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Wallpapers

2010-10-15T23:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some cool wallpapers.

Bacon Pancake

2010-10-09T18:45:00.000-07:00

Just writing about this makes me hungry.
Cook some bacon, after letting it cook for awhile,
Pour some pancake batter over it, flip it,

ENJOY!

MUST TRY THIS!

2010-10-08T23:29:00.000-07:00

This is soooo good.
1. Boil Ramon
2. Drain
3.Mix three eggs and flavour packet, also add other flavorings E.G. milk, cheese, butter.
4. Preheat pan with some oil.
5. Add cooked noodles and egg mix
6. Let cook.
7. EAT!

Improve your writing with clever formatting

2010-10-08T17:19:00.001-07:00

One of the age-old writing principles is to write less. Detail is fine, clutter is not. But we like to fill up space. We’re compelled to fill blank pages with content, even if it dilutes what we’re saying.

To combat this tendency increase the size of the text you write with and give yourself less space to fill.

Within TextMate, for example I write with size 14 text and have it so the text wraps after 78 characters. This means that even a small paragraph fills up plenty of space, satisfying my ego while deflating the word count.

Edit blog posts with any text editor

2010-10-08T17:18:00.001-07:00

Text editors are the perfect writing environment. They allow you to focus on what truly matters ‘the writing’ and aren’t bogged down with cumbersome controls that encourage fiddling rather than effectiveness.

Wouldn’t it be great to write and edit blog posts within a text editor? Sure, you can copy and paste text into WordPress, but what if there was a better solution?

All it takes is the ability to edit text fields (like WordPress’ HTML view) using your text editor of choice. Any Cocoa-based browser (like Safari) should allow this by default, but if you’re like the majority of web workers who use Firefox then install the It’s All Text! extension. Setup a hot key and KA-BLAM you’re able to edit any text field you wish with a text editor.

When writing with Markdown this trick lets me combine TextMate’s syntax highlighting with WordPress’ automatic save system. It’s the best of both worlds.

Write with Markdown

2010-10-08T17:17:00.000-07:00

Writing for the web isn’t all sunshine and lollipops. There’s the ugly necessity of writing out HTML which, while not in any way difficult, makes your writing less readable during the editing process.

Markdown is the answer and the best way to explain Markdown is to show you what it does.

Let’s look at a standard HTML tag: <strong>Bold text goes here</strong> and now the Markdown equivalent: **Bold text goes here**. Doesn’t that look much nicer?

Every common HTML tag has a Markdown equivalent, allowing for improved readability while writing. On a small scale you may not notice much of an improvement, but click here to see a screenshot of this article written in Markdown.

For use with Wordpress, install the Markdown for WordPress plugin, which converts the syntax to HTML for your reader but maintains the original syntax for editing.

There’s the added advantage that writing Markdown syntax is quicker than writing out HTML and, in combination with TextExpander (more on this in a second) the time spent formatting your posts will be cut down to seconds.

Did That Just Happen?

2010-10-08T12:44:00.000-07:00

Victoria Salmon Kings TSN Highlight of the Night.
Highlight of the Year in my opinion.

Calgery vs Oilers

2010-10-07T23:46:00.000-07:00

Are the Oilers good this season or does Calgary just suck?
4-0 Oilers, Eberle scored two goals.

Also, good fight, KO punch.