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Testing an Amazon WordPress “Widget” That Isn’t

My family is always saying that they never know what gifts to get me and I figured that my Amazon wishlist would be a good start. I love me some books. Just put it up on the side there and if anyone wonders what I would like for christmas or my birthday- there it is.

And Amazon even has a WordPress widget for that!

Well, Amazon calls it a WordPress widget but it is just a script called from their servers that can only display in a post. Unlike a proper WordPress widget, I can’t just dock it off to the side where it can live – I have to purposefully place it in the main column like it was a post.

I suppose I can just make it an annual, holiday themed post.

Populating a New Site

I finally got around to setting up a website for clintjohnson.com. I managed to snag it a while back when the previous registration lapsed. I had been keeping up a website at clint-johnson.com (note the hyphen in there) from 2005 to 2007 but had let it lay fallow when I moved down to Vancouver with my RED camera… when I actually should have increased my online presence. Be what may, I am going to get back into a more regular online regimen and tie a few loose threads up into this site.

I’m starting with dredging up some old posts on the smattering of websites over the years. Most of that stuff will be a little stale but may be of interest to some people… like myself for instance.

Global Warming My @$$

Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know that it is "weather" and not "climate" but when you wake up on April 3rd to -22 Celsius (about -8 Fahrenheit for those still stuck in the King’s 18th century… and about 250 Kelvin for those anticipating the 22nd century).

This year is going to see us with snow for over half of the year… and they want me to try and STOP global warming? I think I’ll go set some brush piles on fire.

snow-at-the-backdoor This is what I see when I look out the back door.