Uploaded a few recent snaps. Some of the shots of The Dude playing office at my desk are priceless.
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
Holy cow that took *way* longer than it should have. Too many distractions during the upgrade I guess (having to resolve a Verizon billing dispute was probably the biggest unanticipated variable during the upgrade process).
Anyway, it’s like rolling around in a fresh set of sheets. Or playing with new guitar strings. I like it but can’t wait til it gets a bit more broken in.
What’s New:
- The layout. I lifted it from a wordpress templates site and replaced the graphics, tweaked the css, etc.
- The del.ico.us links. I hacked up some existing php scripts, put a unique index on the wp_posts table and setup a cron job. Now I should get a daily entry that gets updated throughout the day with del.icio.us linkage.
- The flickr stuff. I added some scripting to grab random pics from the public photos of WB contributors. Don’t see yours there? Well setup a flickr account and publish some photos.
- Misc tweaks. Improved the audioscrobbler script I wrote for better caching and limits to 1 track per wb author. Also massaged the netflix rss feed. Improved the archive navigation by adding a calendar. Basically just stuff that had been getting on my nerves for the past few months.
Update
Also, I installed a few more plugins. The “recently commented” gutter is a bit cooler now, i think. Also, WB users who are logged in when commenting will not have to wait for approval when they submit a comment that would typically get flagged for approval.
Hope you dig the new look.
Now that the WB has college faculty on its masthead (Professor Fleming, eh?) I thought this was apropos:
When Esquire magazine writer A.J. Jacobs decided to do an article about the freely distributable and freely editable online encyclopedia Wikipedia, he took an innovative approach: He posted a crummy, error-laden draft of the story to the site.
In short, the community of wikipediasts cleaned the article up. C|Net has the story. Worth a read. (via Tony)
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For a few weeks now I’ve been planning on doing some much needed housekeeping around here (upgrading wordpress, slapping on a new theme, better flickr integration, etc.). It’s pretty clear I’m never going to do it unless I set aside a couple of hours to do so on the calendar. So . . .
tmrw (Friday) expect the site to be a bit out of sorts since I’ve scheduled some time to try to at least tackle some of the basic upgrades that are on my list.
If anyone has any suggestions on things they’d like to see improved around here, drop me an email or drop a comment below.
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