So, you’ve got a wordpress blog. And a wordpress homepage cluttered with the full articles displaying. Using the_excerpt instead of the_content in your template is one way to go, but what if you don’t want to edit your templates? And what if you don’t want to edit all your articles to fill in the area [...]

A few selections from my series of watercolor paintings titled “November”. Click the image to view a larger version of the print.

1. In Outlook, click File | Data File Management 2. Click the Add button 3. Click Ok

If your a newbie to Linux, check out this free pocket guide. Useful tips and great info on how to get in a Linux state of mind with the Ubuntu distribution. If you’re wanting to try Linux, I highly recommend Ubuntu as a distro.  It’s interface is clean, windows-like, and with pre-built packages designed to [...]

So, you want to install Picasa software for your Linux / Debian system? Easy enough, we just have to add the repository and the software key info to our package manager. Ok, fetch a snack, we’re gonna go back into the command line! Within Debian or other Linux system, open a Terminal Window in Super [...]

Had a chance this past Sunday afternoon to tour a bit of the Des Moines Art Center. Tucked away on a lonely corner of Grand Ave on the west side of downtown Des Moines, I was impressed with the initial exhibition I toured. There were many exhibits I have yet to explore and wanted to [...]

I was a volunteer last night at the Civic Music Association‘s presentation of John Pizzarelli at the Sheslow Auditorium on the campus of Drake University, downtown Des Moines. Check out some of John’s groovy swing sound, soft vocals and lose your mind guitar playing with the links below to YouTube videos: After You’ve Gone – [...]

Close Gimp if it’s running. Download your favorite Gimp scripts from The Gimp Plug-in Registry. Right click the download link(s) and choose “Save as…” Save the file to your scripts folder. If you’re not sure where your scripts folder is, you can find that by opening GIMP and going to File | Preferences | Folders [...]

Note: I updated this article for the Lenny distro. I’m using the source repositories in the US. Here is the most basic, stable sources.list that I’m using for Linux Debian the Lenny distro on my laptop. I edit this file by going to a Terminal as SuperUser and entering the command: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list This [...]

There is a pesky display bug that will render a “peek-a-boo” effect when you layer div containers in CSS. When this bug is at it’s best, content that should stream after a previous div container, instead partially hides behind it. This is how my home page displays without the position: relative in the post div [...]