Archive for March, 2007
"Why upgrade to Vista when you can upgrade past it?" — Apple makes a great point and after my weekend experiences with Vista, I’m of the opinion that no first-time-user should ever have to deal with it. #
".. pledges to bring you only high quality scanned images of instruction manuals in their full, original format with all original artwork and other graphical elements intact." — these guys are indepensible for abandonware (and recent) game manuals. #
"Urey will be able to detect key molecules associated with life at a sensitivity roughly a million times greater than previous instrumentation." — should we find life’s building blocks elsewhere, it will be a defining moment in how we view the universe.
"Macintosh computers appear to be making market-share gains in the home, opening the door to similar success in the enterprise." - aka how to make any system admin happy.
If you happened to notice odd on-off-on-off formatting changes to the foo’s remaindered links, you weren’t actually seeing things.
You see, there’s yet another safety feature in wordpress 2.1. That being the ubiquitous add_filter, via the kses.php sitting in wp-includes. Allow me a moment to set-the-scene, as it were, so you have at least some reference point:
I have a handy (and somewhat hacked) php script that pulls in del.icio.us links and injects them as entries. It parses the RSS feed, generates a snazzy (and pre-formatted) array and injects each bookmark as an entry. I even parse in the associated del.icio.us tags to map as entry tags.
And it all works remarkably well — submit a bookmark to del.icio.us and the script takes care of the rest. Until one uses curl, or wget.
"Peter Jackson, known as the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, has agreed to work with Microsoft to help create two different episodic gaming series for the Xbox 360." - hands up those who think this is a *good* thing.
My good buddy Derek over at 5thirtyone says "I’ve thrown together this simple tutorial on how-to style author comments under WordPress without the need for extraneous plugins."
After some careful consideration, it was time to jettison the previous design, in favour of something far more simple, clear and uncluttered.
If the design looks familiar, it’s probably because I covet John Gruber’s daring fireball and have been strongly influenced by his aesthetically pleasing approach.
There’s one thing that, possibly, peeves me off more than, well, anything else. That moment where you read a staggeringly assumptive article that simultaneously states the obvious, yet misses the point entirely.
I have a penchant for knowing - just, well, knowing - when a blog or website is powered by Wordpress. You know? Way too many links in the sidebar or header, usually styled the same way? Info all over the place? A candidly modified Kubrick theme? Referring to static pages as, omigod, Pages? #
Latest Entries
Archives
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
In partnership with (mt).
