What Cancer Can’t Do has actually been online for 17 months now, and has been long deserving of an introduction. It started out as an idea from a piece of paper that my Mom brought home from treatment. I had a hard time with everything about Mom having cancer, and sometimes found myself hopeless and needing something to lift my spirits. My ultimate hope was that someone else out there, even if just one soul, would find a little glimmer of hope in any of the quotes or scriptures that the site currently contains. The work put into the site, updating it and adding new quotes as I can find them, is worth every ounce of time that it takes, because while I was sure by watching the hits to the site that other’s might be finding some piece of benefit from their visit, finding the comment below on a blog with a link to the site confirmed it all.

A friend of mine (early 30′s) just had a mastectomy January 9th, & I shared this quote w/her, & w/tears & hope in her eyes she said “I’m going to read this all the time!”

It went on further after quoting the entire What Cancer Can’t Do quote and included a link to the site.

• Seller: Hi, it’s showing that u paid me, but you have a hold on the funds. I need the funds available to me so I can ship. Please release the hold so I can ship. Thanks
• Me: I’m not sure about a hold that you are referring to. I logged into my Paypal account and it shows no hold or anything. It just shows the payment to you as Completed. Is it showing that in eBay or PayPal? If you need to wait a few days for that to go away, I’m perfectly okay with that. I’ve never seen anything like it, and even though I do need the card asap, do what you need to do
• Seller: It is showing it in eBay. It showed the payment complete but it also has a negative transaction amount from you as if ur holding the payment. We can wait a day or 2 to see if it comes through. Or if there is a way you can cancel the payment and do it again maybe it will go right through. My only problem is I do all my Internet through my iPhone so I can’t print a shipping label from paypal. So that’s why I need the money to clear before I ship. Sorry for the inconvenience.
• Me: I made the payment with a CC, so there shouldn’t be a hold at all. But like I said, if you need to hold it, no problem man.
• Seller: Ok I talked to eBay support, and they said your account is holding the money till you leave me positive feed back. They also said there is no way for either of us to cancel the payment to bypass the hold. So that leaves us with 2 options we can leave each other positive feed back to release the fund and I’ll over night the card to you as soon as it’s released. Or I’m sorry to say but I’ll have to cancel the whole thing cause there is no way I can ship without the funds… Sorry let me know what u want to do.
• Me: Actually, let’s just cancel the whole thing. If you’ll refund my money through Paypal, I’ll pick one up from someone else. I’ve never heard of a hold, never had a hold placed, and especially eBay, eBay doesn’t have anything to do with payment, just Paypal.
• Seller: Yeah that’s fine I can cancel. But I can’t refund I don’t have access to it. Let me figure out how to do this. Oh and by the way I was on the phone with eBay support I don’t have a message. But as soon as I can find out how to cancel this and untie your money I will. Sorry for any inconvenience.
• Me: I’ve put in a claim with Paypal so that they can send my money back. I guess what I can do is just escalate it since you can’t really do anything with it, and they can get it done much faster. Thanks
• Seller: Well obviously you knew what you were doing, the hold was lifted and you took ur money back so thanks for waisting my time! Screw this whole eBay thing I’ll never be on here again!

Nice try buddy. I don’t know if things are just hard and for some people that justifies stealing in someone’s head, but it’s not right and never will be to steal someone’s money, no matter the circumstances.

On September 30th, 2011, an incorrect detection for PWS:Win32/Zbot was identified and as a result, Google Chrome was inadvertently blocked and in some cases removed from customers’ PCs. We have already fixed the issue — we released an updated signature (1.113.672.0) at 9:57 a.m. PDT — but approximately 3,000 customers were impacted. Affected customers should manually update Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) with the latest signatures. To do this, simply launch MSE, go to the update tab and click the Update button, and then reinstall Google Chrome. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused our customers.Microsoft

What do you know, we were one of the 3,000 here at work. The update did the trick, so now I can close out Firefox and IE again and get back to Chrome.

Some highlights:

• Minimal Design – The minimal design is meant to take away the visual distraction that some themes have, and put the content almost entirely on your post content.
• Threaded Comments – Threading the comment replies allow responses to be emphasized, rather than lost in amongst other replies.
• Menu Support – The menu underneath the title is the native WordPress menu feature, and falls back to listing your pages in ascending order.
• Background Settings – The background settings are the native WordPress feature, allowing you to change the background’s color or image.

Support, Demo and Download Info →

Shane Holden – Please keep my mom in your prayers. She starts chemo & radiation today for colon cancer. Thank you.

I officially hate the ‘On This Day In’ feature of Facebook now. Not to mention all of the other tweaks that they keep making. Reminds me of how often eBay has changed their site over the years.

The function below prevents images from being displayed in the post content when it’s placed in the functions.php file of your theme, and the_content(); is changed to the_content_no_images();

// REMOVE IMAGES FROM POST CONTENT DISPLAY
function the_content_no_images() {
$content = get_the_content('');
$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
$pattern = '/()/';
$replacements='';
$removed = preg_replace($pattern, $replacements, $content);
echo $removed;
}

For some reason, my blog is removing part of the code. But put < i m g . + ? > with the spaces removed inside the parenthesis in the $pattern

It isn’t without it’s imperfections, as the image is still technically in the post content and would be displayed in the feed (unless you change it to show Summary instead of Full text)—it’s just prevented from being displayed, which does the trick in my case.

Instapic is a fun theme styled after the popular Instagram, allowing you to mimic the features that Instagram offers (minus the photo filters), yet run the photo blog on your own.  Instapic features Google Map support, as well as a ‘like’ counter to keep up with what your followers most enjoy.

Instapic is my first WordPress theme that I’ve created to release.  It’s bound to need some fixes or have adjustments made, but as with all things, it’s got to start somewhere.  I’m really pleased with the functionality, and how the overall theme has turned out.

Some highlights:

• Google Map Support – The theme is coded to automatically display a map showing the location of the photo if the WP Geo plugin is installed and set up according to the settings mentioned.
• Like Counter – It also features automatic display of a like counter, if the I Like This plugin is installed.
• Threaded Comments – Although a maximum depth of 3 or less is recommended due to the layout, threaded comments are supported to allow the replies to be emphasized.
• Featured Image Use – The theme uses the featured image feature of WordPress to display the image.  This allows the post contents to be strictly text for the sidebar display.

Support, Demo and Download Info →

Here’s a look at the 8 artists that I’ve listened to the most over the past 2 years.