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I’ve changed OpenID plugins; Enabled Gravatars.

June 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’m now using the awesome WP-OpenID for OpenID authentication in the comments. Also, Gravatars are enabled.
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Los Angeles Urban League Event Board

April 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

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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Los Angeles Urban League Job Board

March 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Split First and Last Name into Seperate Columns in Excel.

February 7th, 2008 · Comments Off

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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Getting Flash to Work with Ubuntu 7.10

January 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

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

December 16th, 2007 · Comments Off

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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Flopshow

October 10th, 2007 · Comments Off

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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Using Facebook and LinkedIn for your career

September 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

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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A nice list of non-profit web tools

September 16th, 2007 · Comments Off

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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Blogging Scholarships

September 5th, 2007 · Comments Off

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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