I got bored tonight and decided to try my hand at modifying a simple but noticeable WordPress plugin. I made a copy of the Hello Dolly plugin and changed the lyrics from those of “Hello, Dolly” by Luis Armstrong to those of “Guilty Conscience” by Dr. Dre and Eminem (on the Chronic 2001 album).
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WordPress 2.5 was released yesterday. I spent all day backing up my sites today and upgrading my base install to the new version. I was already running version 2.4-bleeding (the development version), but there were a couple of minor tweaks in the release that improved the admin interface, so I acted quick to get the [...]
That’s right - it has been only a few weeks of tinkering with my site I have come to the realization that I bet on the wrong horse. As my friend Dan kindly reminded me tonight, this happens often. Admittedly, I do get excited about a new method I stumble across on the [...]
It surprises me that MySpace is now a mandatory thing. If you want to be friends with someone these days, you have to have a MySpace account. If not, you miss out on gossip, you never get invited anywhere, and it takes years to see those pictures your friend took last weekend with their camera [...]
(UPDATE: Thanks to the Virtual Mutliblog plugin, I have combined my tumblelog with my main blog, and now use the same theme for both as well. The original theme is no longer available for download as I will no longer be maintaining it for my own uses.)
When I decided to make a tumblelog, I spent [...]
Tumblelogs are a wonderful idea for anyone who: A) can’t write decent content to save their lives; or, B) want to keep a personal web history with notes (or not) in a blog format. I fall into the latter category - I keep a blog (and this one) for my well formulated ideas that [...]
Most everyone today who uses the Internet has occasion to view, take, or edit a digital photo (or ten thousand) from time to time. For those of us who take online productivity to the next level, online photo management is an invaluable tool. Uploading your latest set of photos to a website like [...]
UPDATE: I ditched the Tasteful theme I developed to originally power this blog. Therefore, I am no longer offering it for download as I will not be maintaining it.
The ubiquitous large and usually pretty header image is far from rare in the realm of free WordPress themes. In fact, they are pretty common these [...]
I have been an active blogger for nearly a year now. In my time in this arena I have had many good adventures as well as a fair share of nightmares. In my struggles to find that happy medium between blogging functionality and design uniqueness, I have explored several avenues and always came [...]