It’s been a long time coming, but my wife, Susan, finally has a WordPress blog. You can check it out at DigitalDivas.net. As you’ll see when you get there, It’s Pink! Susan spent a lot of time adapting some CSS techniques for her site, and I helped her turn her html code into a WP theme. I’m sure she’ll be posting on a variety of topics, from web design and technology, to current events, to … Continue reading
Over on waxy.org’s links, I found this list of Sesame Street videos on YouTube. Talk about bringing back some memories. I’ve always loved Capital I, and Atlanta band Rooke used to do a version of it that was just beautiful. Other favorites include Mahna Mahna, The Ladybug Picnic, C is for Cookie, I Love Trash, and The Martians (yepyepyep). Claire has been watching some Sesame Street, and I’m sure she would enjoy some of these … Continue reading
And now that I’ve helped out the rest of you who want to automatically generate posts from your del.icio.us bookmarks (with my daily post fixer plugin), I’m turning that feature off here. It was an interesting experiment, but I’ve decided that this isn’t how I want to present that information. Let’s examine the good and bad of the automatic link posts: Pros Generates more content for the blog Provides additional exposure for the pages that … Continue reading
I mentioned previously that I wanted to make a WordPress plugin that would touch up the posts created by the del.icio.us “daily blog post” feature. I’ve tinkered with it on-and-off, and finally realized what was preventing the addition of the rel=”tag” microformat (I forgot to double-escape some backslashes in a string). So, I present for your automated link posting pleasure, the del.icio.us daily blog post fixer plugin (.zip). The plugin serves two purposes: it lets … Continue reading
Make Celtic Knotwork I wish I had more time to play with artsy stuff like this. I love Celtic knot patterns. (tags: art design celticknotwork celtic knots howto) Processor Comparison Chart This could come in handy when trying to get a rough idea of how one processor/speed compares with a different one. (tags: hardware cpu reference chart computer comparison)
stu nicholls | CSS PLaY | cross browser multi page photo gallery Stu Nichols’ response to the Suckerfish HoverLightbox: a simple CSS-only (no javascript) photo gallery. (tags: css gallery photo image design web webdesign)
Emil Sit » WordPress ETag bug Geof, Alex, Scot, and I have been looking into this Conditional GET bug, but Emil found the culprit first. (tags: dougal_comments wordpress rss feeds conditionalget bugs)
Excerpt — Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised As a Man My wife and I have both been interested in reading this book since seeing the author interviewed on tv. (tags: books gender women men culture excerpt society)
Suckerfish HoverLightbox | Monday By Noon Great mashup of techniques to create a simple but elegant inline photo gallery. (tags: css javascript webdev web design suckerfish images gallery photos) Is there a “user’s manual for grownup life” out there somewhere? | Ask MetaFilter Susan and I just had a talk on this topic recently (again). We’re struggling to get a bunch of little projects completed, let alone some of the big ones that we need … Continue reading
Jeremy Zawodny has some thoughts about the possible evolution of Yahoo! Groups. There are bits of JotSpot (notable Tracker), WordPress, and Flickr that I think could be sprinkled into Yahoo Groups, not to mention Google Maps and/or Wayfaring, Yahoo! Local, Google Calendar, and a few other things. Jeremy is a sharp guy who keeps his finger close to the pulse of current happenings on the net. Yahoo! would do well to stay open to these … Continue reading