Allen Lew’s Thoughts

I’m now using the awesome WP-OpenID for OpenID authentication in the comments. Also, Gravatars are enabled.
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In a similar vain to the Job Board I built for the LA Urban League, I created an event board using Wordpress. The main plugins I’ve used are the Event Calendar for the event information and the Geopress plugin for locations.
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Inspired by Recruitpress, a job board made with Wordpress and a couple of packaged plugins, I’ve just deployed a job board for the Los Angeles Urban League. Basically, I’ve replaced the Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress, used to apply for this job section of each job post, with the cforms plugin, which I [...]

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If you have a First Name and Last Name in one column in Excel, here’s a tutorial on splitting them into two separate columns (without VB macros) from LauraJ’s blog. It involves using the Data to Text feature. Very handy.
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If you haven’t been able to install Adobe Flash Player on your Ubuntu 7.10 install, Jayson Joseph Chacko wrote an excellent post with a set of terminal commands to get Adobe Flash installed. Thanks Jayson.
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Joe Biden’s Wordpress blog got hacked with spam links on the footer. Al Gore was similarly hacked a while ago as well.
(via Mark Jaquith)
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In case you have some old floppy disks around and can’t get the files out, try out FlopShow. It’s a free and simple floppy disk restore program.
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Quick Sprout has some tips on using Facebook to help your career. Reminds me of Guy Kawasaki’s posts on using LinkedIn like 10 ways to use LinkedIn and his LinkedIn Profile Extreme Makeover. (via Lifehacker)
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Read/Write Web has a terrific list of non-profit web tools. This goes along great with some of the previous guides I’ve linked (see “How we set up a non-profit by the seat of our pants” and Startup Guides).
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Collegescholarships.org is offering a $10,000 scholarship for college bloggers. Like almost everything I see nowadays, I wonder why they didn’t have this when I was in college and was still writing Calstuff (via Read/WriteWeb).
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