New Graphics
I’m finally getting around to adding some header graphics to the blog featuring images that are more advanced than a 2nd grader’s failed art project. I never much made it past stick figures (and my attempt at business graphics clearly demonstrates this), however, I have friends who are starving artists and know others in the [...]
WordCamp NYC 2009
WordPress is one of the most widely adopted, easily modified and customized blogging and content management platforms available. It’s what powers the Snowman as well as some larger sites (oh, like CNN’s blogs); WordPress blogs are read by some tens of millions of users a day. Cool? Not as cool as being involved. WordCamp New [...]
Carrie Fisher Tells It Like It Is
I stumbled on Carrie Fisher’s blog following a pointer from the ever-popular Squeech. She is hilarious. She is the show-business equivalent of Howard Cosell for her ability to tell it like it is. And her blog is WordPress-powered, so nerds have yet another reason to like her. [ad#Google Adsense]
Facebook Reveals The Snowman’s Origins
My intense and borderline unhealthy obsession with snowmen and their numerical equivalents (the number eight) stems from a childhood fascination with Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Willie Stargell. I remember liking Stargell because he was the de facto leader of the Pirates, and my best friends Scott and Glenn cheered for the Bucs so I followed gold-and-black [...]
Eight Days, Eight Nights in Outline Form
The more I blog and mention “the book,” the more questions I get about it. So here’s a summary of the book, in outline form, based on current course and speed. This is completely serious, including my sidebar comments about content and tone. Your mileage may vary, the actual contents may appear smaller than described, [...]
Putting Things In Perspective
It’s tht time of year when we’re about three weeks away from politics, heated debates, long arguments, claims of nepotism, favoritism and special interests overshadowing the real issues at hand. I’m not talking about anything going on at the Federal Reserve, in the Capitol Building or along Pennsylvania Avenue: I’m talking about hockey tryouts, conditioning [...]
So You Want to Coach In The NHL?
The Penguins have just named Dan Bylsma as head coach for the last quarter of the season. Bylsma played CCHA college hockey, played for the LA Kings, and is the co-author of two books on pursuing an NHL career. His “So You Want to Play in the NHL?” is aimed at kids; and “So Your [...]
Twitter Sidebar
Been playing with a variety of ways to get my public Twitter timeline integrated here, as much of my tweeting seems to involve time before and after hockey (or eating or work, or eating at work). After playing with the default Twitter plugin for WordPress (which requires the PHP curl library, which I hadn’t installed) [...]
More Hockey Books
After keeping lists of books in notebooks, Mac sticky notes, Evernote and in physical form on a bookshelf, I decided it was time to update my reading record. Part Two of my hockey book list is now on the sidebar, featuring the best of Jack Falla, books on Zambonis, Hobeys, and midwestern youth hockey. I [...]
WordPress TV
The Snowman is brought to you by WordPress, open source blogging software that is written in PHP and uses the MySQL database for storing content and meta-data about the content. In short: you get a full-featured, robust, community developed and maintained personal editorial platform for exactly zero dollars. WP is also the engine that drive [...]