Firestone DBA (double barrel ale)

June 10, 2011

Firestone DBA (double barrel ale) from the Firestone Walker Brewing Company. No distribution in Nebraska, acquired via my brother. DBA is a Firestone Union oak barrel fermented british-style pale ale. 5% ABV. The brewers description from their website: “We’ve honored the traditions of the great British Pale brewers of Burton-on-Trent using our patented Firestone Union [...]

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Add +1 To Thesis WordPress Theme

June 1, 2011

A sharp tutorial is available on the DIYThemes.com website, but you might also want to add it to The Loop of your main blog entry page for more exposure of your individual posts. To do so, follow the steps in the tutorial, but change your custom function to: function google_plus_one_output() { if ( is_home() || [...]

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Easy Reputation Monitoring

May 25, 2011

Easy Reputation Monitoring – a.k.a. automated ego surfing – via Google News Alerts. Visit: Google Alerts. Enter your search term in the box. In this example, I’m searching on my full name, so wrap it in double quotes to search as a phrase. Set it to Everything, As-It-Happens, Only the best results, and delivery to [...]

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A New Day

May 4, 2011

I think I’m going to blow up my blog. This blog. I’ve been posting since 2001 when I wrote a little blog engine as a side project at work. I guess I was at the forefront of the blogging movement back then – and more-so a bit later when David and I launched AdPulp.com That [...]

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Back In The Old Days

August 4, 2010

I love old photographs, especially this batch of Great Depression-era color photos published by Denver Post. Pulled from the archives of the Farm Securitiy Administration. A must see. …some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the [...]

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Bandon Dunes

July 18, 2010

Subtitle: Where’d my golf game go this year. (photo from our Bandon Dunes trip in March 2009) July 18th, 2010. I’ve played one round – in a scramble. Hopefully my dad, brother and I will be able to fit in a Bandon Dunes trip in March. On the heels of my wife’s “girls weekend in [...]

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