I created the Unofficial WP Car Talk Staff widget (and associated WordPress plugin) to show off some of the 500+ names collected in the Car Talk‚Ñ¢ staff listing. You can easily browse through the listing at CarTalk.com but this plugin allows you to have one or more randomly selected names placed on your sidebar or inserted into a post. A pointless but fun addition to any web site.

[For: Anyone Using Mac OS X]
In this tip I’m going to show you a couple of simple ways to modify items on your Mac menu bar (that collection of icons along the upper right-hand edge of your screen).

This is a Mac Dashboard widget I whipped up for the members of the Genesee Valley SAS Users Group as part of their revised site design. It’s pretty straightforward and uses a few custom graphics I created to mimic the appearance of a small SAS‚Ñ¢ (Cary, NC) log window.

Ponca City, Oklahoma – where my aunt and uncle currently live – was founded during the land runs of the 1890s and developed rapidly with the influx of oil boom money in the decades that followed.