Ahoy! It’s time fer Talk Like a Pirate Day again! Don’t forget t' install me Text Filter Suite Plugin if ye want t' get yer WordPress blog into th' action.
There’s only one week left until Talk Like a Pirate Day! If you haven’t already downloaded my Text Filter Suite, which contains the awesome tfs-pirate filter, then you’d better hop to it! What’s that? You want to know what it does? It turns your blog into pirate-speak on Talk Like a Pirate Day! Well, it does some other stuff, too, but we’re mostly concerned with the piratey bits here.
For example, if you typed this:
I was driving to my girlfriend’s house the other day, and some guy cut me off and almost ran my car off the road! I hate when people do stupid things like that. [...]
I know, I know… I haven’t been very active on the blogging front lately. Once again I’ve been sucked into a swirling vortex of job and home projects, with little-to-no time for participating in blogdom. I’ve managed to keep up with most of the latest memes, and I’ve added a few new del.icio.us bookmarks, but there’s been no opportunity to develop any nifty code or write about the subject of the day.
I’ve got eight draft posts in my queue, and three of those are no longer timely, and so I’ll probably end up deleting them. [...]
function do_stuff() {
if (in_array($date, $holidays) && $vacation == true) {
travel('away');
visit_family();
$gifts->exchange();
eat();
travel('home');
}
if ($new_year == true) {
eat() && drink();
$weight++;
$sleep = false;
}
$slack = false;
$resolve++;
$work->resume();
return(true);
}
Goblin Dougal
Halloween has snuck up on the Campbell household. It’s not like we’re unprepared — we have bags of candy and the kids have costumes. But I just can’t believe that it’s the end of October already. I spent the last couple of weeks under some tight deadlines at work, and lost track of time.
I had hoped to dress my site up as I’ve done a couple of times in the past, but I just never had time to work on a stylesheet for the holiday. [...]
Talk Like a Pirate Day is next Monday (September 19), less than a week away. Dust off your eyepatch, dig up that gold hoop earring, and practice growling, “walk the plank!” And while you’re at it, don’t forget to make sure that you have my Text Filter Suite plugin installed on your WordPress blog, and activate your Pirate filter!
Speaking of which, if you have an old version of the filters, you should download the new version. The tfs-core.php file is now version 1.1, is compatible with WordPress 1.5, and has been renamed to zzz-tfs-core.php (this forces it to load after the other filters, so it will be able to detect their functions correctly). [...]
International Delete Your MySpace Account Day
I just found out that January 30th is International Delete Your MySpace Account Day. What an awesome birthday present — I’m there, dude!
The only reason I even have a MySpace account in the first place is because at my last job, we needed to test how to format our video player embed code on MySpace. [...]