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A Brush With Greatness – Stephen Hawking and Me?

BJ — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:45:32 +0000

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.

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Fixed Admin Menus — The Plugin Condensed

BJ — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:46:45 +0000

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

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The Blown Glass Space Collection

BJ — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:53:15 +0000

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

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Tags: art and science, astronomy, gifts, greeting cards, holiday, jewelry, necklace, ornaments, planet, rocket, steampunk, wine stoppers

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Fixed Admin Menus — The Plugin Enhanced

BJ — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:09:13 +0000

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

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45 Backers Helped Themselves to Some Great Art

BJ — Thu, 05 May 2011 02:25:35 +0000

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

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Tags: education, exhibit, funding, marketing

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Help a Starving Artist and Help Yourself

BJ — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:21:42 +0000

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

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Fixed Admin Menus — The Plugin Expanded

BJ — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:55:25 +0000

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

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Fixed Admin Menus — The Plugin

BJ — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:49:17 +0000

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

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WordPress 3.1 Admin Menus — Fixed!

BJ — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:58:33 +0000

Admin Menus Fixed — THe HaCk

Not that they were necessarily broken... well, there is room for improvement, but I mean "fixed" in the sense of the word meaning not moving. I have long used a most excellent plugin designed to make WordPress Admin's lives easier by consolidating the backend Admin Menu that normally runs down a column on the left side of the

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Your Own Personal Time Machine

BJ — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:45:11 +0000

Keeping with the Time Travel theme, here's a really cool philosophical exercise that I have often posed to colleagues and friends over the years. It tells you a lot about yourself; especially, like any good broth, after you have let it simmer for a while:

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