dpal on August 31st, 2006

While Tropical Storm Ernesto approaches our doorstep, we just sit and wait. Horry County Schools will be let out an hour early, so I’m guessing that Amy and the kids are home now. I have to remain here at work with all of my work apps and utilities up on one screen and a loop […]

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dpal on August 28th, 2006

Whew! things are moving pretty furiously - well, at least in my mind. I found a drupal plugin that would integrate gooogle maps into the new site once it’s up. The module boasts user interaction as well, so any user that logs in, can add a tag to the map. As far as the Family […]

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dpal on August 28th, 2006

Thanks to Terry for the suggestion! I have now created a Frappr map to help pinpoint the location of known members of our family. You can find the map HERE. You will need to create an account in order to add yourself(I think), but registration is free. Sooner or later I will want to […]

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dpal on August 25th, 2006

… all of a sudden it came to me! My original intent for the parent site was to make it a meeting place of a sort - where we, as a family could come together and share conversation, and ideas. While I was searching for plug-ins for drupal I ran into a 3rd party plugin […]

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dpal on August 24th, 2006

I’ve been trying to figure out for quite some time on which Content Management System I wanted to use for the parent site. Lately, I have been playing around with Joomla, which was a snap to install, but after that, seemed a little less intuitive. I think over the weekend, I’ll be giving Drupal a […]

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dpal on August 23rd, 2006

Google’s Picasa is a picture album and photo organizer. They have now incorporated web albums. This is an example of embedding the My Family album into this blog. All of the pictures are fairly old and I haven’t put any captions or anything like that. Just figured all of you family types would like this.

Family

Dec […]

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dpal on August 21st, 2006

I had a chance to listen to the Dan Patrick Show on ESPN radio this afternoon. Dan and Michael Irving were debating on whether or not Tiger Woods could actually be the greatest athlete alive. Both seemed to be in agreement that:

Golfers are not athletes
Tiger wouldn’t be able to compete if he were involved in […]

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