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.
Oh no, i can feel it starting again
I’m already getting sick of this layout, it’s too much like the last one. In the near future I’ll upgrade WordPress and start hacking away at a new theme. For those that have requested themes and whatnot, Fork for K2 will be along shortly. And to those that think I don’t spend any time with my plugins, flickrRSS 3.0 should be along soon too (be prepared to break your old installs, muahaha).
idGettr.com
I created a little page awhile ago that allows you to retrieve your Flickr userid number or groupid number. It actually gets used — mostly for WordPress plugins, but you can also use it for other things like embedding Flash slideshows in your site. I’ve moved the page to idGettr.com and created a Flickeresque design for it.
Khoi Vinh is the new NYT design director
Khoi Vinh is the new design director at the NYT. Look for the gold standard in newspaper web-design to shape up.
Ketchup Week
It’s Ketchup Week. I’ve been at home, which may explain the lack of updates. Should be back in Kingston tomorrow afternoon, the pace should pick up a bit.
Feed Icons
Feed Icons. The popularity of Matt’s icon pack led him to create a stand-alone site to grab them from.
The new Airbag wallpaper
Greg has posted the new Airbag Industries wallpaper to go with his header. Grab it now for halftoney goodness.
Democracy vs Despotism
A 1946 propoganda film comparing democracy and despotism. You feel kind of dirty after watching it. Your community may be headed towards despotism when economic distribution favours the wealthy and information is controlled by the few. Uh oh.
RSS feed icons
The IE7 team recently announced that they’re adopting the Firefox feed icon to create consistency across browsers. It’s about time, those oranage xml and rss chiclets were ass-ugly. In response, Matt Brett has whipped up some fancy full-size feed icons (in Photoshop and Illustrator format) that you can use on your site.
How To: nebulous desktop wallpaper
Creating your own trippy nebulous desktop wallpaper is relatively easy. The only tool you need is a painting program capable of drawing gradients and maintaining multiple layers (Photoshop, PaintShop or Gimp all fit the bill nicely).
