written 25 Jun 2010 in the earliest morning
Firebug is like a baby made of candy. If you don’t get that analogy, no one will blame you but best not to bring it up around the hitching post, water cooler or back of the garbage truck, wherever you take your particular daily break. Suffice to say, this little plugin developed for Firefox is like having a twin brother who will go to school for you, do all of your homework, sit in the waiting room until the doctor is ready to see you and let you take his girlfriend home after he did all of the wining and dining.
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written 23 Jun 2010 in the early afternoon
I rent a lot of cars. I do these because I don’t own a car, well, I own a VW Bus but it’s really more of a house and it’s top speed is 55mph, and while I’ve driven it from Colorado to California to Colorado again to Arizona to Texas and back across Texas and back again and then to Florida and then to North Carolina, all before driving it to Michigan and then Pennsylvania and then to New York and back to Pennsylvania, sometimes I need to get somewhere fast or need to get somewhere while the Bus is broken down or maybe my girlfriend just feels like needing air conditioning for whatever reason. Anyway, I rent a lot of cars.
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written 23 Jun 2010 in the earliest morning
I jumped on the Firefox train as quickly as any other up and coming computer nerd Web Designer hopeful way back in the turn of November, 2004. How wonderful were those days? Blogging was cool, Google didn’t have a sidebar and when I went to the bar with my friends, no one sat on their phone showing me how great the latest app that tracked everything you do everywhere you go was the whole time.
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written 16 Jun 2010 while the school buses headed home
The City of Pittsburgh has changed rather remarkably over the past few years. It’s reputation, as outdated as it was even 10 years ago, for being smoke and black skies, a dying link in the rust belt, has given way to numerous internationally recognized environmental events and the G8. Bike lanes and more and more parks and paths line the streets every month. Young people from around the country are beginning to recognize it’s importance as a cultural hub, somewhere you can go right now and be a part of the change, not just show up when it’s all said and done and reap the benefits. In the arena of Web Design, it’s no different. Just three years ago the city was primarily dominated by both freelancers and big companies alike using outdated methods of building websites, and not just the antiquated means of slapping tables inside of tables, but some who literally used Photoshop’s Save for Web… interface to create sites.
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written 14 Jun 2010 in the early afternoon
I’m sure there are a hundred and fifty of these articles out there listing 10 Best Plugins to Make WP a CMS and 100 (+3) Best WordPress Plugins for Content Management, etc., but I’m writing this article anyway. Why? You asked, or at least read me writing that you’d asked, so I’ll tell you. There aren’t 10 essential plugins for turning WP into a CMS, it’s pretty much already there, regardless of it’s official status as a blogging platform or not. It manages content, it’s a content management system. That said…
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written 11 Jun 2010 in the earliest morning
Or rather, a few funny things:
- For some inexplicable reason, people are willing to pay thousands of dollars for you based on the design of your site, but feel the need to clarify that the orange you’re using is two shades off.
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written 5 Jun 2010 either awfully late or awful early
Catchy subject, I know, and completely irrelevant. I’ve just been sitting here thinking of a title for this little ditty I’m going to call my only third post of the year and that one seemed too bouncy to push aside. Now that the hilarity has ensued, let me dive into the post at 20 past the 4th hour after high noon.
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written 1 Jun 2010 either awfully late or awful early
I was recently approached by an old tire, well, some might say a “yet to be newly used” tire, but I just call him Hogarth. The transaction went as follows:
Tire: So, you’re well known for many things, but not too many actually. What can you tell me about yourself?
Nathan:: Hmmm. Aside from the obvious, male human life form, Earth-born and rippling armpit hairs, there’s not a whole lot to me, I guess.
T: You’ve lived in an RV for the past year or so. What have you learned from that experience?
N: Cheaper is not always better. Faster is rarely better. Two lane highways are excellent.
T: Before you lived in an RV, I’m assuming you were still alive. What could you tell me about that experience?
N: I find that in life there is almost no end to the amount of breathing one must do. If you think about all the time you spend breathing, you’ll realize that about 99.9% of your life seems to be wasted on this one activity. Luckily, we’ve adapted to multitasking. For example, I’ve learned that you can breathe and type 113wpm at a time. No less, no more.
T: Okay and finally, where is the best?
N: Place? Where’s the best place?
T: Yes, definitively.
N: Wherever there is a nearly unlimited supply of any three of the following: beers, cigarettes, friends, fires, starlit wildernesses, rivers and rafts.
T: Thank you for your time, it’s been a pleasure.
N: The pleasure was all yours, I assure you.
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written 11 May 2010 some time after midnight
So as you may be able to see if you come on out of your reader, there’s a new and hopefully improved design here at ClickNathan.com. Still a little paisley, still as funky as ever but updated for the 10′s.
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written 11 May 2010 some time after midnight
I can see it as clear as the sunspots on my dirty windshield while headed into dusk. It’s a looming ever-presence and I’m proud to call it my own, the desire for tomorrow. I don’t understand it and I can barely feed it enough today to keep me full on it through the weekend, but it’s there and it’s itchy in my belly like a beer keg full of butterflies with the tap on open.
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