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The Gift of Shelby Mae…
As I sit in my office with 954 emails in my inbox, 71 unread text messages, and countless tweets and Facebook messages that are unanswered I keep asking myself where do I even start. One one hand I am totally ready to get dive back into my daily role at Pleth with both feet but [...]
Pregnancy: Update at 17 Weeks
Yesterday was a huge day for Donna and I in that we found out what we are having. In my mind I already knew that we were having a little girl but just needed to hear it from someone wearing scrubs or a lab coat to believe it. Needless to say we are both so [...]
Powersite Real Estate CMS (Deprecated)
It doesn’t seem like that long ago that it seemed like a practical idea to hand code custom solutions for clients using PHP/MySQL from scratch or onto of light frameworks as opposed to just extending CMS (Content Management Solutions), but in reality it has been a long time and I’m just getting old. Several years [...]
Shop the Arkansas Dream Center Mall
I have had several people ask me how they can get involved w/ helping needy Children in Central Arkansas have a Merry Christmas. Of course I always point everyone to our website at The One, Inc., where we are currently helping roundup coats for several hundred kids that need them. Something else Donna and I [...]
Wimpy’s Combos – Photoshoot
I met our manager, Greg, at Wimpy’s this morning to take some high-resolution photos for use on our new menuboards. I was a bit concerned how everything was going to turn out because a) it was 7am and I’m not alert until 11am or so, and b) I haven’t shot anything w/ my Pentax K100d [...]
Support the Arkansas Dream Center
I have people ask me all the time how they can get involved or support our non-profit, The One, Inc., or The Arkansas Dream Center. The truth is that there are hundreds of ways you can help out, the best way is to visit both of the websites for these organizations because they both have [...]
Facebook Acquires Gowalla…
The story was broken this evening on CNNMoney that Facebook had purchased Gowalla, I actually got a heads up this morning that this might be going down soon. I’m pretty mixed on this. It’s no great secret that I was a huge Gowalla fan in the early days of location based services and geosocial but [...]
Pregnancy: Update at 16 Weeks
This has by far been the best week of our pregnancy for me because I am finally starting to relax a little bit. I’m not following my wife into the women’s restroom while we are out in public to make sure everything is okay (okay, I haven’t actually done that but I was close a [...]
Pregnancy: Update at 14 Weeks
This past week has probably been the most stressful week so far during our pregnancy. I have had to take Donna to the Emergency Room two nights in a row because she couldn’t urinate. This has been the weirdest thing in that she has no problems at all going during the day but in the [...]
Thoughts on Joe Paterno
Update: 11/10/11 10:30am – The more I am learning about this case, and after having read the grand jury testimony in the Sandusky case, I’m starting to look at this entire thing a little differently. I really want to believe that Joe Pa didn’t do anything wrong, or try to cover up / do the [...]
Pregnancy: Thoughts at Week 12
Given our past problems w/ miscarriage early in our 3 past pregnancies, making it to the end of our first trimester (week 12) is a goal that my wife and I were really looking forward to because everything we have read on the topic says that the risk of miscarriage drops dramatically after the first [...]
Movie Review: Courageous
The other night for “date night” I took my wife to see ‘Courageous‘ after a close friend, Lynn Wheeler, recommended we see it. I’m just going to say it now, this was probably the most moving film I have seen in a long time. The entire theater was packed w/ people who by the end [...]
Houston Nutt: Deja Vu in Oxford
This past weekend my wife and I rendezvoused w/ my parents at the farm and headed to Oxford, Mississippi bright and early Saturday morning to see the Razorbacks do battle w/ the Ole Miss Rebels. Needless to say we went thinking that we were going to quickly do work on the Rebels. That simply wasn’t [...]
Breaking News: We’re Having a Baby!!!
It’s no secret that my wife and I have wanted to have children for a long time now. Having tried on our own for the better part of our 6 year marriage and enduring months of expensive fertility treatments, out of pocket surgeries, and three painful miscarriages we had decided to pursue another route recently [...]
My Ongoing Battle w/ ADHD
In honor of ADHD awareness week (more)I thought I would do this post for those that may know very little about Attention Deficit Disorder. Over the years I have been very public about the fact that I have ADHD. This is something we didn’t discover until I was in my late 20′s / early thirties [...]
New Caricature! What do you think?
My friend, Tim Langley at YouBlether.com, floored me this morning when he sent this caricature of me over Skype this morning! What an awesome job! The inside joke on this is that I rarely ever wear a tie, it takes someone usually either dying or getting married for me to put on a tie. My [...]
Thoughts on Dan Wheldon
As far as motorsports go I’ve never been as big of an Indy Car fan as I am a NASCAR fan for obvious reasons, but I do have a few drivers in the Indy league that I have always liked and admired, Dan Wheldon was one. I wasn’t home watching the race today like I [...]
