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This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact Justin Cook (justincook [ at ] gmail.com. (more…)

Well I just upgraded to Firefox 2.0. It's great, I love it, lots of wonderful features. However, much to my chagrin, I have just discovered that I can no longer work in Google Spreadsheets!

It must be a new security feature that's causing the issue, but I can't edit any cells. I can only copy and paste, or use the buttons to change content. And then when I do, it says "updating…" forever, doesn't show the update, but then if I close it and re-open, the update has been made.

Anyone else experiencing this?

When creating categories in WordPress, you can enter a description. The description field is plain text, but you can enter HTML. However, by default, WordPress doesn't even display the description when you're browsing the category!

This little bit of PHP code will override that. If your template has only one index.php that handles all page request, edit that. Otherwise, if there's an archive.php, edit that instead.

About a year or so ago I had to help someone source a POS (Point of Sale) solution for a brew-on-premise wine shop. We evaluated several that we found at download.com, and eventually settled on a $150 piece of software. (more…)

I've completely redesigned my blog template. I had 2.5 hours to kill yesterday afternnon while waiting for my wife to meet me downtown after work for sushi. So I fired up FireWorks, looked around for a palette I like, and voila!, here are the results!

Let me know what you think of it, and if you'd like me to make it available for public download. It's not a perfect template, some things (e.g. the title is an image, not text) have been hacked to suit this site or to make it more Search Engine Friendly.