I was digging through my pictures folder, and I came across some pictures I took back in '09 when I went to the Field Museum. Some of them are kind of neat, so I figured I would post them here. Don't take this as any sort of sign that I'm running out of content to post here....
Welcome to version 0.4 ("Defiant") of DenyConformity.com. This new version adds the ability to browse the site with tags. Use the "Tags" button at the top of the site to see all of the tags associated with posts on the site.
There's no new post today. Sorry about that. I'm taking a day (or two, we'll see) to finally get some new features working - and also to try to clear up some bugs. If you've spotted some bugs that I can try to fix, please let me know by clicking this box and posting a comment. See you tomorrow!
My birthday is this Saturday. I’m going to be 26 years old. I’m having a harder and harder time justifying asking my friends and family to buy me toys this year. The problem is that aside from a new $5000 camera or a new $600 camera lens, there isn’t really...
So here we are. You put together a handy and adorable little Internet, built yourself a pretty neat little website place, and bought yourself some web space. The time has finally come to put that puppy online and be an Internetman just like me. Without further adieu...
Wordpress has plenty of settings for changing different things. However, there’s a limit to what you can tweak with checkboxes and dropdowns. The real power of Wordpress lies in the fact that it’s all built in PHP, which you c...
A website isn’t really worth much without any content on it (unless you’re like a Pinterest and you have millions of people all over the world to make your content for you). Right now, our little website may look kind of neat, but it’s pretty much blank. Today we...
Sorry this update is a bit late. I've gotten literally thousands of responses on the Saturday Sweepstakes, and I've been sorting through them all weekend. Can you even believe that nobody has responded correctly yet? The deadline has been pushed back yet another week. Feel free to try again if you've already submitted once!
This is where things get a bit tricky - for me, not you. Now that you have a fully functional website running on your computer, how you set it up is entirely up to you. What kind of website do you want? Basically there are two types of websites that we’re dealing with...
Are you ready to put a website together, now? I bet you’re thinking, “hey, this hasn’t been terribly easy and all we’ve done is set up some useless web server that we can’t even really use. I don’t really know how to PHP or anything. How...
How’s “My First Web Server” treating you? Have you been playing around with making cool website places? Do you want me to just shut up and get on with the next part of the tutorial?
Well, it’s hard for me to explain what to do if I have to shut up...
So you’ve enabled your computer’s secret ability to be an Internet. Big deal! What do you do with that puny little Internet of yours? You make a website, of course! Ok, then, off you go; go have some website. What, you still don’t know how to website?
Oh...
Have you always wanted a super cool website? Do you want to enter the exciting and unfathomably vast and lonely sea of websites and mostly garbage that is the Internet? Do you look at Me with scornful envy in your eyes, cursing and damning and cursing again...
Everybody has been asking me, "where's the Saturday Sweepstakes, you wonderfully handsome dude?" (I might have made up some or all of that). The truth is that nobody has claimed the prize yet, so you have another week to win some awesomely real loot (click here (and scroll to the bottom of the post) for details).
I don’t want to get ahead of myself, here, but I am really having a hard time being in favor of gel. Yes, technically gel is better than paste ink. It’s darker, it’s less vulnerable to fading or washing, it works on more mediums, and it’s better on the environment...
Last weekend I went to a birthday party for a few friends. It's part of the reason why I neglected to post anything here for a few days. Please excuse this personal indulgence - I took pictures at the party and I want you to see them. Don't worry, though, they aren't just bo...
How “crowdsourcing” could save education.
Imagine that you are in your last semester of college. Yes, most of my readers were probably there not terribly long ago, but just bear with me. How do you feel? You probably feel excited or proud. You’re ready...
Is it Saturday again, already? Time sure does fly, doesn’t it? A new Saturday means it’s time for a new Saturday Sweepstakes!
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...Calling all dudes! Perhaps you’ve heard of this newfangled thing called Pinterest. It’s a great new way to share pictures from your favorite websites online. The problem is that it’s totally just for girls. Are you a dude who’s tired of being on the outside...
I made a few tweaks to the site which should make your experience a bit smoother. Feel free to click this box to see the details, but it's nothing major.
While dealing with the amoral practices of the utility companies, as we all do once a month, I started thinking, as I do every month, about the existence of evil. We have to live under the yolk of the power company (among other amoral authorities), forced to pay any fees and...
A(nother) Pen Review.
I believe that everybody should have one good pen. You should keep a dependable ballpoint in your pocket for situations when you need to jot down some notes or sign a receipt. It’s as necessary, I feel, as your wallet and keys. Through most of ...
Sorry that there is not a new post today. I know, it totally ruins your Monday to have nothing new to read. Why not head over to this collaborative blog / story thing that I contributed to with a few colleagues. There's quite a bit of content there, and some of the other contributors' stuff is way better than mine. Check it out, it will totally make up for the lack of new content here today. (http://talesofwoot.blogspot.com - The Tales of Woot)
This is part three (well, technically part four) of an ongoing series about the redesign of this website. Spoiler alert: the new design has been live for three weeks. I originally meant for this ongoing thing to actually go on as I was working on the new site and be sort of ...
...Hey, students, what’s up?
If that’s got your attention, you might just be perfectly suited to an action packed internship at the office(s) of DenyConformity.com!
What will our intern be responsible for? Why, all sorts of great, exciting, and broadening work...
So it's been over two years since I started thinking about getting my very own Web Server, and almost two years since the last time I posted here about it. Needless to say, I haven't just forgotten about it in that time. Turn the way-back machine to two years ago, then...
