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Wordpress 2.7
I upgraded to WordPress 2.7 a couple of days ago. Some features that struck me as awesome: the QuickPress dashboard widget, and the fact that automatically upgrading plugins actually works for me now.
The new UI hasn’t really grown on me yet, but I’m sure it will in a while.
Street View: Always interesting
Today, I took a drive through the KTA toll booth without paying a toll.
Brokers with hands on their faces
The brokers with hands on their faces blog. (via Sam Switzer)
New website design
So I made myself a new website design. It’s live on ianweller.org.
It’s based off of the 960 Grid System. I’m going to start distributing the WordPress theme after I clean up the code (a lot).
Comments appreciated.
This is how marketing is done
Note the tags. :P
By the way, the 2008 Creative Commons fundraising campaign is going on now. Go support a great cause, and tell others to do the same.
On a completely unrelated note, my colleague and I received first place at a debate tournament Tuesday night.
fedora-business-cards 0.2
I’ve released fedora-business-cards, the Fedora business card generator (aptly named, eh?) as version 0.2.
Tarball - Specfile and SRPM - git repository
This is a prerelease version; I don’t make any guarantees of its usability, functionality, or awesomeness. There are two known bugs: I haven’t written any new documentation, and letters with accent marks (such as “Máirín Duffy”) don’t show up properly in the MgOpen Moderna font. Both are being worked on.
I don’t plan to put it in Fedora until I get a tangible release, possibly with a graphical frontend (not highly necessary, though). Running
fedora-business-cards --help
after installing should help you get started; the CLI interface is pretty straightforward.
And yeah, you need a FAS account to create these.
The new US penny
Damn. Now I’m not going to be able to tell them apart from the rest of my coinage. >:(
(via East Bay Business Times)
Status report and a request for help
School is taking over my life, again. There’s one catch though — I’m actually enjoying this year. (whoa!)
My English teacher doesn’t suck. In fact, she’s one of the best teachers I’ve ever had, and it’s her first year of teaching.
So, with the increase of schooliness, a decrease in Fedoraness obviously goes down. Here’s my current list of works-in-progress, and if anyone wants to grab one of these and help me out immensely, that would be awesome.
{{needs love}} on ‘em, and they go in Category:Pages that need love. What I really need is a lot of someones to take a page in, give it some love and whatever it needs to succeed, and remove the {{needs love}} tag.Send me patches, I’ll give ya push access if I like ‘em. Remember that fuse-mediawiki is the potential future of bots for the Fedora Project wiki, and will also allow people to escape the <textarea>, so it’s a good thing for Fedora and the entire MediaWiki community.
So, if you feel like giving a little bit more to the Fedora community, this is a great way to do it — by helping a high school student feel more secure because things are taken care of. Let me know if you’re interested in any of these.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!