This is Domino, our new cat. She’s seen here showing an affinity for boxes — emerging from a hiding place she’d been keen to get out of hours earlier. This is probably the first of many inevitable cat photos.
Month: January 2006
Audio player for WordPress
The audio player plugin for WordPress looks pretty sweet, minimal but it’s got everything you need. Might be nice for running an mp3 blog.
More lock picking tips
If you’re looking for some light afternoon reading, check out the document formerly known as MIT’s guide to lockpicking. After that, here’s a set of instructions for creating a cheap vibrating lock pick. And no, I’m not planning something.
Fuggy Fuggy
He who struggles, and endures, will be a ninja. Fuggy Fuggy.
In da Club
Here we go with another visual roundup of the latest and greatest 5Q interviews from Seal Club. Five more sets of questions, featuring a good whack of talent that we abuse by probing the most mundane aspects of their existence. Go read them now (and check out the first five interviews if you missed ’em).
Thanks to: Paul B. Drohan, Khaled Abou Alfa, Dave Shea, Greg Storey and Matthew Good, for helping us out this time around. Hopefully, we’ll have more Seal Club action coming at you soon. It’s been slow over the last month or so.
flickrRSS extension for TYPO3
Ingo Renner has created a flickr extension for TYPO3 based on my flickrRSS plugin for WordPress, go open-source. You can grab the extension from the typo repository.
Web Developer extension for Firefox
The 1.0 release of the web developer extension for Firefox is out. If you’re remotely interested in CSS design, this is a must have (it’s probably one of my most used apps).
Ordering wine
How to order a bottle of wine without looking like an asshole.
26. Its wine, not the Blood of Christ. Don’t worship it. Enjoy it.
And for the love of God, don’t smell the cork.
flickrRSS 3.0
Finally got around to updating the flickrRSS plugin for WordPress. I had been meaning to do it for awhile, but kept putting it off. Now that WordPress 2.0 is out, I figured it would be a good time to break the plugin. Yeah, that’s right break it. I changed around a bunch of the options and how the parameters are handled, so you’ll need to set it up again.
As an end user, you won’t notice a lot of the improvements. The interface makes more sense now (compare a 2.0 screenshot vs 3.0 screenshot) and should be easier to use. The options panel has been moved into Presentation, which makes more sense I think. At least that’s where I usually went looking for it. The image sizes now reflect the actual flicker image sizes too.
Twelve Hours of Power
Hello 2006. Bring it.
I won’t get into a huge retrospective, but the past year has been pretty damn good. Some highlights: moving to WordPress, graduating from Teacher’s College, the popularity of the flickrRSS and myStatus plugins, having site designs appear on a number of CSS Gallery sites, Alanah moving in and receiving a Digital Rebel for Christmas.
As they say, the new year is a time for growth and rejuvenation (but I could be wrong, maybe it’s Spring they’re talking about). In the spirit of growing, it’s time to rip the site apart and start again. If you’re new to the neighbourhood, it happens a lot.