âI would have been here ten minutes earlier if I hadnât been stuck behind that Meanderthal.â
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My dogs, Hitch and Porter, represent two extremes when it comes to traveling with pets. Porter, a rescued Lab-boxer mix who’s afraid of his own shadow, is an absolute joy in the car. He curls up quietly in the back seat, doesn’t make a peep, and occasionally rests his head on my&nbs...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
I have a concept for a ‘box’ with Linux, MySQL, PHP, Apache, and WordPress sitting under a desk. That will be where the next generation of WordPress based websites will begin. It’s an appliance for creating a website on the WordPress platform.
Once finished enough for first publication, the Appliance will sync up with the actual website and transfer the content up for initial publication. Subsequent updates will occur on the ‘box’ and be ‘syndicated’ or synced when finished.
Notice I said syndicated first. I think syndication onto multiple ‘owned’ websites might be a good business model for many bloggers and website owners. Besides cross-promotion on the owned network, being open and organized around syndication is a good place to be for the prolific content creator or marketer.
Proper distribution via syndication may be the only promotional work ever needed by many bloggers and hobbyists.
I’m convinced even more that WordPress needs to embrace the ‘Fediverse’…
Tonight on Shark Tank I heard the phrase, “Facebook giveth and Facebook taketh away”. A stark reminder that promotion on the commercial social media platforms is a perilous place to be basing business upon.
The Indie Web is a good answer to that predicament. It is not perfect and sometimes creates some very strange ‘bedfellows’ but federation across the Indie Web opens outlets that may sometimes be fleeting, Willy Nilly, and capricious but the presence on the Fediverse also opens up steadier outlets and further cross-promotion.
There’s a lot of WordPress ‘pieces’ that are fantastic for building out a really awesome, highly functional website. But each of those pieces can be absolutely daunting to implement and maintain.
For instance, I’ve been playing around with something called WP2Static lately which is an amazing plugin from Leon Stafford that takes the output of a WordPress website and converts that to static HTML pages to be rendered by a cheaper web hosting account at blindingly fast speeds.
It’s a very impressive setup but you almost need to be a WordPress guru (Or Leon Stafford himself) to make it work initially. Pair that up with my ‘Box’ concept though and toss in a Guided WP account and you have that guru ‘on staff’ and the WP2Static preconfigured when you spec out and order the ‘Box’.
I’ll be coming back here over the next several months and expanding this article but this was to give you an idea of the possibilities.
IPFS! I’m thinking an IPFS server is a pretty darn good idea for storing images and some of those static pieces of a website. I’m already using that some for images pertaining to my reading list/book suggestion posts.
Right now I’m using a manual method with the IPFS companion browser extension to save those images.
It sure would be nice to be able to store media images over there from the WordPress media library.Â
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About the Author… Jeff Hawkins is an active WordPress developer and entrepreneur who writes about his adventures when he’s not busy being a grandfather and a WordPress Support Volunteer!
Mr. Hawkins can sometimes be found espousing his theories as facts on various outlets including Quora.com.
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One thing I’ve realized from finally having the time to catch up on my media queue is how much of the joy of travel comes from anticipating it, the sweet spot between the moment you find out about a place and decide to start planning a visit and your actual departure—all the dreamin...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
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Three years ago, I sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Town, South Africa, to Martinique, in the Caribbean. I was aboard Saltbreaker, a 32-foot 1979 Valiant sailboat, along with my husband, Alex, my brother-in-law, Nick, and his girlfriend, Alex. All told, the trip took about four m...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
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Those of us fortunate enough to be in a position to daydream about traveling when it’s safe to do so again may have seen some crazy-low ticket prices of late—from $400 round-trip flights to Japan, Iceland, and Norway to $200 fares to Hawaii. As airlines have essentially ground&...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
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62 Parks Traveler started with a simple goal: to visit every U.S. national park in one year. Avid backpacker and public-lands nerd Emily Pennington saved up, built out a tiny van to travel and live in, and hit the road. The parks as we know them are rapidly changing, and she want...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
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Everything fell apart at 2,500 feet. Julio, Alberto, Fernando, and I had spent the day skiing secluded Spanish peaks, carving easy turns into forgiving corn snow, and putting close to 14 miles on our ski legs. Climbing out of the high-alpine amphitheater, we watched airplane contrails crisscross the late-day horizon. A wet slide rumbled downhill in the distance. As you so often do in the mountains, we felt at once untouchable and insignificant.
