Blogging

If you’ve had your head underground for the last couple of weeks (it’s the holiday season, we all tend to do that) you probably hadn’t noticed that Gina Elise of Pin Ups for Vets has set up a YouTube page (at http://www.youtube.com/PinUpsForVets) and is video blogging on a semi-regular basis.
Chances are you haven’t seen this [...]

I wasn’t aware blogging software could be so insecure. I guess that’s just the nature of the beast these days though. How am I aware of it now, you ask? Simple. A great site called BlogSecurity pointed out two vulnerabilities at chrisshort.net that I immediately corrected.
I’m very impressed with the BlogSecurity [...]

The always supportive and exceedingly attractive Gina Elise of Pin Ups for Vets made this quick Happy Holidays video for the troops. Gina Elise freaking rocks!
Gina Elise Wishes Troops Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Gina.

So I’ve been on a blogging hiatus for quite some time now.  The best I’ve been able to manage are a few philanthropic posts over the past several months.  However, I’m anxiously wanting to get back into blogging my personal life, technology, and politics.
The problem is aggregating news to gleen the best information in the [...]

Project Valour-IT, in memory of SFC William V. Ziegenfuss, helps provide voice-controlled and adaptive laptop computers to wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries at major military medical centers. Operating laptops by speaking into a microphone or using other adaptive technologies, our wounded heroes are able to send [...]

A reporter at WMAR, the local ABC affiliate in Baltimore, lifted a news story from Inside Charm City without giving any credit to anywhere else she might have seen it. The story about the Stop Snitching DVD in the UMBC library was covered on WCBM AM and the publisher* of Inside Charm City was interviewed [...]

Remember the beautiful and lovely Gina Elise of Pin Ups for Vets? If you don’t you need to find the nearest rock and crawl out from under it. I got an e-mail from Gina last night saying that she is now taking orders for her 2008 benefit calendar. Gina says, “I am [...]

Remember the beautiful Gina Elise of Pin Ups for Vets? She has been hard at work on the 2008 Pin Ups for Vets calendar and sent me an e-mail asking for a little bit of help. Here is what she sent:
Chris,It’s Gina…I am coming down to the finish line on the ‘08 calendar! [...]

A few years ago I had to hand it to the US Army.  To a certain extent they encouraged soldiers to blog.  For a long time, they were the only branch of the Department of Defense that even had a policy on blogging.  As far as I know, the US Air Force still doesn’t have [...]

I was installing WordPress on a domain yesterday and downloaded the WordPress recommended Widgets Theme Pack. I then unpacked the Widgets Theme Pack in the ‘themes’ directory, pick a theme, and off I went to do other things. Not so fast, after leaving the blog alone for about an hour I noticed [...]