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I'm struggling for a blog post at the moment, I'm tempted to write a story of fiction, but I don't have an idea upon which to base the story on. I could possibly write an instructional post about WordPress, or the Genesis Framework, share an idea about a blog that I would like to investigate, or I could write about some aspect from the recent news and share my thoughts about how I believe it is … [Continue reading...]

Itsonlybarney.com Version 1

You will have noticed that I have been yearning to updated the look here on the blog for a few weeks now, and I am getting closer to that stage where I am ready to launch a new theme.  As part of launching a new theme, I am open to releasing the previous version here via the blog. For those of you interested in seeing how to setup the bookmarks page of the site, and the Genesis code and CSS I … [Continue reading...]

Weekend Away

I don't want to the do the cliche blogging thing of posting an apology post about not blogging, and I am doing my best not to be that kind of blogger. This last weekend my wife and I chose to spend some time away from home and have a long weekend getaway up the coast to visit some friends of ours. Unfortunately the weather wasn't anywhere as kind as we had hoped that it would be. The main … [Continue reading...]

How to Build the Muscle of Change

I really wasn't inspired to write anything for today's post, but this post by Leo Babauta of ZenHabits has written a great article about applying change to your life, and how to go about it. When you try to make a change in your life, create a new habit, set a resolution … are you usually good at it, or does the change fail after 2-3 weeks? Some people are better at it than others because … [Continue reading...]

Basic Minimalism

Basic Minimalism is a minimalist theme built as a child theme on the Genesis Framework. As the site currently stands, I am working using multiple Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) so that I can focus on one aspect of the site at a time, whether it be the column layouts, typography or styling of elements, I can focus on just those elements rather than working around the other CSS aspects as well. The … [Continue reading...]

Life Dreams

Do you know how some people share with you that if they could give up their day job and do anything in the world, they would do X, Y, Z?  Do you have that something that you want to do for the rest of your life if money wasn't an issue? Well I don't have one!  Obviously I am one of a kind that doesn't have some ultimate goal in their life.  Does that mean I am broken?  It certainly feels like … [Continue reading...]