As we rounded the corner to our exit ridge, texts that had been hanging in dead-zone service limbo came rushing forth on our phones, an onslaught of panic and confusion. The coronavirus had arrived in Spain a few weeks ago, but it caught up with us on the crest of the Valley of ValdeĂłn in the north-central part of the country. âWe lost Madrid,â murmured Julio, who, along with Alberto and Fernando, works as a professional mountain guide. Clients that were set to arrive from Spainâs capital city, fearing that they would be officially locked down within the next few days, were canceling their weekend clinic. The trio continued reading the bad news aloud. A group of Valencians who had booked months in advance had backed out as well. Summer tour groups were pulling the plugâfrom Spain, England, Germanyâone after the other. In the span of minutes, my group of new friends watched a third of their annual income evaporate. Julioâs impenetrable smile waned. The mountains that had seemed so invulnerable hours before were no longer a shelter from the worldâs terrifying new reality.
Numb, we chased the sun until it hit the last jagged outcroppings of limestone and gneiss. As it disappeared, we made our way down toward the dark unknown below.
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Despite the COVID-19 pandemic that’s led to international travel bans, shuttered schools, and other measures, the National Park Service (NPS) is continuing to operate, and crowds are turning out in droves. However, a number of parks have started to close visitor centers and various facili...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
from the book âAnything You Wantâ:
Whatâs your compass?
2011-07-02
Most people donât know why theyâre doing what theyâre doing. They imitate others, go with the flow, and follow paths without making their own.
They spend decades in pursuit of something that someone convinced them they should want, without realizing that it wonât make them happy.
Donât be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.
You need to know your personal philosophy of what makes you happy and whatâs worth doing.
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Derek Sivers from the book âAnything You Wantâ:
Ten years of experience in one hour
2011-07-01 From 1998 to 2008, I had this wild experience of starting a little hobby, accidentally growing it into a big business, and then selling it for $22 million. So now people want to hear my thoughts.
People ask me about that experience, so I tell stories about how it went for me. Many of them are about all the things I did wrong. I made some horrible mistakes.
People ask my advice on how to approach situations in their lives or businesses, so I explain how I approach things. But my approach is just one way, and I could argue against it as well.
Iâm (Mike of Military Backpack Guide) a former US Marine and IRAQ veteran, and this is my list of the absolute best survival books.  Books you can learn from, and live by. The problem is that there are a ton of books about survival but lots of them are, well, junk.  Not junk in the sense that the author didnât try, just more like books that tend to be a compilation of other books, original works that have been consumed and regurgitated, and every other ânot that greatâ reference in between. Thatâs one of the reasons why this is the âtop 7â and not âtop 10â.  I refuse to stuff this thing with unnecessary entries just to make a number.  This is officially  the best collection of survival books this side of Marsâ neatly organized, and updated for 2015.  Of course, if youâre not a book learner, there are plenty of survival schools throughout the world too.
Source: Best Survival Books – 7 Titles Handpicked by a US Marine
Not everyone’s a Navy Seal or an Eagle Scout. So for those who haven’t received hands-on training in survival skills, studying a quality survival manual is your next best option. Whether you have a full library of self-preservation books, or you are looking to buy your first survival guide, check out our some of our favorite titles.
Source: The 15 Best Survival Books Ever Written | Outdoor Life
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A few years ago, Ben Leoni and Lindsay Bourgoine moved from Portland, Maine, to Boulder, Colorado. They relocated for work and also a lifestyle change. Both skiers, they wanted to be closer to the mountains and spend their time off doing what they love. Leoni recently started a new job as ...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
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The backstory…
I was checking something out on my own website when I discovered my cron tasks were not running properly. I actually had some cron tasks from back when I first re-started this blog that hadn’t run yet. A little tiny tweak needed here and there and some major deleting work of crontasks that never needed to run now.
It’s starting to right itself.
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Last week while waiting outside an airport in the central highlands of Afghanistan, I spotted something worrisome. Armored vehicles equipped with 50-caliber rifles were guarding intersections, and masked men were eyeing passing cars suspiciously. But sadly that’s just Monday in Afghanista...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
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There’s a tarantula creeping up the mesh door of our tent. It’s black, furry, and the size of a tennis ball. These light brown Baja species are relatively harmless, their venom only slightly more powerful than a bee sting. But it looks intimidating, especially since we’re in the mi...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
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62 Parks Traveler started with a simple goal: to visit every U.S. national park in one year. Avid backpacker and public-lands nerd Emily Pennington saved up, built out a tiny van to travel and live in, and hit the road. The parks as we know them are rapidly changing, and she want...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
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It doesn’t matter where I am in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park—standing at the Kilauea Iki overlook, which has views of a mile-long crater, peering into steam vents along the edge of Kilauea Crater, holding my breath at the sulphur banks along the Haakulamanu Trail—the in...Read More - Source: Outside Magazine: Travel
