Chess Game Viewer Wordpress Plugin
Last week I quietly released my second chess plugin for Wordpress and I wanted to make a quick post to tell you a little about it. You may remember I tested out a plugin a while back that allowed you to display chess games in your Wordpress posts. While that plugin worked okay, I wasn't impressed and was looking for a way to customize the chess board interface. Unfortunately there wasn't a Wordpress plugin like that available so I decided to make one myself. I found a great open source... [Continue Reading]
Ideas on How Not to Screw Your Customers
I thought you might be entertained by the following exchange I had with a company called CodeWeavers. They produce a product called Crossover which lets you run some Windows apps on a Mac. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that Crossover for Mac sucks, but I wouldn’t put it in the same category [...]
Introducing a Chess Puzzle Widget for Wordpress
My love of chess and Wordpress has collided over the last couple weeks and the result has been a breakthrough in geeky output. Apologies in advance! Anyway, I was surprised that there are only a few chess plugins for Wordpress and one thing led to another and you know how it goes…
The first product I [...]
Chess Plugins for Wordpress
I have been playing chess online a bit more lately and have been looking for ways to incorporate chess into my blog a bit more. I don’t know what form that will take, but one of the things I have been experimenting with is a Wordpress plugin called “Chess by Blog.” This Wordpress Plugin allows you to paste a chess game in PGN format into your web posts. For example, the game below shows a game I played last week.
Download Broken Bells New Album
Broken Bells
There are a few bands that I am fanatical about. A quick look at my last.fm charts shows these bands to be Iron & Wine, Eels, Simon & Garfunkel, The Shins, and Ben Folds. When it comes to these musicians I will buy every track they put out, I will see them in concert, I [...]
The Secret Weapon of Good Writers
I have been writing regularly since 2004 and while I am not completely comfortable with calling myself a “writer,” it is something that I aspire to become. Today I was inadvertently paid a complement by an editor who told me, “Your style is a bit different than what we do. Your writing is a bit [...]
Portrait of Genius 2: R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller
In 1927, Richard was a suicidal drunk without a job. He was bankrupt and living in the slums of Chicago. He had been expelled from Harvard twice for bad behavior. The business he started with his father had failed. His daughter died after struggling with complications from polio and spinal meningitis. To say [...]
