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Fix broken images due to mixed content errors on WordPress

WordPress introduced responsive images in version 4.4, but it also introduced a bug which causes them not to load properly on https encrytped sites. Here's how to fix this problem.
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Creating a Recipe Database with FileMaker

Many people have a large the collection of recipes, cobbled together over the years, clipped from newspapers and magazines, passed down from parents and grandparents, from cookbooks and online recipe sites. How to go about organizing these recipes? Let's explore the possibilities...

Color blender

I found this very cool Color Blender utility that allows you to input two colours, specify how many midtones you'll need, and it calculates the midpoint colours in hexadecimal value for use in CSS

Happy (belated) birthday, Macintosh

Yesterday, January 24, marked a very important anniversary in our technologically-driven society. It was 20 years ago, in 1984, that Apple introduced the Macintosh personal computer. I don't quite

An iPod in 1984?

I was looking at the Apple site, where they are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh computer. They posted a QuickTime version of the original ad for the Macintosh that aired on the Super

SARS-stock review

I, among many other thousands of people (450,000 was the generally reported figure), ventured down to Downsview Park in Toronto to see the benefit concert featuring The Rolling Stones. When it was

Interview on CKCU's Moving Images

I was interviewed by Peter Maitland on CKCU radio's Moving Images program about the production of my short film Lucky - or Not? We discussed the film, and the process of digital filmmaking.