Broken Glass Gardens Wind Break

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

Broken glass gardens is the little patch of land my parents let me play with while I lived with them.

This video talks about wind breaks and wind can affect how things grow or don’t grow.

Broken Glass Gardens Seed Propagation

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

Broken glass gardens is the little patch of land my parents let me play with while I lived with them.

This video explains a little bit about my method of planting stuff on this little eroded hillside.

Broken Glass Gardens Soil Building

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

Broken glass gardens is the little patch of land my parents let me play with while I lived with them.

This video explains a bit about what I did to try an build soil on the eroded hill.

NC State Permaculture Class

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

Will Hooker gives access to his Introduction to Permaculture class at NC State. This course gives a lot of information. This is a newer version than the ones I watched. The original one was pretty much straight recordings of all the classes. A cool part in the one I watched was that they even recorded the many fields trips they took. Will gives great lectures an he’s also not shy about inviting guest lecturers who really know their stuff.

http://mediasite.online.ncsu.edu/online/Catalog/Full/f5a893e74b7c4b7980fd52dcd1ced71521/?state=UaqpSDpilDAysgHyyraj

Infographics and Visualizing Data

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

Hans Rosling wears many hats. The ones I first saw him wearing were statistician and public speaker. He was demoing his stat program at ted, which he has done many times. It is cool!

Misc Links:

http://datavisualization.ch/

http://selection.datavisualization.ch/

2nd WordPress Shortcode

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

So it turns out that this is a relatively common WordPress function that already does this… Still proud I figured out how to make shortcodes.

function theme() {
return get_bloginfo('template_url');
}
add_shortcode('theme', 'theme');

Comparing Type Faces

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

http://www.typetester.org/ is a cool little website that lets you load fonts side by side and then view them to compare how close they are. It also shows you what bold, italic, all uppercase, and about 5 other options look side by side. I don’t use this much in my day job but that doesn’t mean it isn’t cool.

Rich Snippet Tool

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

The rich snippet tool is a tool produced by Google so that you can test what data Google bot is pulling from a webpage.

Here’s one of my pages that I pushed through the rich snippet tool.

Click Here to Check Out
the Rich Snippet Tool

Paul Wheaton Releases a Dandelion Video

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

Paul Wheaton Releases a Dandelion Video

My Favorite Songs by Darren Hanlon

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Jon McBrayer

The music of Darren Hanlon makes me extremely happy. These are my favorite songs of his in youtube format. I should make this a playlist. That would save time…

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