Super Ginormous

02.08.2012

Tersus Development

Over the next few weeks, the design of this site is going to evolve. I’m work­ing on the first of sev­eral child themes for Ter­sus. Our orig­i­nal plan was to include sev­eral “fla­vors” but they did too much and limit oth­ers and their abil­ity to build on top of what we’ve done. If you have any feed­back on how you’d like to see things built out, by all means leave feed­back here or chime in on Github.

• Author:

  Chris Harrison

• Tags:

  • tersustheme

• Categories:

  • Wordpress

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02.03.2012

One Year Later

What a dif­fer­ence a year makes…

• Author:

  Chris Harrison

• Tags:

  • health
  • weightloss
  • WLS

• Categories:

  • Personal

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Drop­Press. Add pho­tos to a Drop­box folder and have them automag­i­cally appear as a post on your Word­Press site.

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Use the web ver­sion of Twit­ter? Annoyed by Twitter’s usage of t.co short urls? You need this Safari/Chrome exten­sion: Detox

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01.10.2012

SOPA Breaks the Internet

Politi­cians shouldn’t be allowed to leg­is­late that which they do not under­stand. I’m all for copy­right pro­tec­tion, but SOPA is too far-reaching. In a nut­shell, big com­pa­nies will be able to cen­sor any­thing they feel vio­lates their copyright.

Tell Con­gress not to cen­sor the inter­net NOW! - fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been intro­duced in the Sen­ate and the House and is mov­ing quickly through Con­gress. It gives the gov­ern­ment and cor­po­ra­tions the abil­ity to cen­sor the net, in the name of pro­tect­ing “cre­ativ­ity”. The law would let the gov­ern­ment or cor­po­ra­tions cen­sor entire sites– they just have to con­vince a judge that the site is “ded­i­cated to copy­right infringement.”

The gov­ern­ment has already wrongly shut down sites with­out any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, shar­ing a video with any­thing copy­righted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twit­ter do, would be con­sid­ered ille­gal behav­ior accord­ing to this bill.

Accord­ing to the Con­gres­sional Bud­get Office, this bill would cost us $47 mil­lion tax dol­lars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, dis­rupts the inter­net, sti­fles inno­va­tion, shuts out diverse voices, and cen­sors the inter­net. This bill is bad for cre­ativ­ity and does not pro­tect your rights.

This peti­tion on We the Peo­ple: Your Voice in Our Gov­ern­ment, nearly 50,000 peo­ple have signed a peti­tion ask­ing our Pres­i­dent to VETO the SOPA bill and any other future bills that threaten to dimin­ish the free flow of infor­ma­tion. Peo­ple that work on the web have prob­a­bly been more vocal about this issue than most, but this will impact any­one who uses the web in the United States should it pass.

• Author:

  Chris Harrison

• Categories:

  • Web Development

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The $40 Standup Desk. I really want to build one of these for my home office.

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01.09.2012

Dwelling on the past

Dwelling on the past dis­tracts you from the present. 2011 was a good year for me, but I strug­gled per­son­ally and pro­fes­sion­ally with a num­ber of things. Rather than rehash it all, I’ve real­ized that I need to learn from those expe­ri­ences, try my damnedest not to repeat the mis­takes that were made and head full steam into 2012.

To help me, I’ve set some attain­able, pro­fes­sional goals.

• Tweet less.
• Blog more. Expect at least one blog post a week.
• Cre­ate more. Expect at least one post to dribb­ble a week.
• Build some­thing I’m proud of.
• Spend an hour a day learning/improving my skills.
• Set real­is­tic dead­lines and expec­ta­tions before start­ing any project.

What are you going to do to make 2012 bet­ter than 2011?

• Author:

  Chris Harrison

• Categories:

  • Personal

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12.22.2011

Good web design…

“Good web design is about the char­ac­ter of the con­tent, not the char­ac­ter of the designer.”

Jef­frey Zeldman

• Author:

  Chris Harrison

• Categories:

  • Other

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GuideGuide is a handy exten­sion for mak­ing guides in Pho­to­shop. Works in Pho­to­shop CS4+.

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I’m attend­ing Word­Camp Atlanta. Hope to see you there!

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