http://www.danhendricks.com Learn from yesterday, live for today. Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:15:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We went to the new Sonic restaurant that went up on the East side of Appleton today.  Generally, we're excited when new businesses come to the area - having more selection is never a bad thing.  However, we weren't impressed with our inaugural trip to the restaurant.  Our experience: The place ... http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/09/sonic-drive-in/ My parents are redoing their master bathroom, and we're trying to figure out what to go with on a few things: Color - They have decided to go with tan and earth tone colors for the tile and counter tops.  The granite is a mix of tan colors.  What looks better ... http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/07/bathroom-remodel-advice/ I've been looking for a decent PHP editor for my Macbook Pro - something like Dreamweaver, but free.  I finally found it in Aptana Studio.  It's available for Mac, Windows and Linux.  It has built-in support for PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python and Java, live FTP/FTPS editing, Subversion connectivity, and ... http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/07/aptana-studio/ Digg recently asked readers to submit questions for their interview with Sacha Baron Cohen.  If you're a fan, you may think this is funny: Digg Dialogg: Brüno http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/06/digg-dialogg-bruno/ Rush Limbaugh had some interesting commentary on the Democratic party on Thursday: CALLER: "[W]hat do the Democrats want? They own the car industry. They don't want us to go to college. What do they want? At the end of this, what do they want? They're going ... http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/05/addicted-to-power/ I just put together my first release of Twig, a plugin for WordPress that will pull your tweets from Twitter, cache them in a database, and display them chronologically intermingled with your WordPress posts.  It the first version, so there are bound to be bugs with it.  I hope to ... http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/04/twig-wordpress-twitter-integrator/ I made an interesting vodka pasta dish using some of the leftover the remaining leftover ham from Easter.  It was delicious, so I thought I would share it with you.  You can view the recipe here: Quick & Easy Vodka Pasta http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/04/vodka-pasta/ I'm working on a project, and I'm using my web site to test its functionality. For the few people that actually visit my blog, you may notice some bugs over the next 2 weeks with my site. I should have it wrapped up by then. http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/04/web-site/ I've made a couple of changes to my site.  As you can probably see, I have added my twitter feed to my front page.  I've done this because I don't post to my main blog as much as I used to - I post my thoughts to Twitter (which then ... http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/04/web-site-changes/ Alexis Grace got screwed on Idol last night.  Michael "Roughneck" Sarver should have gone, and I'm shocked that Allison Iraheta was in the bottom three - she rocks.  Alexis was clearly disappointed during her second run of the song, but that's understandable. It's going to be a tough year - lots ... http://www.danhendricks.com/2009/03/american-idol-8-11/