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WordPress 3.0

Crys — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:45:14 +0000

Have to say, I’ve got nothing but good things to say about where WordPress has gone. I was a little worried when I decided to switch over to WordPress a year ago. I was worried that the first upgrade would break my theme (which I’ve redesigned about a million times since then), that the upgrade would make me lose data from the database, that every upgrade would turn out to be a freakish chore that took a whole weekend…

…but I figured it was worth it to let someone else worry about coding for security and maintainability instead of me spending my time on it for the blog software I wrote for myself before. If I’m not spending my time worrying about whether or not I escaped something properly, I can spend that time working on other things, like site design or freelance work or drawing *cough*or playing WoW*cough*.

Instead what I’ve found is that upgrading is painless and so far hasn’t caused a single problem. It takes about three minutes and most of that time is actually me taking a backup “just in case”. I’ve had no problem posting code snippets (which seems to cause some blog software to choke) or with putting special code in just for particular posts. And I have made extensive use of being able to save things as drafts. It’s really come a long way. I would definitely recommend it if you’re looking for blog software.

Google gravity

Crys — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:24:42 +0000

Ok, this is awesome.

http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_gravity/

The collision mechanics are great. Try throwing some of the pieces around.

Google Wave

Reality and I are having an argument…

Crys — Fri, 28 May 2010 10:26:22 +0000

…and I think it’s winning.

I can’t tell if the problem is that I don’t believe in the uncivilized hour of 5 am, or if 5 am doesn’t believe in me.

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Bookmarks for May 19th through May 22nd

Crys — Sat, 22 May 2010 18:02:38 +0000

These are my links for May 19th through May 22nd:

Ben Edelman – Home –
Daring Fireball –
CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer –
Forums | Typophile –

Bookmarks for May 13th through May 18th

Crys — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:01:55 +0000

These are my links for May 13th through May 18th:

Bookmarks for April 29th through May 11th

Crys — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:01:30 +0000

These are my links for April 29th through May 11th:

Bookmarks for April 18th through April 26th

Crys — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:03:17 +0000

These are my links for April 18th through April 26th:

One extra function of bookmark posts

Crys — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:12:43 +0000

Besides the fact that I know a couple people like to check out my newest bookmarks and the seo benefit of frequent updates even when I’m not writing articles, bookmark auto-posts serve one very amusing function: Spam catching. Kind of like the cow-catchers on the front of a train, if you see a message that says “Very informative but will you write more on this subject?” or “I never thought of it that way. I will be a frequent reader now.” on a bookmark-only post, you can be pretty safe in relegating that IP to spam hell… thereby avoiding the flood of spam that often follows those test comments from spammers.

Guess I’m just getting old

Bookmarks for April 13th through April 16th

Crys — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:00:32 +0000

These are my links for April 13th through April 16th:

me studio –
Ingrid Baars – home –
Sickdesigner – Sick tutorials and ideas on web design and graphic design –
Nice Web Type –
#grid –

Bookmarks for April 10th through April 11th

Crys — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:00:01 +0000

These are my links for April 10th through April 11th: