Luke Gedeon

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Clichés become cliché because they are used a lot.
They are used so frequently, most of the time, because they are true and helpful.
They never stop being true. They just stop being helpful because the brain tunes out repetition over time. If you take time to think about the real meaning behind the words, then [...]

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Prepositions are some of the shortest words in the English language, but they are also some of the most powerful. Swap out a few letters and you can change the whole meaning of the sentence.
For example, a popular song that has been going through my head lately, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” [...]

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Ever wondered how to find a blogging job? I have. Most of my work has found me… hunted me down, so I really never took the time to look. But, I ran into this list today and decided to share.
Problogger: Darren Rowse’s blog about blogging is one of the best places to find [...]

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I heard a story long ago about the invention of the depth charge. Supposedly they were inspired to make them by a suggestion to boil the ocean to get rid of U-boats. Obviously they could not boil the whole ocean, but with depth charges they were able to boil the parts of the [...]

A few weeks back I was hit with hundreds of really great comments from people using the names of friends who comment here frequently. The problem was that the URL associated with the comment pointed to sites I had never heard of.

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I have talked to a few of these friends and they were [...]

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A special thanks to the author(s) of hundreds of recent, well written and interesting comments.
But, who are you?
Over the last few weeks, hundreds of comments have poured in with helpful insights, humor, on topic questions, etc., but many of these comments are signed with names of people I know – people who have [...]

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It is time to upgrade again, but this time the upgrade is a breeze! WordPress 2.8 is loaded with bug-fixes and user interface improvements, but the basic interface elements have been preserved. The changes that have been made, just made the interface more consistent.
The best part of this upgrade is that it is [...]

I just discovered a real cool new plug-in. Guess it is the week for new plug-ins, huh?
The new plug-in is called, TinyMCE Advanced. With a name like that, I can just hear your excitement.
If you are like me, you probably skipped this one as you were digging through the thousands of available plug-ins. [...]

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I installed the CommentLuv plug-in yesterday. It seems to be working great so far.
Go ahead and test it.
Not sure what to comment about?
You could comment on this picture. Nice, isn’t it?
Or you could comment on a different recent or related post.
Can’t wait to hear from you.

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I mentioned recently that I posted a link to a really cool updater for WordPress a few months back. I posted it for one person, but it is one of my most commented posts because of people saying [...]

Thanks and a shout out to everyone who helped the Caring for China Center in Zemanta’s Blog for a Cause project!
We placed eighth, which for a small charity in a national competition is not too bad at all. The Zemanta blog gives the details.
Thank you to each of the people who posted and to those [...]

Robert Hruzek is the awesome! He offered to let me guest post on his blog, Middle Zone Musings, to try to get more help with the Blog for a Cause group writing project I am working on, and at least one other person has joined the project as a result, which is a big deal [...]

Writer’s Block – If you have never had it, you have never written. Real writers get writer’s block all the time. It really hurts and always seems to happen at the worst possible times.
But, there is a cure! Several actually, but I am only going to talk about one tonight. I call these descriptive acrostics.
The [...]

When I started blogging many years ago, I made a decision to make this blog as open, unmoderated and inclusive as possible. I have done everything I could think of to encourage comments. I even installed a plugin to make sure that if you include your web-address when you comment you will get a link [...]

Yesterday, I covered some of the benefits of repetition. Today let’s apply that to a topic near and dear to my heart, and hopefully to your’s too.
So why am I even talking about this?

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Well, on the web, it is easy to tell whether something has already been written. Go to your favorite search [...]

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Blogging has been a great experience, I have learned a lot from the people that have been kind enough to surround me. One of the people I have learned a lot from is Robert Hruzek.
Robert and his friends get together monthly to discuss learning experiences on a different topic each month. This month [...]

Caring for China (C4C) is a growing non-profit organization with a dream to change the world… or at least a piece of it. Like any other non-profit, we are dependent on donations from people like you, but…
Here is a chance to give to a great cause without it costing you a penny!
All we need is [...]

Have you ever had a conversation with someone who never stopped long enough to listen to your reply to the hundreds of questions and statements they threw at you? How about the other extreme – someone who will not give you more than a grunt in reply, even though you give them plenty of space [...]

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Yesterday, I asked for comments on splitting this blog into five parts. I would love to get feed-back on which topics are the most popular, and whether I am splitting it into too many categories. If everyone that is interested in topic x is also interested in topic z, then [...]

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So what is this blog all about?
Does anyone see a central theme? I don’t!
So, here is what I am thinking about. Wouldn’t it make sense to split this thing up a little bit?
WordPress lets you have different pages and RSS feeds for different categories. That way people who are interested [...]