Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks points out that us geeks have our own language that sometimes sounds alien to the outsider. He came up with a list of some of these words and does a good job explaining them in plain english.

Browser – A browser is a software application that is used to visit websites. Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc. If you think this is obvious, think again.

Server – When a webpage is visited, data is sent from some computer somewhere to your computer over the internet. That other computer is a server, essentially just like the one you are looking at, only specially configured to deliver information to other computers asking for it. Even though any computer could technically be a server, far more commonly people purchase server functionality from companies that specialize in it, like Media Temple. In addition to “server” being used to describe the physical machine, it also may be used to describe the software program used on that machine which handles serving up that data, like Apache.

For about a year now my Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth has served me well. One of the best earpieces I have had yet. Sound was great on both ends and was comfortable for the most part to wear.
My wife comes in the room holding my earpiece in her hand. "Guess what you left in your shorts pocket?" she says. From the look on her face I could tell that she discovered it after she had already did the laundry.

If you have been following me on Twitter the last few weeks you will know that I've been trying out Joomla. I did a local install of it on my mac using MAMP.
Everything was going great until I attempted to apply a security upgrade package. The upgrading steps were pretty simple. Every attempt I tried produced a blank screen. At first I thought this was a PHP memory issue. I have had similar issues with this before using Drupal.
I was getting some help from @AmyStephen and @Arlen. Turns out the issue was with the default way Mac OS transfers files using finder by replacing the folders contents instead of merging them. Doing a google search there were several methods for a workaround. I found using the terminal was the easiest.
Here are the steps I did.

Catching up on video podcasts this morning. CNET gave a tip on how to get media files transferred from your iPhone to your PC. They currently have a beta version out for Mac users as well. Best of all both versions are FREE.
If you like the software and use it, show the dev your love by throwing a little cash his or her way as a thank you. There is a Donate button on the homepage.

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A friend of mine (Greg Lees) bought a house next door to him a couple of years ago with the plans of fixing it up and having his daughter and son in-law move into it. It needed a lot of work. Greg has been working on it in the evenings after his day job and weekends since. Most if not all of the work is being completed by himself. The entire house was gutted out re-wired, plumbing replaced, the works. He should be very proud of the job he did. A lot of sweat and time went into this.
It's such an amazing transformation that I had to post a few of the before and after pics here.

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Here are two videos in which Darrin enters the Twittersphere. We just happen to have the same name :)

Trouble with Twitters

Celebrity Twitter Overkill

Getting off work early today gave me a few extra hours to myself. I sat down and read a chapter in Romans and in the background I had the the trailer music playing from the latest #3">Star Trek Trailer. I love that music in the trailer. I began to think about what it would sound like if it was the music for the trailer for say....The Passion of Christ. That led my over caffeinated mind to put some clips together using iMovie and mix in the music for the background. I didn't do any editing to the music at all. Just made the clips match the music length (2 min 27 sec) and called it a wrap. The result is...well....different.

@Shrop shared a link to a very nice desktop wallpaper titled Hardwood Lights. Being an Apple user it looks great to me the way it is. I'm also a fan of Drupal. I simply took the wallpaper and gave it a drupal touch.
Hope you enjoy it.

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