Yesterday, Julia and I moved out of the place we have rented since January and into Julia’s parents house… for a week, before we can move into our home!
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Monthly Archives: April 2007
How much is an empty box worth?
From Dell it sounds like that will cost you $850, but the greater cost is Maya’s time and the stress caused.
Isn’t It Ironic
It’s the Canadian dollar hitting near 6 month high, when you’re about to buy your first house in Canada and get paid in US dollars.
“And isn’t it ironic…don’t you think”
WordPress Google Summer of Code Students!
Ten students are being paid $4500 USD each to working on WordPress this summer!
Linuxfest Northwest 2007
Linuxfest Northwest is an amazing, free, all ages Linux community annual event April 28 & 29 that I have never been to. I unfortunately will not be there again this year.
Blogging to Optimize Output
When people tell me they’re too busy to blog, I ask them to count up their output of keystrokes. How many of those keystrokes flow into email messages? Most. How many people receive those email messages? Few. How many people could usefully benefit from those messages, now or later? More than a few, maybe a lot more.
Innovation is often a matter of packaging
[Dale Vile] questioned whether open source could deliver innovation in the way proprietary vendor models had. I would argue innovation is often a matter of packaging – our industry is still in the process of digesting and innovating Xerox PARC’s inventions.Wordpress is innovative because its so flexible and extensible, without having to hack through scripting code. It is a beautiful thing.
Writes James Governor in WordPress: The most innovative open source platform yet? (thanks Mark Ghosh).
I would not say the most innovative. Linux holds that spot for me, Novell and Ubuntu are taking it further. Novell in terms of the product and Ubuntu in its customer care and community.
But there is not another product I would like to be working on more than WordPress. The web is here, and it is also the the future. Countless people contribute to making WordPress an important part of it.
It is the leadership of Matt Mullenweg and community members, refined into a product by his one hand and the community’s, and the plugins, themes and voices of the web which I can’t get enough of!
PHP Voodoo To Add Google Analytics To Static HTML Files
I host Steve Bett’s resources for trying to make sense of English spelling and promoting the sensible option of moving to a phonetic spelling. He has published so much fantastic content here!
All of the content he has published by writing into an HTML editor and then uploading it using FTP. It is awkward.
I have always been too busy to provide a better solution, but now I hope to work with him to migrate to using a Content Management System (CMS).
First step is adding some Google Analytics to all those static HTML files. This will tell us how much pain it will be if/when we change the location (URLs) of all that content and if there are some important ones that we should explicitly redirect.
I did this without touching any of the HTML files with some PHP Voodoo. PHP’s auto_prepend_file was my friend. Thank you Brajeshwar B. Oinam for Effective way to update your blog’s header scripts with some help from phpPatterns’ develop:bringing_static_html_to_life_with_php and Zend’s A Better way to Auto Prepend/Append
Croquet, not the Gentleperson’s Variety
Originally uploaded by foolswisdom.
Saturday afternoon, I got together with Chris Robb, Chris Noel, and Andrew Williamson. Colin Dyer showed up for a second game.
This was Robb and my first participation in the Victoria Benevolent Croquet Society.
The weather was gorgeous, and the course was configured for titans.
The 1st game Robb has victorious, and I came from last to come in 2nd.
The 2nd game Dire dominated and Noel tried to chase him down unsuccessfully. Robb, Williamson, and I surrendered to a hole mid-course.
It was a great day with beautiful weather.
coComment, where did you go?
I have come to depend on coComment to continue the conversation after I leave a comment. It has been offline all day.
I consider coComment a tool that I don’t want to live with out. It is part of my dashboard on the web, like WordPress.com’s My Comments.
coComment where did you go? Where are my comments?