Today, I setup a couple of WordPress plugins for automatically posting blog links to Facebook and Twitter. WP to Twitter The first is WP to Twitter.  Instructions are pretty straightforward for creating a Twitter app for integration.  Small hitch was that after creating my Access Token I had to reload the page in order for the access tokens to actually show up.  Now whenever I create a new post, it will post a Tweet using [...]

Facebook is not run by philanthropists intent on providing a valuable service to the world by helping them keep in contact with people they know (or don’t know as the case may be).  It is run by businessmen who are making money in various ways that include selling advertising and personalization. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with making money (I like to do that myself), but it does have an impact on how [...]

I love the complexity of what I do at work, but I don’t particularly enjoy it when it keeps me awake at night.  Sometimes I find myself laying in bed for an hour or two at a time, in the middle of the night, simply because my brain just won’t turn off.  I’ll find my thoughts looping through different scenarios and challenges I’m facing.  During this time of absolutely zero distraction, however, I find that [...]