Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Facebook’s Eroding Privacy

A recent New York Times article about Facebook’s ridiculous privacy policy and settings got me to take 15 minutes and lockdown my privacy settings. In the past I’ve taken the time to review my privacy settings but Facebook doesn’t make it easy to find all the settings. The NYTimes article, found here, has a precise site map [...]

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Kindle Birthday Surprise

My wife surprised me with a Kindle for my birthday. This could get expensive. Amazon makes it way to easy to buy books! Share and Enjoy:

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Posterous Test

Posterous Test Post to my blog and other sites. Posted via web from Patrick Talmadge’s posterous Share and Enjoy:

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WordPress Updated

I finished the lastest WordPress upgrade. It was a bit of a pain because I had to update MySQL before I could upgrade WordPress. But, now everything is up to date. Share and Enjoy:

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Added Mobile Device Compatibility

I just enabled WPTouch on PatrickTalmadge.com. WPTouch provides optimized formatting for the iPhone and other mobile devices. I figured now that nearly everyone I know has a smartphone my site should be optimized for mobile phones. WPTouch is extremely easy to use and has tons of customization. I see no reason that I will remove [...]

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Word Press Updates

In the past I’ve tried WordPress’s automatic update and was never able to get it to work. But the last two WordPress updates have gone flawlessly using the automatic update. You can’t beat WordPress’s features and functionality for the low low price of free. Hopefully automatic update will continue to work and simplify my update [...]

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Added a Pictures Page

I added the new page because I had to remove my Picasa sidebar widget so the iPhone WordPress app would work. The page has a random thumbnail of one of the pictures from each of the photo albums I have hosted on Picasa. You can find the new page in the main navigation menu or [...]

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My iPhone Apps

I’ve had my phone for a little while now. After trying out a bunch of free apps and games, I’ve found that a lot suck, some are ok, very few apps are any good. So far I’ve only looked at free apps and games because I haven’t seen thing that make me want to open my wallet. [...]

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WordPress iPhone App Test

I finally got the WordPress iPhone app working. I had to disable two of my widgets (follow me and picasa). I’m not sure why the app wouldn’t work with those widgets running. Something new I need to look into. So far the app seems cool. Not sure how much I will use it. It’s hard [...]

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2009 New Year’s Resolutions – Second Quarter Update

In March I did a 2009 first quarter update of the progress of my New Year’s Resolutions. In that post I said I would do a progress update every quarter. June means it’s time for a second quarter update for 2009. My second quarter progress for my 2009 New Year’s Resolutions is below. Read at least book a week I have read/listened to [...]

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