Thoughts on “Operation Delta Blues”
I have had a few people ask me recently what happened in my hometown of Helena-West Helena that brought national news attention, especially since my interview this week on Fox16 News. Operation Delta Blues, as it was titled by the United States Attorney Generals Office, consisted of simultaneous raids on 70+ individuals that were carried [...]
Fox16 – Operation Delta Blues (Updated)
The other night I couldn’t sleep because of a neck injury so I wandered into my office in the middle of the night and started reading some of the news stories from earlier in the day where Operation Delta Blues went down in my hometown was one of the largest drug and racketeering cases ever [...]
Rant: Innovation -vs- What Works
I tweeted something today that had been on my mind for a few weeks: The reasoning behind the tweet was a culmination of things lately that have really had me scratching my head. The first being Facebook’s latest upgrade. If you haven’t noticed the level of interaction on Facebook drop since this upgrade you should [...]
RIP Steve Jobs
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are usually the ones that do… Steve Jobs, died on October 5 aged 56, was the visionary co-founder, and later chief executive, of Apple, makers of the Macintosh computer, the iMac, the iPod, iPad, and iPhone, and the man behind the astonishing [...]
Apple Whois Information
I saw a tweet today talking about why Apple’s website was down. Someone checked their whois and this is what was found: Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information
Launched: Shane Henry & Associates
Today I launched a project for my friend Shane Henry. Shane has a law firm here in Conway and specializes in Social Security / Disability, Adoption, Business Law, Estate Planning, and several other services. Shane’s website was built upon WordPress and uses the Genesis Framework. Click on the screenshot above to visit Shane’s website… Related [...]
Houston, We Have Another Problem…
Yeah, I’ll be the first to admit I still hold an unhealthy grudge toward Houston Nutt for a host of obvious reasons and I delight in watching his football world fall apart. This week I read a post by Aaron Torres where he went into great detail as to why this year will likely be [...]
The Toadsuck Toe Sucker!
Hide your kids, Hide your wife, Hide your husbands, because they are sucking everybody’s toes up in here! I would be remiss if I let every media publication in the country, from Gawker to the Daily Show, weigh-in on this whacky story originating from right here in my hometown, Conway, Arkansas. What’s the story you [...]
Social Media Ministry Management Tips
I recently was asked to assist with the management of social media for one of the fastest growing churches in the United States. I am still in the discovery process of what all social media strategies and presences they have in place right now but it hasn’t taken me long to figure out that they [...]
Facebook’s Public Figure Limitations
I have been talking with some people lately that are considered “Public Figures” on Facebook because they have reached that magic number over 5000 friends and were forced to either stop taking friend requests or to convert their profiles over to “Public Figures”. Let me start out by saying that for most people that fall [...]
What Advice Do You Have For Teens Concerning Social Media?
A while back I was asked by a good friend who is in leadership at a church in Little Rock to come speak to his youth group about social media. I am real excited about this opportunity because this is one of those rare occasions where what I do professionally intersects somewhat with my personal [...]
Exciting Enhancements for Gowalla
It’s not a big secret that I am a Gowalla fan-boy, have been for a long time now. I see the value of geosocial as an industry insider and a business owner, companies like Gowalla and Foursquare have been leading this charge along with Facebook, who recently announced they were dropping their emphasis on Places, [...]
Thoughts on Influence Marketing
Brands have used “influencers” for as long as I can remember to promote their products, just think back a few years to when Michael Jordan was at the top of his game and quite possibly the most popular athlete in the world, Nike signed him to a contract to endorse their brand and to release [...]
Remembering 9/11
Just like many of you, I won’t ever forget where I was on 9/11. I was in Fairfield Bay, Arkansas watching CNN in my office as the second plane flew into the World Trade Center. I can remember the very moment the second plane crashed into the building right there on my television screen coming [...]
Memphis Heat: The Story of Memphis Wrasslin’
Growing up in the mid-south during the 70′s and 80′s, every kid I knew was glued to Memphis Wrestling every Saturday morning at 11am on WMC-TV5. I can vividly remember sitting in the floor with my dad watching Jerry Lawler do battle with bad guys like The Dream Machine, Austin Idol, Handsome Jimmy Valiant or [...]
Consider Partnering w/ The One, Inc.
I am one of the co-founders and board members for The One, Inc., we operate The Van that has been featured on K-LOVE radio, Sync Weekly, and just about every television and radio station in Central Arkansas. Our primary focus is outreach and support through demonstration of Christ’s love to those in dire need of [...]
Arkansas Adoption Solutions (Beta)
A while back I blogged that I was working on a side project w/ attorney and friend, Shane Henry, called My Arkansas Adoption. The purpose for this project is primarily to provide resources to birth mothers who might be considering adoption and to recruit adoptive parents, like my wife and I, a resource to connect [...]
