Lennart Green, the foremost close-up card magician of the world, dazzled the audience of TED 2005. I caught the video today on my Zune and was thrilled. His show is very entertaining, quick witted, and his foreignness is close to my heart (Green is from Gothenburg, Sweden). The TED video is around [...]

I am imagining a better WordPress. For those of you who don’t know, it’s the engine behind Gradin.com, as well as countless other blogs on the Interweb. I have been using WordPress for several years now and I really enjoy it. Its many features have grown, and grown on me. Now [...]

I’ve just successfully completed my WordPress 2.3 update. As far as WordPress updates go, this was a pretty big one. So big, in fact, that I actually followed the instructions and disabled (most) of my plugins to be sure the site worked after the update. I knew however, that disabling my plugins [...]

I contribute to a few other blogs out there as I’m able, all of which are WordPress-based like this one. A seemingly simple function has been lacking in my mind, and the community seems to agree with me. But for some unknown reason, the answer has not been produced until now.
My first WordPress [...]

For all of you that have asked, here’s a link on how you make Adobe’s Reader 7.0 load faster:
Jonathan Hardwick: How to make Adobe Reader 7.0 load faster
He’s a done an excellent job of explaining the process, but I’ll summarize for you here.
Adobe Reader 7.0 Optimizer

Edit –> Preferences

General: Disable “Automatically save document changes”
Internet: Disable everything
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