Archives: Geek

New year, new post, new technical difficulties

January 2, 2016 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek, PAS.

Hey, look at me! I meant for this post to kick off a new leaf. Or is it turning over a new leaf? Maybe I’m mixing metaphors, but I’m putting up new content. Aren’t you lucky to be reading it? As with anything left untouched for months – nay, years – there is bound to • Read More »

Tweets added

July 12, 2014 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek.

After trying and failing to add various Twitter widgets to the sidebar of the site, I finally was able to pull in my tweets using Twitter itself. No API nonsense, no consumer key, consumer secret – too complicated for what I thought should be a simple addition. Create a widget in your Twitter account and • Read More »

It’s been set free!

November 21, 2012 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek, PAS.

Free from Google’s dreaded “the site you are attempting to access has been infected with malware.” About a month ago my site was the victim of a drive-by code injection that put bad stuff on my site. Cue sound effect: Oh no! After being notified by my host, I tried removing WordPress themes that may • Read More »

Sightings

August 29, 2011 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek, PAS.

I finally figured out what to do with Google maps in order to put pins in a custom map. Over the years, I’ve been collecting e-mail messages from Schommer’s around the world and keeping them in a table. I knew you could customize maps, but I never had the time to do anything about it. • Read More »