KattyWilly

Got up early to chase a stray cat of the deck, then feed the cats, and back to bed for a little more sleep. Then it’s a little bit of CBS Sunday morning on TV. Sit down and check the mail, post a couple of photos from the North Pinellas Photo Forum photo walk from yesterday morning. Mmmmmm… warm biscuits would be nice, a cup of coffee and it’s time for the Folk Show on WNUR 89.3

Reading the “news” and found an interesting item about about politics and playing to the base, rather than trying to attract or inform, and from the marketing perspective the same concept of going deeper or wider to attract new customers, a thought provoking story about awareness by David Foster Wallace that perhaps should be told to students as they enter college rather then when the leave, and in a similar note an item from Ronnie’s TimeGoesBy site that sums up much of the joy in life at the moment:

I drink wine
I listen to music
I read books
Often at the same time.

Might have a lazy day, spend some time out on the front patio, may even have a pivo, or two.

Sometimes I think that if I describe some cool idea on the Internet somehow it eventually ends up happening.  Previously I asked for a portable Internet streaming radio device.  And now I carry around an iPod Touch and use it as my portable Internet streaming radio device using Wunder Radio and Pandora as my “tuner”.  Now I want something to replace the old fashioned cable box.

I just ordered my first HD LCD TV and have started to dream about having a user controlled, highly automated, and user friendly RSS reader like mechanism to collect Video content for playing on my new screen.  I still keep picturing a device something like an Apple TV/Mac Mini/Airport Express/Time Capsule that would put out video and music to the TV and speakers.

After I graduated from Deerfield High School I moved to Evanston with my older brother and worked full time at Highland Park Hospital where I eventually met my wife Cindy.  While living in Evanston I spent plenty of time on the campus of Northwestern, not as a student but as a “townie” who loved to ride around the Lakefill and campus on my bicycle. It is a spectacularly beautiful campus on Lake Michigan, and university I could only imagine attending.

Since Lindsey started school at Northwestern I have been following as much of the NU activities as I can.   The sports teams had a good season, the football team played to a 9-4 record and played in the Alamo bowl, and the basketball team played in the NIT tournament.  The teams with the best results in recent years have been some of the women’s teams especially tennis and Lacrosse.  The Lady Wildcats have won the Lacrosse National Championship the last four years.  The story of the Northwestern Ladies Lacrosse team is pretty amazing. Lake the Posts a NU football blog pointed me to the story of Friends of Jaclyn.

For any parent this story is guaranteed to bring on more than a few tears and partly explain the motivation that drives a group of young women to achieve in the sport of Lacrosse.

Friends of Jaclyn HBO

I want to convert the Skating Club site to a WordPress site so it is easier and more accessible.

So I searched Google and thought I would collect the links here.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates

http://www.transycan.net/abc/visual_anat.html

http://boren.nu/archives/2004/11/10/anatomy-of-a-wordpress-theme/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

http://divitodesign.com/2008/12/wordpress-theme-development-checklist/

http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2006/12/25/wordpress-theme-development-workflow-for-osx/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates

http://wpcandy.com/articles/easier-theme-development-with-the-sample-post-collection.html

http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/web-development-tutorials/using-xampp-for-local-wordpress-theme-development/

http://forthelose.org/11-tips-for-speeding-up-wordpress-theme-development

Topics that include changing the URL andmoving a site.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Advanced_Topics

A Page on Pages

http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

http://www.wnur.org/folk/?p=321