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If historical events had Facebook statuses

August24

My taste in humor is always going to contain profanity. If not, it will contain LOL Cats. Expletives and kittens get me every time.

So you can see why I thought this was funny… My favorite is the Titanic / Iceberg :)

http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/if-historical-events-had-facebook-statuses/

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Fashion police

July27

Photo: Yours Truly

As I walk the busy city streets at lunchtime I see a parade of pale blue shirts. Do they all shop at the same place? Do these places not sell another color shirt?

This pale blue parade reminds me of “Little Boxes,” the theme song of Weeds. “… doctors and lawyers and business executives, and they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same…”

When we lived in Wilmington I remember commenting that everyone there dressed so casually. Even the “professional” types downtown never wore a jacket, if they even wore a tie.

Here in Nashville there’s a diverse crowd for sure, and you can always find a good place to watch people go by. Since everyone knows us as “Music City USA” you’ll also find herds of tourists that think they’ll look like locals if they wear their cowboy hats and boots. CMA Week is the best example of the awesome people-watching here.

Nashville is not just country music and cowboy boots. We’re also not just a pale blue shirt parade. You should definitely come see for yourself :)

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Wordpress images not showing in Internet Explorer

July13

I ran into this issue yesterday. I created an image which originally came from Adobe Illustrator and ended up in Adobe Photoshop. I saved the image as a JPG and uploaded it to a Wordpress blog. When I sent the blog’s link to everyone I work with, I got a quick call from one of them stating the image didn’t appear for them.

Let the troubleshooting begin. :)

Images not showing in Internet Explorer

I quickly determined that the issue was with Internet Explorer, as the image showed up in Firefox and Chrome. So I did a Google search to see what documentation is out there.

Several places suggested it may be a permalink issue. I tried it just to make sure, but that was not the answer in this case.

Upon further searching I found the issue on the Microsoft Support page. These are all great suggestions, but still didn’t fix my problem.

So, back to the drawing board – the Photoshop drawing board. I thought maybe I should rename the file or try a different file format, that maybe Wordpress was getting confused because I had uploaded several versions of the file to get it just right.

As I was re-saving the JPG image, I realized the error of my ways. The file was in CMYK color mode. D’oh! I changed it to RGB color mode, re-saved, re-uploaded and voila! Instant fix!

It’s like magic.

What tipped me off? When you do a “save as” in CMYK color mode you have far fewer file format options to choose from than RGB color mode. I noticed my list was much shorter and then checked how the mode was set. Hopefully this will be helpful if you ever encounter this issue.

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