Willis Whitlock on August 23rd, 2008

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Complaining about gas prices seems to be our national obsession. Justin Danhoff offers a little context to our misery in the Aug. 7 Christian Science Monitor commentary Congress’s Unsound Fury Over Big Oil.
With this summer’s high gas prices, Americans are trading in their traditional vacations for “staycations” – vacations much [...]

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Willis Whitlock on August 19th, 2008

Saturday’s Word Camp proved to be a good one. I learned a lot of things about WordPress and a lot about blogging. I got some inspiration, some great BBQ, and WP swag.
Perhaps best of all, I got to spend the weekend with son 3. He’s in SF studying programming and music. He lives with a [...]

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Willis Whitlock on August 18th, 2008

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My daughter-in-law’s family has a useful question they ask when a family member gets a little too negative. It doesn’t make a lot of sense without the back story. So here it is:
A man get’s a flat tire on his car. He’s out in farm country, not many houses. It’s getting dark [...]

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Willis Whitlock on August 13th, 2008

I’m pretty excited to be going to San Francisco this weekend. They have these WordCamp get togethers at various places around the world. This one looks to be one of the better ones.
Matt Mullenweg, the original progammer of WordPress will be there with a host of WordPress glitterati. Bloggers and developers together for a day. [...]

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Willis Whitlock on August 7th, 2008

My blog dashboard says,
Most users ever online were 27, on August 7, 2008 @ 3:43 am
Now I’m wondering what I wrote to get 27 users, let alone all at one time. It must be my sparkling personality, my well written prose, my….
What’s that you say? Bots?
How could that many bots congregate on my server all [...]

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Willis Whitlock on August 3rd, 2008

Earning the Eagle Scout rank is the only thing you can list on your resume at 50 that you did when you where 14. -Randy Pausch, the Last Lecture.
Scott Hudson of Belleville, IL took a little longer than most. But with perseverance and a great mom, he became an Eagle Scout last Sunday, at age [...]

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