of wordpress, themes, annoyances

December 17, 2009

One of the core failures of WordPress, at least in this current version, is how confuddled the widgets vs theme vs plugin options are.  For instance, I had been recently using a theme that had a built-in RSS subscribe function.  It would display, rather nicely I might add, a big RSS logo that most people [...]

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of concept robots, art, paintings

December 17, 2009

I have a soft spot for artistic areas like matte paintings, and other conceptual sci-fi art works.  I’ve been following Concept Ships for a good while, but they have branched out with a wonderful new blog called Concept Robots.  Definitely worth an RSS subscription in your favorite reader. It’s rather nice some days to open [...]

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of apple, bandwidth

December 17, 2009

With the arrival of the new Iron Man 2 trailer, available on Apple’s lovely little site, it’s taken me over an hour to download the 720P version.  It comes in a lowbie 110MB, yet I’m currently downloading at 30k/sec.  Lovely.  And here I thought they used Akamai for some distribution.  Clearly not!  Even other movies [...]

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of dns, knowing what’s best to do

December 3, 2009

So Google announces their interest in running public DNS servers.  OpenDNS offered their own retort.  Considering the importance of DNS to Google’s operations I can appreciate some of their design decisions.  For now I’m going to keep with OpenDNS, regardless of me being a big Google supporter. I must admit though, Google’s 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 addresses are [...]

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of alien spies among us, more restful nights head

November 29, 2009

‘Alien spies live among us,’ says a chap from the Bulgarian national Space Research Institute. This is so fucking awesome on a hundred levels.  First, I am gobsmacked Bulgaria even has a space research institute.  Plus, according to this chap, these alien spies are responsible for global warming!  I’m not sure about you, but I [...]

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of winter, ontario musings

November 28, 2009

In recent weeks, Ontario has seen some beautiful Fall temperatures.  By this time last year, we actually had lots of snow in some places.  With November coming to an end shortly, we’ve seen above seasonal temperatures and some really beautiful hiking conditions.  Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but given there was snow [...]

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of 1password, an osx essential

November 27, 2009

I’m not sure why I haven’t chimed in on this before, but 1Password is a must have for OSX.  Version 3 is newly released (earlier this month) and finally has Firefox integration — this solves so many problems, especially for those of us who prefer Firefox over Safari. Also, if you have an iPhone, do [...]

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of simple replies

November 20, 2009

A developer wrote a rather nice and well thought complaint/plea to Steve Jobs of Apple.  Jobs’ response just about made my day.

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of power consumption

November 19, 2009

I have been waiting patiently for more information about Google’s PowerMeter. It seems like only a few lucky Utilities (and their customers) get to use this service, but power to the consumer! There are various alternatives out there to pique your interest. The only stipulation to all of this is whether or not you have [...]

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of choosing your own adventure, book info-porn

November 11, 2009

Choose Your Own Adventure (cyoa) books were very popular for people my age growing up. I recall spending hours going back and forth through various trees of decisions all the while fending off the carnal urges of cheating by reading all the endings at once. A designer chap by the name of Christian has beautifully [...]

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