Ancestor Animation, part 4: Looking out for their own
I can’t remember my Gramma Leta Bertram ever telling me a story about her past, her parents or her sisters.
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Ancestor animation, part 3: The fateful importance of grandparents
This is the only photo I have of my paternal grandfather’s parents, Robert August Bertram and Flona Agnes (“Aggie”) Murphey, together. They look like a fairly sedate older couple, though the light reflecting off their glasses makes their faces hard to read. Yet their meeting was just as unlikely, and required as much daring, as...
Ancestor Animation, part 2: “Mama was a Yankee, and Daddy was a Rebel”
The proud young parents in this photo most likely would never have met were it not for a specific piece of Federal legislation.
Ancestor Animation, part 1: Inevitable
William and Lizzie were destined to meet.
Footnotes in WordPress
I wanted to display notes on the text as tooltips, and I wanted to include links to sources within the tooltip. It took some doing.
A Strange Object of Nostalgia
In the mid-1990s, I spent some time temping as a legal document coder. Those were the days when it was so expensive to scan and OCR documents that it was cheaper to hire armies of temps to read documents and type the names in those documents into a database optimized for searching names. One of...
The Bridges of Hennepin County
Much of the work I do for ADV Document Systems is for private companies and therefore not something I can share, but here’s an exception: Electronic Document Information GUI Search (eDIGS), a website that gives access to maps, permits and other public records at the Minnesota Department of Transportation. It is the successor to a...
Shortcode for phpinfo
It’s been quite a while since I posted anything on the IT side. Today I’ve been doing some troubleshooting, trying to figure out why I can get the latest version of WordPress installed on a development site but not on the live site. One useful bit of information is, what version of PHP is the...
Adding a picture caption in WordPress
For a bit of variety… Spelling out this process step-by-step both to note it down for myself and in case anyone else out there could use this level of detail. On this blog, I’m using the Twentyfifteen theme. I’ve installed the Jetpack plugin, which includes the template for the Portfolio. This is how my portfolio...