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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-21

  • @topspinmedia looks great! in reply to topspinmedia #
  • It's time for corned beef sandwiches. Happy St. Patrick's Day! #
  • The person who wants things the quickest 100% of the time pays the latest. Nice #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-14

  • Here's to spring! It is supposed to be 50 today and I look forward to opening a few windows! #
  • Just got my first response back to a support/bug report I sent on August 8, 2008. At this point, I am impressed they responded! #
  • Note to self: take glasses to eye doctor appointment so I can actually see the doctor after my contacts are out. #
  • Finally – some sun here in Chicago. Hello! #
  • Business 101 at JZ U – Learning Timezones. It blows my mind every time when people do not know their timezone differences (EST, MST, PST) #
  • Nice – GL is on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/guiding-light Yeah! #
  • @KYellowFarm my grandmother listened to on the radio, my mother watched it, and I watched it every day since 4th gradeish! in reply to KYellowFarm #
  • iPad: ordered. #
  • @htoddcarter because I love cool Apple toys. in reply to htoddcarter #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

  • Happy Monday! Hopefully this week will be a bit calmer than last week! #

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When is Vacation?

I have been going non-stop now since the summer and dream of some time away from it all so I can either finish something fun or just relax yet every week day, weekend, and non-sleeping hour seems to be jammed packed with something.

I absolutely love owning my own business but sometimes it makes things like taking time off or getting away a bit more complicated. Let me re-phrase that…getting completely away.

Any business owners out there that have a secret they want to share so I can better enjoy my time?

I am happy to be busy but it seems lately – clients are contacting me via phone, email, even Facebook (had to adjust my privacy settings) at all times and are non-stop.

Serenity now!

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28

  • Traveling always makes the next week seem long…I wish it was Friday already! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

  • I just wanted to say @JessicaLeccia is doing an amazing job on Venice! Great work! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

  • @wordcampwomen I would be happy to do either! in reply to wordcampwomen #
  • Another manic week. Thank goodness we are getting some snow…it will be a good excuse to get out and play! #
  • Just took a sneak peak at the twins with an ultra sound. All looks good for their May/June debut! #
  • A class that should be required for all workers: effecient communication. Looking to cut waste/cost? Get to the point. #
  • A class that should be required for me: efficient spelling ;) #
  • Sometimes there is just no getting through to people. They are obviously not concerned…so why am I? #
  • @htoddcarter awesome! in reply to htoddcarter #
  • Happy Valentines Day – Chicago style! http://twitpic.com/131kzo #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

  • I just voted…always a proud moment. #

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This Week's Tweets

  • just signed up for WordCamp Chicago. Anyone else going? #
  • TGIF. This weekend: new Lucidity WP theme development and more! #

WordPress 2.9 – An Amazing Update

I have been working with WordPress 2.9 now for a few weeks and I cannot remember the last time I was so excited with the new features of WordPress. There are countless little improvements most users would not notice, but there are some killer new features that should not be overlooked.

  • First and foremost – working with images just got a lot cooler!
    • Thumbnails Finally after creating several custom plugins for this – there is now a simple way to select and then use a thumbnail for each post. Simply add a few lines of code into your theme’s functions.php file and you are ready to go.
      [php]
      add_theme_support( ‘post-thumbnails’ );
      set_post_thumbnail_size( 150, 150, true ); // Normal post thumbnails[/php]
      (more details)
    • Cropping Ever need to crop a photo for your post or page? You can now upload any image, use built in crop functions to select the part of the image you want, save the cropped photo, and then use it – all within WordPress. Say goodbye to opening up Photoshop, cropping, saving, uploading, etc. Say hello to an easy to use streamlined process.
  • We’ve got trash! No more “crap I just deleted that post”. Now you have the option to Edit, View, or Trash a post or several posts. Once the items are in the trash you can easily recover them or permanently delete them.
  • Repair those tables please.Now you can automatically optimization your database by adding this line to your wp-config.php file: define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true);

Some screenshots of interest

Use As Thumbnail

Crop, Scale, etc

If you have not updated to this version – please take some time and take a look. The cropping alone will save hours of time if you ever needed to manipulate your images! Overall, this update took things one step further to making a solid, feature rich content management system and I am excited to use some of these new features with each new site I create!