Ryan Tubridy rattled on at length about being a nerd this morning, much to the amusement I’m sure of many of his listeners. Of course, he has no idea what the difference is between a geek and a nerd, and when someone mentioned Unix and Linux the poor fella sputtered and guessed that “Linus Paul” was the creater of Linux. I wonder did anyone text in with the correct answer? *grin*
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Cybershot Club
The Cybershot Club looks like a reasonably good Sony digital camera site. It’s got tips and techniques for photo editing too, making it useful for others besides the aforementioned camera owners.
Smarty editor and theme chooser for WordPress
I’ve ported the Smarty template editor and theme chooser from here to WordPress. It’s available to download as a tarball.
Warning! This is highly experimental code. It will nuke your current WP installation so install it on a testing server. It’s not ready for public consumption, it’ll give you food poisoning, it’ll make bad things happen, it’ll cause massive problems for the .. oh, just try it on a test server, don’t use it on a production server at all.
Here’s the mail I sent to wp-dev last night:
What this adds:
1. Smarty template aware editor. This editor makes automatic backups of your template. To restore a previously edited template just click 1-5 next to the template name and save that template again. It’s a FIFO queue..
2. Template picker/chooser. The default WP template is there as well as “Blue Dash” that I did for b2++. Click on the “Use this theme” link to use the selected theme.
3. Smarty is included, so you don’t need to download that if you haven’t got it.Anyway, here’s what you do with this lot:
1. Don’t install this over your current live WP installation as it’s only for testing!
2. Download the tarball. It creates a wp directory so move stuff around if you have to. Files should be overwritten, so backup, backup, backup!
3. In the wp-blogs/main directory you’ll want to chmod 777 the templates_c smartycache templates directories and chmod 666 templates/*
Fire up your browser and point it at your WP install!cd wp-blogs/main/
chmod 777 templates_c smartycache templates
chmod 666 templates/*
WordPress 1.0 is out!
Well, WordPress 1.0 has been released! There are a few comments on the dev blog announcement to look over as well as the support forums to post questions. I’ll be updating my CVS work area in a few minutes. 🙂
20 years ago..
20 years ago my dad recorded me, my brothers and my sister talking and telling stories on a tape. I just had a listen and couldn’t tell who was who, but it was strange to hear my mother in the background..
Happy New Year!
Welcome all to 2004! Had a great night (certainly better than last year!), and was able to drive home, as I wasn’t drinking. I just hope that sweet girl who started chatting to me doesn’t carry out her threat.. Her boyfriend of 3 years is at sea tonight, he didn’t ring, and she’s upset. She’s an embalmer so she can hide the evidence when he comes home in a week and she kills him! *lol*
And to those of you still in 2003, 2004 has had a great start! Woohoo!
There goes another one!
Me photographed?
In a break with tradition, I was the subject of a photographer yesterday as I browsed the shelves of a local hi-fi store. This guy popped a camera up, off went the flash and I was captured on digital media!
I asked him what the photo was for, and he replied that my photo could be in the Evening Echo some night this week, so I’ll have to go buy that esteemed publication for a few days, just in case. I showed him my “measly” Sony F717, but I don’t think he was impressed.
Bah! Bloody professionals!
Update! Buy tonight’s Echo! I’m on page 17! My one consolation is that only people in Cork will likely see the photo. *grin*
If nobody speaks of remarkable things
I need a “book review” category! This, the first book from Jon McGregor, is a brilliant story! Most of the way through it I wondered why I bought it, as it’s about the mundane lives of the people living in a street of flats in some city in the UK. There must be some dozen characters there, from the old couple who walk to the bus, to the twins playing cricket, to the main character whose life we follow throughout. I guess that’s what attracts so many people to Soaps – everyday life.
The remarkable thing? I’ll leave that up to you to find out. It’s a good yarn, and cleverly mixes the past with the present. This Google Search will lead you to more about this book.
Merry Christmas to all!
This is the time of year that you either love or hate. I’m indifferent to it to be honest, especially this year. To those who know, well, nothing else needs to be said.
To all reading this, enjoy your holiday. Eat and be merry and be with your families!