Notebook / Blog

Rather than a blog, I like to think of this space as a personal notebook that is open and available for all to see. If I'm already keeping notes for my own various uses, why not share them publicly and hopefully provide value to others as well?


Consider the advice and suggestions of others but follow your own heart and dreams. Live your life now.

 

Photo: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 3/31/2018.


What good is a textbook on a shelf? Knowledge is important but if and how you apply it is what counts. Imagination is the ultimate application of your personal experiences, thoughts and knowledge.

 

Photograph: Vancouver, BC, Canada. 1/2020.


Had a great conversation related to this. The mind gets in the way of creating. If you can get over mental hurdles of perfectionism, getting things right the first time, judgement, and other similar self-sabotages, you free yourself to create.

 

Photograph: The wonderful Big Pine Key, Florida. October 2019


It’s so easy to overthink things. Do more of what you love, less of what you don’t, and enjoy the moment.

 

Photograph: Sunset on the bay down the shore on Saturday. One of the last of 2019.

 


If you'd to show some HTML content on a Shopify product page ONLY if the product has a specific tag, the following is the trick that will help you (hopefully!).

 

My use case: In one of my Shopify stores, I wanted to automatically show a different set of Frequently Asked Questions and Testimonials for each type of product I had. To accomplish this, I decided to tag each piece of content with the type of product it was. Then I wrote up some simple HTML to display for each product type. Then, I inserted the following for/if statement into the product-template.liquid:


I was interested in adding a Shopify store to my existing website, while also using the domain name I already had (rather than use the storename.myshopify.com web site address that Shopify provides). The solution that made most sense, in my head at least, was to make the Shopify store accessible through my domain name as a subdomain.

 

As in, make the Shopfiy store accessible via shop.mydomainname.com, where mydomainname.com was my existing site.

 


All full-time University of Pennsylvania faculty and staff with O365 accounts are eligibile to install Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint) on up to 5 devices (including computers and mobile devices). To install on your computer, click here for instructions.


In the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, we use the open-source python-based Mailman mailing list software. There are many options that can be configured on a per-list basis. The information in this post contains general notes, how to's, and best practices for listserv management -- some aspects, including the list default settings, are specific to our use case at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.


Many staff and faculty at the University of Pennsylyvania enjoy having the Academic Calendar visible on their O365 Outlook Calendar. To add the Penn Academic Calendar to your Office365 Web Calendar (OWA), follow these instructions.