Wreaths Across America came to the U.S. Naval Academy today, to lay wreaths on graves at the Naval Academy cemetery. I snapped a few photos while they were here. Wreaths waiting to be placed on graves at the Naval Academy cemetery. The procession of vehicles for Wreaths Across America, including motorcycles and vehicles from various police departments in Maine (where the program got its start). Volunteers lay wreaths on graves at the Naval Academy.

I’ve released a new WordPress plugin, called Author Customization. This plugin gives you much greater flexibility in managing post authors on your WordPress site. Rather than having to rely entirely on the one-size-fits-all user management system, you can customize author names and bio entries on a per-post basis. You’ll also be able to enable a WYSIWYG editor for biographical info (the same editor used by WordPress for editing posts), to have richer formatting of author bio entries.

I’ve been a Google Voice user since June 2009, when it was still invite-only and had the promise of doing to phones what Gmail did to email. When I finally got access I was excited, and even though I didn’t have a smartphone (which meant using Voice was cumbersome) I was happy with its performance. It was one of the driving factors behind my getting an Android phone, and at first things were awesome.

Today I released my first WordPress plugin, called Relogo. It’s a simple plugin that lets you easily add support for rel="logo" to your WordPress site, in accordance with the spec published at relogo.org. The rel="logo" specification is a cool and simple way to make sure people always have the most up-to-date version of your logo without having to make any changes to their code. So check out my plugin, and install it on your site!

I’m a relatively recent convert to reading books. I wasn’t much of a reader growing up, and it wasn’t until I got my first eBook reader that I found a love for books. For me, reading on a screen is much easier than reading on a printed page. Then there are the added benefits of automatic bookmarking/syncing, lack of physical objects to store, instant delivery, and highlighting and notes that, for those of us with atrocious handwriting, are actually legible.

Snapseed, a popular image manipulation tool for Android and iOS, has added a feature to turn any image into an HDR image. I did some tests, and here are my results. An HDR version of a photo I posted earlier in the year. Our house in Maine. Gisela and me at a photo shoot. Another one of Gisela at the photo shoot, this time with much heavier HDR filtering. Counter Protesters against the Westboro Baptist Church.

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