I’ve created my own WordPress Theme (coinciding nicely with the 2.3.2 upgrade). When I kissed RapidWeaver goodbye, and re-familiarized myself with WordPress, I didn’t want to spend time customizing a web site design…I just wanted to fix the problem of me not posting very often. I discovered the Ideal Website theme – which is pretty [...]
Posted in Design, Development on Monday, December 31st, 2007
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I’ve been procrastinating updating my site for a while: noodling with layout ideas; thinking about whether I should rework abouthalf.com to be simply a portfolio site (since most of my blogging takes place on Blueplate Bachelor nowadays anyway) or setting up a sub-domain for my professional activities; and how to handle putting up snapshots and [...]
Posted in Design on Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20071227_BHUTTO_FEATURE/index.html Photos of the Bhutto assassination with voice commentary by the photographer, John Moore.
Posted in Things on Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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This is a handy little item: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628.aspx The “Mark of the web” is a specially formatted html comment which resides at the top of an HTML document, just below the DOCTYPE declaration. It might look like this: <!– saved from url=(0023)http://www.contoso.com/ –> The “Mark of Zorro the web” tells Internet Explorer 7 (and IE 6 [...]
Posted in Development on Sunday, December 9th, 2007
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Thanksgiving Dinner was a success this year. We had the opportunity to have dinner with just friends, with family scattered away from us doing other things. (I think we should institute a Thanksgiving-esque holiday where you get some time off work, have a big meal, but only invite friends over for drama free food and [...]
Posted in Things on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
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(because iPhone + wikipedia = The standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom ) (because I just re-watched 2001 and 2010 and HAL is neato, Dave.)
Posted in Play on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
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