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Lyric Converter V2! 27 Jun 2013 | 08:00 pm
If you just want to go use it: LyricConverter.com But first… The Backstory… A few years ago my church used some lyric presentation software called SongShowPlus, and it worked… but we didn’t love it...
Recipe: Mashed & Baked Sweet Potatoes 25 Jun 2013 | 06:05 am
I love to make food, and I do it on a somewhat regular basis, so I hope this is the first of many photo-recipe posts. I’d love feedback from this if anyone tries anything I blog about! A while back I...
CSS Pixels 15 Jun 2013 | 04:48 am
Several weeks ago I made this presentation for work after doing a bit of research and becoming interested in how pixels on our screens are actually calculated. It’s not at all what I expected at firs...
Liza & Her Bike 31 May 2013 | 04:41 pm
My friend and coworker Liza recently completed a half-IronMan (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run – WOW) and she wanted some photos to commemorate her training before the event. One evening we...
Gmail Tricks 2 May 2013 | 08:50 am
A while ago I found out about some pretty useful tricks that gmail allows you to do with your email address. While talking to some coworkers I was reminded that not everyone is aware of these, so I’d ...
Atoms For Peace 24 Apr 2013 | 01:00 am
What happens when Thome Yorke of Radiohead and Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers starts a band? You get Atoms For Peace. In my mind Thom Yorke can do no wrong, I’m a huge fan of his and all his projects...
Console2 Integration With Visual Studio 2012 23 Apr 2013 | 08:00 pm
Do you need any kind of command line access for your Visual Studio projects? If so, that built in CMD in Windows works… but it could be a lot better. In comes Console2 – all hail the power! Go ahead...
Easy Bundles for .NET MVC4 19 Apr 2013 | 09:15 pm
You’ve heard about bundles in .NET 4.5, right? If not you should read up on them, but the basics are that you can include multiple uncompressed JavaScript and CSS files in your project when in debug m...
Hiding Junk You Don’t Care About on Facebook 19 Apr 2013 | 03:15 am
If you’re like me, you have a love/hate relationship with Facebook. Some things people post are great and worth your time, but there’s an increasing amount of stuff you just don’t care about in the l...
Radiohead Live At Coachella 2012 18 Apr 2013 | 06:27 am
I once went to a Radiohead concert in L.A. a few years ago, and it still remains my all time favorite live show ever. I found this high quality recording of Radiohead live at Coachella in 2012, along ...