WordPress Menu Support for Older Themes
As a lot of you that are die-hard WordPress users are probably already aware, WordPress has launched their new menu builders under the appearance tab. The menu builder will allow you to create a menu from any categories, pages and links, order them by drag and drop, create submenus, etc. This is something that I [...]
Homeless Children Go Shopping!
“Then the king will say to those bad people on his left, ‘Go away from me. God has already decided that you will be punished. Go into the fire that burns forever. That fire was prepared for the devil and his angels. You must go away, because I was hungry, and you gave me nothing [...]
Arkansas Urban Legend / History Lesson
I know this isn’t my typical type of blog post but today there was a discussion in one of those hometown Facebook groups about something in my hometown, Helena, Arkansas, that I happened to know a little bit about so I joined in. This discussion concerned a tombstone that is in one of my hometown’s [...]
Mac Outlook 2011 Calendar Sync Issue w/ iPhone
Okay, here’s the bottom line. If you own a Mac and use Microsoft’s Outlook to manage your calendar, it will not synchronize w/ your iPhone or iPad, period, and Microsoft has know about the issue since last year! This is why I am furious, and become more angry each day! My nightmare started several months [...]
EP:024 – The Cotton Club Podcast
After a brief hiatus The Cotton Club was back online this evening w/ Keith Crawford, Tyler Presley, Steven Trotter, Chris Spencer, and Mike Fraietta to discuss Google+. Being that Google+ is fairly new, this was the first chance for me to really connect w/ some of my friends to get their take on the new [...]
EP:023 – The Cotton Club Podcast
This evening I had the opportunity to chat w/ Keith Crawford, Steven Trotter, and Christopher Spencer about this years Wordcamp Fayetteville. During the show Chris, who is heading up the event, went over the 4 tracks for the event as well as touching on some of the content that would be covered this year. As [...]
My #WCFAY Presentation Slides
WordPress Profitability for Agencies, Firms, and Freelancers View more presentations from Cotton Rohrscheib FYI, the formatting is not good in these slides for some reason… Most Commented PostsMarch 14, 2011 -- Large Tech Conference in Conway? (39)November 4, 2010 -- Operation Hiney on the Highway (38)February 1, 2010 -- #RefreshCA Geo-Social Showdown (26)June 14, 2010 [...]
Thoughts on Google+
I have had a Google+ account for a while now and aside from a few chat sessions, or hangouts, the week it was launched, I pretty much just got around to checking it out this evening. I must say I am pretty impressed so far w/ the level of engagement I see as well as [...]
Presentation Preview for #WCFay
I will be doing a presentation titled ‘Making WordPress Profitable for Agencies / Design Firms‘ during Wordcamp Fayetteville this year, which is taking place on July 30, 2011 in Fayetteville, at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development. If you haven’t registered already, there is still time, the price for general admission is $35 [...]
Current Projects: Rosewood Cremations
We completed a project for Rosewood Classic Coach a few months ago and they were so happy w/ the way the project turned out they asked us to take a look at their Rosewood Cremation website and convert it to WordPress for them. In addition they also wanted to add a small amount of e-commerce [...]
Current Projects: Detco, Inc.
I was recently contacted by long-time client, Detco Industries, Inc. about developing two small projects for them. Each of these micro websites will contain product information such as MSDS, TDS, and DTS (product label) information. In the future they also wanted to ability to post additional information about their products such as YouTube videos, etc. [...]
DNA Evidence Clears WM3!
A few years ago I spent the better part of a weekend researching the 1993 murder convictions of Damien, Jason, and Jessie and after everything I was able to gather online I left w/ the impression that these kids were wrongfully convicted. Not only did I walk away thinking they were innocent but I also [...]
Current Projects: Arkansas Adoption
This is a project that my wife and I are partnering with a local attorney, Shane Henry, to bring online that serves as a tool to recruit pregnant mothers that might be looking to either have an abortion or put their children up for adoption. Please be in prayer w/ Donna and I that we [...]
Current Projects: The One, Inc.
Many of you that know me are probably already aware that I am a founding member of The One, Inc. and serve on the board of directors. In case you are not familiar w/ The One, Inc. and what we do, we are a 501c3 non-profit organization servicing the needs of the growing homeless community [...]
Removing WordPress Pharma Hack
I posted a few weeks ago about the WordPress Pharma Hack that has been running pretty rampant across the web, in case you missed my initial post, here’s a link. Well, I would like to say that we were able to jump right on this thing and immediately remove it pretty easily, but that simply [...]
Experimental Video for Wimpy’s
I have bought two cameras recently and invested in a small collection of video production software to familiarize myself w/ video production. This is definitely not something I want to do professionally but I am enjoying learning everything as I go along. This is an experimental video I put together using iMovie. For a total [...]
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