The Unfettered Bloke

Hardcore bloggers will tell you that in order to be successful you need to post regularly, write well, provide value, make it easy for readers to connect and to be unique. Well, I know for a fact I don’t do any of those things well, except for being unique perhaps. I don’t have a ton [...]

For several years now, Christmas just hasn’t felt like Christmas to me. Perhaps it’s just a feeling that dissipates with age? Am I the only one that feels this way? All I know is that it’s been a really long time since Christmas didn’t just seem like any other day on the calendar.

I recently redesigned my wife’s blog, based off a new theme by my favorite Wordpress template developers, WooThemes. The theme I selected has some nifty little java-script to display your latest Twitter update. Since Carrie isn’t a Twitter user, and likely isn’t going to become one anytime soon, I tried to find a way to [...]

I decided on a whim to re-do Carrie’s website, just for fun. WooThemes (my favorite Wordpress template designers) released a new theme this week which got the wheels churning, so this is what I ended up with. It was fun little project and I’m finding the more I dabble in PHP (code speak for my [...]

Ok, so this was probably one of the most unproductive weekends we’ve had in a very long time. Wanted to start on the deck Saturday, but it wound up raining all weekend, which was fine, because we desperately need the rain around here. Went to Lowe’s Saturday and purchased some more items for the backyard, [...]