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So I’ve already had a few mess ups with the scheduling of posts in WordPress, where I on accidentally schedule it for an odd time, or publish it immediately. So I’m trying to find a plugin to help me keep track of scheduled posts. I’ve found a plugin for my dashboard, so it shows what …

Tonight Joanna and I realized we had forgotten to take some chicken out to thaw from our freezer. So we decided to pick up some food from our favorite burger & yummy food place in South Ogden: Grideli’s. I highly recommend it to anyone looking grab something tasty to eat. During lunch, it is the …

I will be speaking this year at the Utah Open Source Conference this year. My presentation is “Real Life Scaling: A Tale of Two Websites.” Here is the abstract: Scaling is a real issue for many websites. However, many developers try to implement solutions used by the giants of the internet: Google, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, …

Doh! I meant to schedule this for Thursday, so oops! Already off my schedule, but oh well. These last few weeks my productivity seems to have been fluctuating, and it has been irritating. So I’ve decided over the next few weeks to keep track of how I work, see what works well and what doesn’t, …

I’ve decided as of Today, September 13th, 2009, I am going to try to publish a post a day. My reasoning is simple: I want to improve on my writing and proof reading skills. One can never be too good of a writer. I hope to achieve this by several ways. Smaller, Concise Entries I …

My dear friend Eric Ping pointed out I only had a few days left before I’d break my year and half record of posting at least every month. I was wondering what to write about, and last night I figured out what to write. Yesterday after going to dinner with Joanna, my wife, we went …

I got my new Google Wave Demo Account. It is very, very alpha, but the concept is pretty awesome. I saw a funny “wave” and thought I would share. Here is a list of Evolving Google Wave Terminology: Sea Sick When a wave is way too busy with activity, causing dizziness Wavejacking When you post …

*** Update: I gave a presentation at the Utah PHP Usergroup about memcached that went really well. Here are the slides I used: Effectice Caching w/ PHP + Caching View more presentations from Justin Carmony. Delayed, yet again, at the airport. Time to get this article written once and for all. This is a rough …

Just thought I’d advertise this a little. I’m going to this month’s Geek Lunch in Layton at Pad Thai. I’ve never actually been there before, but I’ve heard goo things. If you’re in the Layton area on Friday around 12:30 to 2:00, come have some Thai food! They are also having one in SLC and …

Today I just had the terrible experience of having a database lose data, need to restore, only to not have a recent backup. If you haven’t had this experience before, please, take this serious. My wife was home for lunch as it happened, and she watched as the blood drained from my face. It only …