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Happy Monday Yinz

What a big week this will be, World Cup 2010, Refresh Pittsburgh Presentation, WordPress 3.0 is supposed to launch, I’m waiting eagerly to announce a major change to my Magic blogging, and Yinz Team Softball is off to it’s second week. In addition to all that excitement tomorrow we are presenting a special gift to [...]
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WordPress 3.0

Thursday, June 17 I will be speaking at Refresh Pittsburgh on WordPress 3.0. Currently they are about to release the “RC3″ (release candidate 3) and the final version is scheduled to drop on June 14. Just in time for the meeting. Currently I’m running multiple WP 3.0 prerelease versions and at Refresh I’ll review some [...]
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Posting from iPad

Over the past few weeks I’ve been thinking that an iPad would be really useful. Not so much for me but rather my mother, someone who really doesn’t need a computer. She doesn’t need a full computer because all she really uses it for is email, web browsing, and probably limited word processing. While home [...]
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Keeping Connected

Post I wrote for the PodCamp Pittsbugh website. The PodCamp Spirit It is that time of year again when we kick PodCamp Pittsburgh planning in to high gear. This week I’m getting a few of the logistical details in order, like the date of the event, and other Art Institute related details. To get me [...]
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Busy Weekend

I’m still working on bringing you my WordPress 3.0 Beta review. It is still running smoothly on huelsman.org and I have only run into one glitch. Updating photos on sub domain blogs has a bug but I expect it will be addressed in the final build if it hasn’t been already. I haven’t been updating [...]
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Art Drinkers Anonymous

Join me and others at Easy Street on May 7th for happy hour.
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What’s an RSS Feed?

In the fall, post PodCamp Pittsburgh, I was feeling the urge to give back to The Art Institute and teach my coworkers about RSS, web 2.0, and Google Tools. My goal was get everyone familiar with a web page and teach them how to take advantage of RSS. Here are my slides, I called the [...]
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A Few Good Bands

This week I’ve been on a search to find the perfect band. Not for me, but for The Art Institute of Pittsburgh’s Summer Studio. Each  year we hold a Summer Studio that is basically like summer camp for aspiring artists. They take classes that will eventually give them a head start on their college career. [...]
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WordPress 3.0 Beta

Last week I installed WordPress 3.o Beta on a new space for my family. We have been using a WP.com site for about two years and everything is running smoothly. I know, I know it wasn’t broke but I still decided to fix it. The reason is my sister is going to Uganda this summer [...]
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Dungeon Solitaire

A little while back I was contacted by @Dungeon_Sol on twitter asking me to check out their new iPhone game Dungeon Solitaire. I obliged and wrote a review about it on Casual Magic. For those of you who don’t know Dungeon Solitaire is a digital card game where you must pit heroes and monsters against [...]
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