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I like to cook.  I like to blog.  And now, the twain have met.  Meet Daddy In The Kitchen (DITK).

I'm in love with this blog called Shady Characters by Keith Houston.  It delves into the history of punctuation marks, and the result is drama, political intruige, and passion.  Think The Da Vinci Code for the ampersand.

So, a lot of websites, including Wikipedia, are blacking themselves out today to protest SOPA.  Apparently someone has decided to take the protest one step further: instead of just imagining life without Wikipedia (because it's blacked out because of SOPA), some people are acting it out.  I'm seeing a bunch of Twitter hashtags for #factswithoutwikipedia.  Here's the best of the lot:

A new feature on Koplowicz.com: a "follow me" block.  It lists the 8 other places on the internet where I have a presence.  Below that is the "subscribe" box, where you can get updates from this site via email (thanks to Google).  Finally, there are the "sexy bookmarks" icons at the bottom of each post, with handy links to share it on Facebook, Twitter, or your other favorite social thingy.

This is all in preparation of bigger things to come.  Stay tuned.

What's new?  Oh my goodness, so many things I don't have time to talk about.  But I absolutely have to share this.  I spent all day trying to figure it out.  Congratulations, net wanderer, you get to benefit from my wisdom.

The task: Create a video gallery in Drupal.  The client wants multiple videos attached to a single node, with thumbnails.  When you click on a thumbnail, the video opens in a larger box on the same page.  The videos will either come from youtube or vimeo.

What you'll need:

Google just came out with their own version of the "Like" button.  I'm testing it on my website.  Please help me by clicking on the "+1" button.

This is Google's third or fourth attempt to chip away at Facebook.  Will it work?  Hard to say.  

I recently blogged about switching web hosts.  6 weeks into it, I'm still pretty happy with Hostgator, they're a lot more Drupal-friendly, even with the cheapest hosting package (which is cheaper than Powweb).  I've had a couple reliability issues, and they say that's what you get on a shared server, but Hostgator still advertises 99.99% uptime and I haven't been getting that in the past couple weeks.  And it freaked out a client, which is not cool.