I’m sick again. So is Susan. It seems like this illness just keeps going in circles through our family. First the kids had it, then Susan, then me, then the kids got sick again, now we’re sick again… It’s like a recursive function that hasn’t met its exit condition yet. Somebody make it stop! All of this while we’re still trying to get the rest of our stuff moved out of the old house and … Continue reading
There’s only one week left in the WordPress 1.5 Themes Competition. You might want to start on the Submitting a Theme page for a good overview of the rules and some good guidelines. I’ve seen several outstanding entries so far (out of 48 submitted!). And for more sweet, gooey, themey goodness, check out this list of over 115 WordPress 1.5 themes!
Early in the development of the “themes” support in WordPress, I bugged Ryan Boren for a “preview” feature. Instead, he wrote a Theme Switcher Plugin, which wasn’t what I wanted (but was still a cool thing to have). Now, he’s finally written a Theme Preview Plugin. The thing is, I had already given up on him and written my own, weeks ago. I just never got around to documenting it and writing it up. Differences: … Continue reading
Bleah. I’ve been sick for about a week or so now. I thought that I was fighting it off okay until a few days ago. On Tuesday night, my throat was sore, and my nose was particularly stuffy. Which resulted in very little sleep. So I woke up feeling like death on a cracker. A stale cracker. A stale cracker that’s one of the last in the package, so it’s all broken and crumbly. Anyhow, … Continue reading
The popular weblog update tracking service, blo.gs, has recently announced that it is up for sale. The sale announcement notes that the site currently operates at about a $20/month loss, which doesn’t sound bad at all. I wonder why it’s up for an outright sale, rather than attempting to add more revenue? Anyhow, blo.gs is a very useful service. I use it myself just about every day. Hopefully, someone will step up to take it … Continue reading
After months (and months, and months) on hiatus, GeoURL.org has returned. The service is now run by Ask Bjørn Hansen. It appears that it’s been back up for about a week, and they’re still kicking out some kinks. Once the dust settles, we’ll add it back to Ping-O-Matic.
Stuff I’ve done since Friday: Panicked over some last-minute problems in testing the software we were getting ready to release. Visited some friends for a Pampered Chef party. Found out that the previously mentioned software problems were only due to issues on the test computer. No real problem here. Yay. Bought supplies to refinish some furniture. Ate a really, really good homemade meal (my wife rocks). Yum. Confirmed that our new baby will be a … Continue reading
Mark over at WeblogToolsCollection has come up with another great WordPress plugin for combatting blog comment spam: Blacklist Peering Plugin. My existing greylist and my growing blacklist are doing a pretty good job of keeping the junk out of sight so far. I’m looking forward to adding this plugin to my arsenal. Together, we can tighten the noose even more.
Since I occassionally dabble with graphics and web design, I tend to collect fonts. But I’m just a hobbiest, not a professional designer, so I usually can’t justify purchasing professional font sets. So I bookmark the occassional “free fonts” website. Which is why I’m glad I found out about FontLeech: The Free Font Blog. Hey, look — it’s powered by WordPress. Awesome. 🙂
The Zen of CSS Design Congrats to Dave Shea, whose CSS Zen Garden web site has demonstrated the benefits of CSS-based design so much better than any verbal explanation could. His efforts, and those of many Garden contributors are now detailed in a book, The Zen of CSS Design. Update 2005-03-04: Flog me thrice for neglecting to mention that Molly Holzschlag is the co-author of this book.