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Trick Out Your MySpace Page

Disclaimer: I don’t use MySpace. However, this Wired Hot-To Wiki article provides links to some great resources for tricking out your MySpace page.

Have you seen Neyland?

Uploaded by Michael Wender 21st April, 2008
This morning I found this flyer in my paper box, and since I’ve recently added many more local readers (aka Knoxville) to my blog, I thought I would help out my neighbors by posting it. Given the location of my office, I suspect that Neyland should be somewhere in [...]

Oh, The Vanity of It All

I admit it. I’ve done my fair share of vanity searches through the years. However, this evening marks the first time I’ve ever searched for my name on Google and found this website listed with sitelinks (see the screen shot in this post).
According to Google:
The links shown below some sites in our search results, called [...]

Help End Panhandling

Michael Haynes’ One-Year Plan To End Panhandling in Knoxville integrates nicely with the Mayor’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness. (HT: Knoxify) Update: Robert Finley over at the Mayor’s 10yr Plan Office blogs a response.

Using The WordPress Sandbox and The Blueprint CSS Framework Together

Lately, I’ve taken a liking to building WordPress themes using a combination of the WordPress Sandbox and the Blueprint CSS Framework. If you’re a designer who builds custom WordPress themes and you haven’t heard of either of these two masterpieces of code, an introduction is in order. Then, after you’ve met, I’ll show you how [...]

Knoxville Twitterers: Using the Web to Go Local

According to my “Twitter-stream”, my first “tweet” was on Wednesday, March 19 at 6:36pm when I mentioned my wife and I were going to grab dinner with her parents. Since that time, I’ve continued to add tweets about things I do in or out of the office. Other Twitterers have started “following” me, and I’ve [...]

Knoxville Twitter MeetUp

Uploaded by Michael Wender 9th April, 2008
Here’s a shot of 10 of the 13 12 who made it out to the Lakeside Tavern for what may have been the first meetup of Knoxville Twitter Users. Many thanks to Whodini for organizing.

Death by Blogging

This New York Times article comments on the recent deaths of two bloggers and speculates as to whether or not all the self-imposed stress and deadlines of successful blogging lead to poor health. (HT: Tim Challies)

HDR Rose Comp

Uploaded by Michael Wender 5th April, 2008
Here’s a comp of an HDR image I created of a rose. The three images I used are in the column on the right.

HDR Tulip

Uploaded by Michael Wender 3rd April, 2008
Today I went outside to photograph one of Beth’s tulips using a new technique that I’m learning: High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI). To get started, I read this tutorial and used some software called Picturenaut.