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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