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Crazy Stuff to Do with Kids – No Attention Span, Mental Stimulation Fix

Crazy Stuff to Do with Kids – No Attention Span, Mental Stimulation Fix 0

I have no attention span – this makes me an awesome parent! I’m good with puzzles – those hold me attention, anything that’s a challenge – that holds me attention – Perfect Programmer Mentality. But this means that my mind is always looking for it’s next stimulation fix. I’ve started documenting our Stimulation Fixes in [...]

How To: Menu Buttons + Atahualpa + Quick & Dirty

How To: Menu Buttons + Atahualpa + Quick & Dirty 0

This is how to setup and install buttons into the Atahualpa WordPress Theme – which just for the record: I hate that stupid theme! Here are the rules: 1) If you use this technique you are REQUIRED to post a comment telling me just how cool I am. 2) In that comment you are REQUIRED [...]

Rules for Surviving Triberr #triberr

Rules for Surviving Triberr #triberr 5

My introduction to Triberr was an email from a friend that read “Please join Triberr so I can inbreed. You can quit after.” So I joined expecting to stay until my friend could inbreed and then she left! I’ve been in and out of tribes and each has had it’s own rules it governed by. [...]

The Least You Should Know – Me, Websites, Marketing, Hosting, Domains, Branding

The Least You Should Know – Me, Websites, Marketing, Hosting, Domains, Branding 0

This is Not me. Web Developers/Coders wear jeans and t-shirts even to meetings with the most important clients. If we’re not comfortable, we’re not creative. And quite frankly would you really want this person working on your website? I don’t see a tissue, pocket protector or antihistamine anywhere in the image – what kind of [...]

How to Find & Fix the DNS Malware Virus – BEFORE July

How to Find & Fix the DNS Malware Virus – BEFORE July 2

According to the FBI ….. Hackers infected a network of more than 570,000 computers worldwide. The malicious software changed the way computers interpret and render website addresses behind the scenes on the Internet’s domain name system. Most victims don’t even know their computers have been infected. DNS Malware Virus may have slowed victims web surfing [...]

Last Mason Jar Light Project – I Promise

Last Mason Jar Light Project – I Promise 0

This is the VERY LAST Mason Jar light

Summer Camp Project [great for even preschoolers]

Summer Camp Project [great for even preschoolers] 0

This is great for Preschoolers, Summer Camps and for those rainy days when you’re UpTa Camp. The mini mason jaw I got at Family Dollar for a buck! The lights came 2 in a pack for $3. Glow Sticks were a 15 pack for $0.50 the week after Halloween. And I’d like to give a [...]

Solar & Recycle School Project [Quick.Cheap.Cool]

Solar & Recycle School Project [Quick.Cheap.Cool] 0

Just like the Mason Jars, but I used a very small solar light. This is great for a ‘recycle project’ at school. Combine solar and recycling – You can’t go wrong!

Sex in the Title and 6 other Simple ways to Generate Traffic

Sex in the Title and 6 other Simple ways to Generate Traffic 5

Lately I’ve been more of a traffic magnet. I’ve read all the “How to get all the traffic you want in 7 seconds blah, blah, blah” articles out there and I’ve tested quite a few theories, these 7 worked best. 1) How To’s It’s hard to go wrong with a useful ‘How To’ post. Recently [...]

Quick Cheap Mother’s Day Gift (For School, Troops, Kids 2 – 102 y/o age)

Quick Cheap Mother’s Day Gift (For School, Troops, Kids 2 – 102 y/o age) 1

Grab a 16 oz pickle jar. Wash it, get the glue off, dry it, turn it upside down and paint it! For smaller children, use stickers on the outside of the jar. Separate the top and bottom of the Solar Garden Light and remove the tag that keeps it from running, but put it back [...]

How to get NeuroProtek into a Toddler

How to get NeuroProtek into a Toddler 0

Here it is nearing the end of April and I haven’t written an “Autism Awareness” post. In our home we’re attempting to become far less aware of Autism – sound harsh? Try living with it for a few years, you’ll start thinking of April as “Defeat Autism Now Month” – which is more on topic [...]

How to get Glue Off Glass, Plastic, Wood …….. (organic)

How to get Glue Off Glass, Plastic, Wood …….. (organic) 4

It’s Vegetable Oil!! (obviously test surface first.) OMGosh! I’m in the middle of writing a post called “Make a Nightlight Out of a Pickle Jar” and I can’t get the freak’n glue off the pickle jar. I ‘Googled’ “How to get glue off glass” and the response was overwhelmingly WD40 – well how the heck [...]

Drupal v. WordPress v. Joomla – Revealed

Drupal v. WordPress v. Joomla – Revealed 1

Two things I must point out before I start. 1) If you haven’t figured it out before now, there are 2 different versions of WordPress. There is WordPress.COM which is the fake type free blog, that doesn’t give you a lot of freedom. Next there is WordPress.ORG is a FREE Content Management System used to [...]

Domains 101 – Your very first decision

Domains 101 – Your very first decision 1

My first question for a potential client is “Have you purchased a domain or do you know the domain you want?” Much of the time I get this response “Yes. I‘m going with Chalchiuhticue.com or Clytemnistra.com [normally something I cannot say, much less fathom] it‘s the name of a mythical princess. Don‘t you just love [...]