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Thoughts

Just designed two new websites

My wife teaches piano lessons to children and adults, and has also started to do primer music camps for children, so I designed two websites for her. The first is Fun Piano Lessons and the other is Fun Music Camps.

I want to point them out because I’m using the WordPress CMS to drive the sites, yet you won’t be able to tell that at first look. I designed completely custom templates for each that hide the usual WordPress functionality, so the sites look like normal websites, yet everything on them can be updated on the fly. Of course, I used pure CSS to drive the layout, styles, colors and graphics.

The other cool thing is that it only took me a day to do each site. That’s the power of leveraging the WordPress CMS platform! One can focus on the design aspects and the content, and leave the back end to WordPress. Why reinvent the wheel, right?

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Events

Apple Introduces 17-inch MacBook Pro

Hot diggety! Today Apple unveiled its 17-inch MacBook Pro, and boy, is it a beauty! Check it out!

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Thoughts

Scientists debunk astrology

Discovery News has a great article detailing a large study done to see if there’s any connection between astrological signs and personality traits. The result: no such thing. I had a hunch this was true for some time now, and I’m glad to see scientific proof of it. Here’s the article.

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Thoughts

Judge rules in favor of allowing employees to surf the net at work

A New York judge has just ruled employees can’t be fired for surfing the Internet at work, as long as it doesn’t interfere with their productivity – he talked about it as an activity similar to using the phone. Techdirt has the details on this. He is to be lauded for his wonderful ruling! Allowing employees to surf the net increases their productivity; it doesn’t decrease it. Those people who surf the net to waste time would find other ways to waste it, so they can’t be used as a reason to curtail Internet access for the productive employees.

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Thoughts

On demand airflight to arrive by at least end of year

A company called DayJet will start taking orders from customers later this year for “on demand flying”. They have these light, 4-passenger airplanes called the Eclipse 500, and will let passengers book them for flights between cities that don’t normally offer commercial flights. CNET has the details in this article. I’m curious to find out what their pricing looks like, and how safe it’d be to fly in their airplanes.

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