed a bit, many things for the better, and Ozh updated his plugin for v3.2 compatibility. My turn. Going in, my concern was how to make these new changes and not have WordPress 3.1.x users end up with screwed up menu bars. No way to know until I dived into Read the Full Story...

And helped us reach our goal, then go on to surpass it by 17% before the deadline brought pledges to a close. This exhibit would not have been possible without their generous support and we can’t thank them enough. Our spirits were greatly lifted as the pledges began coming in, so it wasn’t only funding that was needed. As a result, our first Kickstarter Project is now in the Read the Full Story...

Our first Kickstarter Project has just launched. What’s Kickstarter? It’s a new and innovative way for individuals across the globe who are interested in what an artist does, or wants to do, to fund creative projects by pledging various levels of support according to what they each can afford. Doesn’t have to be a lot. Each pledge level has rewards that the project’s backers will receive Read the Full Story...

Short time between initial plugin release and the first update but it had to be done… and quick. Downloads of the first Admin Menus Fixed version were chugging along nicely for a number of days, with no reports of bugs, etc. Then, while researching why Popular Posts was suddenly returning no results by deactivating recently updated plugins, one-by-one, to try to sort out if there were a Read the Full Story...

The Story of the Admin Menus Fixed WordPress Plugin

It all started as a hack. I use a really cool plugin authored by Ozh—his Admin Drop Down Menu. It puts a thin horizontal bar across the top of the Admin screens with drop-down menus, so you can turn off the wide column of standard menus that runs down the left side and Read the Full Story...