Category Archives: Journal

WordPress Theme Feature Portability

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Rick Beckman

WordPress themes should not go out of their way to tie us to their use. Take Thesis, for exam­ple.* Over the course of a few months with Thesis, you may have hun­dreds of posts which make use of Thesis-​​​​specific fea­tures such as … Continue read­ing →

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Settling on a Standard Custom Field Naming Schema

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Rick Beckman

WordPress themes & plu­g­ins are able to do some amaz­ing things. They can spice up your home page with ran­dom fea­tured images, pro­vide a myr­iad of caching tech­niques to improve user expe­ri­ence, or  —  and this is in just about everybody’s top 5  —  soup … Continue read­ing →

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Goodbye, “Lost”

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Rick Beckman

Last night was the much antic­i­pated, much hyped “Lost” finale. I’ve counted myself a fan of the show for some­thing around a year now, and I’ve seen just about every episode (minus around four which I slept through). With the series wrapped up, … Continue read­ing →

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Just Dreaming

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Rick Beckman

I believe what Paul wrote about con­tent­ment, and so this thing I’m about to con­fess  —  sim­ple though it may seem  —  is not some­thing I con­fess joy­fully because I believe it reveals the dis­con­tent ever-​​​​present within my heart: I do not want to work where I work … Continue read­ing →

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The Art of Virtue

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Rick Beckman

What is the art of virtue? Why should we focus on virtue when we already focus so heav­ily on doc­trine? Is book-​​knowledge enough? Continue read­ing →

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