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Get a great desktop or image (and help my nephew go to H2O Polo camp)

Mar 13th, 2009
by Christian Brady.
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My nephew is trying to raise funds to go to water polo camp and my brother (his father) has set up a donation button at his site. You can donate as little or as much as you like. But what I wanted to highlight most of all is his mad image skillz. Most of you who read this blog are also bloggers. Need a new image for your header? Want a themed desktop/wall paper? Matt does a tremendous job. (Sample image below.) So please donate if you can!

Help Matthew Get to Camp–and get a Wallpaper!.

Let’s get the bottom line “up front”–Matt wants to create custom wall-papers for you to help get to camp, or could you just donate two dollars?

Matthew has enjoyed swimming and water polo this season.  If you have viewed any of the water polo videos here, you can see how much fun they have had on their way to winning the State HS Championship.

The team is planning a trip as a team to Pepperdine University this summer to attend what is perhaps the premiere water polo training camp. They hope to continue their growth as Polo players and perhaps win not just a second State Championship for the Boys team, but to regain the title for the Girls team.

That said, we are asking for your help.  This camp is not cheap.  They estimate that it will cost $1200 to send a player to camp.  We are hoping you can help send Matt.

Matthew wants to work to earn his money to get to camp.  As you can see from this website, he is quite talented with the graphic arts, and would like to do “Custom Desktop Wall-Papers” for you.  For $50, he will use up to three (large) photos that you send him, and work with you to create your own special wallpaper.  Imagine having your own wallpaper on your computer, making whatever statement you wish!

Read more…Help Matthew Get to Camp–and get a Wallpaper!
A sample of Matthew’s work (and one of the best NCAA basketball players out there, Talor Battle!):
Wallpaper of Talor Battle, photo by Associated Press from the Illinois game after he made the game winning shot
 

Testing out WordPress 2.5 posting features

Apr 5th, 2008
by Christian Brady.
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There are a ton of new posting features in WP 2.5. The interface for composing is extremely comprehensive and works just fine in BonEcho (Firefox) for Mac. Some of the new features are around the handling of media, including being able to upload more than one image at once. It works like a treat. Just select a group of photos and it starts uploading! They go straight into another new feature, the “gallery.” You can then load that into a post. I am not sure how it works. So let’s try it out, shall we?

These should all be pictures of the kids using sidewalk paint on Easter Day. Now that is very cool!

Text editing – The keyboard shortcuts such as bold and italics, etc. (ctrl b and i respectively) work just fine and there is even a full screen mode. You can now also do a lot more formatting (paragraph, header, etc.) Now, before I get hammered with comments, I know that much of this was available before but it made a huge difference which browser you used. So if nothing else, it is a convenience for me that all these features work with Firefox/BonEcho for Mac You can also “remove formatting,” “paste from Word,” and “undo.” NB Mac users: The default “command” key is ctrl rather than the cmd/Apple key.

Finally, I had to update a few plugins (the auto update feature is great! but not all plugins support it yet) including GoogleAnalytics. That seem to solve a few bugs. Other than that, this is an upgrade well worth making! Your visitors won’t see too many differences, but you will.