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Ran into this today with a WP site I was working on. I didn’t want the default version of jquery that’s included now with wordpress, so I found this handy dandy script so that I could load the latest from google. I just added it to the bottom of my functions.php file:

//forcing jquery to load the version we want
function my_scripts_method() {
    wp_deregister_script( 'jquery' );
    wp_register_script( 'jquery', 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js');
    wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
}    

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_scripts_method');

This was my Christmas gift to Lauren this year! An Industrial Chic, Steampunk esque Chess set. I found the board on Etsy, and built the pieces out of nuts and bolts from the hardware store. I got one side rusted using Patina Blue solution, which I found from this sweet tutorial.

If you want to make your own, or you want a set, drop me a line!

Add this image to your site at your own risk! Scary times!

SOPA is too blunt. Please veto.

PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa

PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

Mozilla is taking action, and so can you.

So I finally got Outlook for Mac at work this week, and I really like it so far. One thing I immediately noticed was missing, however, was the ability to setup signatures to not show on any replies and forwards. This is pretty important to me, since I’m frequently getting myself into pretty deep email chains, and I don’t want my email and phone number on all 75 emails in them.

This was definitely a problem that needed a fix. A quick google search, and I found a solution: Application Shortcuts. This is a pretty awesome tool on the mac, that seems glaringly absent from windows. What it does is basically give you the ability to set keyboard shortcuts for any application, and manage them all via system preferences:

1. After setting up my signature in Outlook, I went to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts.
2. In the list on the left, I went down to Application Shortcuts.
3. I hit the plus sign to add a new shortcut.
4. In the applications dropdown, I found Outlook.
5. The next step was extremely important to get this to work. In the Menu Title box, you need to add the menu name exactly as it appears in the app. This does not include the path to this menu item. For example my menu item was to insert my signature called Standard (Draft > Signatures > Standard), so I put just the word “Standard” in this box.
6. Then assign the keyboard command, save, and viola! You now have a keyboard command to add a signature whenever you like in Outlook.

Well, here is my next foray into the world of industrial chic design. As with my ladder shelf, this coffee table is made completely from reused items, right down to the screws. The top is made from hardwood flooring straight from a basketball court, which I found at Construction Junction. Also from CJ are the 2×4′s and legs, made from case iron pipe I cut down, and leveled off with adjustable pipe fittings as feet. The drawers are from an old filing cabinet I had in storage. It turned out to be a fun project, and it feels good to recycle old goods into some cool furniture.

Check out the pics below to see the steps I went through, and feel free to comment and let know what you think!