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Rollercoaster Tycoon – Lil’ Night Fury

I decided to get a little creative tonight with one of my old favorite PC games Rollercoaster Tycoon. There is something special about that game. I return to it often when I’m stressed. Recently we watched “How to Train Your Dragon.” The star dragon of the movie of course is “Toothless” a night fury dragon. [...]

WordCamp Louisville

I’ve been using WordPress blogging platform for over a year now. I’ve been extremely impressed with the ease of use and plugablity. I’ve also taken part in writing a few plugins for WordPress. Now I think I’m ready to take the next step and attend WordCamp. WordCamp is a convention so to speak for those [...]

Speed Limit Signs – Min/Max

We’ve been on vacation this week and I’ve found something new to rant about. In our travels through Florida and Georgia we’ve discovered that speed limit signs in Florida separate the minimum and maximum signs. These signs are often miles apart on the interstates throughout the state of Georgia and Florida. At one point I [...]

Mozilla Drumbeat: Universal Subtitles

Universal Subtitles A group of developers on a Mozilla Drumbeat project is working to provide a way add subtitles to online videos. I am extremely excited that this will open new doors for the deaf and hard of hearing. Being a hard of hearing person myself, I find it hard to understand what is being said [...]

Flash Games: Cargo Bridge

Online Physics Games This weekend I discovered another one of those, ‘Suck the life out of you’ flash games. You know the ones where ya sit down, play and don’t realize it’s been a few hours. This one is called Cargo Bridge. It’s a construction flash game where you design/build a bridge to complete task(s). Sounds [...]

Save Money with Playstation 2 to Playstation 3 Adapters

This weekend, our friends rented the game Little Big Planet for the Playstation 3. It was a blast. I’m usually not real big into platform games, but I loved it! The game supports up to four players playing on 3 different platform planes all at once. Your characters are all little sack-boys that can be [...]

Self Made Tools: Proportional Image Resizer

I’ve decided to create a new segment on my site called “Self Made Tools.” From time to time, I make software tools to help me through tasks that I can’t find tools for quickly. I’ve decided to really jump on the Open Source movement bandwagon and share my tools with source. This week’s tool is [...]

CafePress Ad Rotator – WordPress Plugin

Contributors: Matt Kendrick Tags: cafepress, t-shirts, ad, display Requires at least: 2.6 Tested up to: 2.9.2 Stable tag: .85 This plugin adds a widget that displays random items from your CafePress.com store. Requires cURL and a CafePress API Key. == Description == This plugin adds a widget that displays random items from your CafePress.com store. The display uses the 150px X 150px [...]

Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not the best at doing my own web graphics in Photoshop. With input from other people, I do very well. But I’m not very creative when it comes doing my own web graphics. I think I have the skills to do the work, just not the creativity. This [...]

Tweet My Script Plugin for WordPress

About: This plugin watches your Twitter RSS Feed for user-defined “launch codes” to trigger user-defined script URLs. Have you ever needed a script or task run on your blog and you were not near a computer with internet access? Well look no further than “Tweet My Script.” This plugin allows you to simply use your cell-phone [...]