Archive for April, 2005

THGTTG Review

… somewhere in the production process the crew has lost sight of the fundamental aspect of the books - they were immensely funny.”

April 21, 2005 • Posted in: Asides • No Comments

“America, you’ve done it again. . .”

I know even some of my readers — usually paragons of wisdom and virtue — didn’t like Anwar, so I suppose it should have come as no surprise that he got voted out of American Idol last night. But really, you think that Scott, or Anthony, or even Carrie are more deserving of the title [...]

April 21, 2005 • Posted in: Television • 4 Comments

Poignant

Poignant.

April 20, 2005 • Posted in: Asides • No Comments

An interesting clock

A clock that dares to be different. Oddly enough, I want one.

April 20, 2005 • Posted in: Asides • No Comments

An update on the enhanced views code

I realized that I haven’t updated you guys on the progress of my WordPress core code submission to integrate the enhanced views plugins’ functionality. Posts The Posts functionality is done. Here’s a screenshot of the new admin interface in action. You can see a bit of improvement over the existing plugin functionality. Here’s a list of improvements: Reworked [...]

April 20, 2005 • Posted in: Development • 5 Comments

ColdForged’s WordPress Comment Template Deconstructed, Part 1

I’ve been asked many times by many people how I do my comments. Be it the comment numbers, the alternately styled even and odd entries, the special formatting that applies to my comments, the shadows behind the gravatars, or the live previewing of comments, it seems that my comments template has struck a chord with [...]

April 19, 2005 • Posted in: Design • 63 Comments

What a time to be a guitarist

Wow, guess who’s on a guitar kick? When I first learned to play guitar — which would be roughly 20 years ago — the ways in which people learned to play guitar could be enumerated quite quickly. Figure out songs by ear by listening to radio/tapes/LPs. Pick up chord books and then figure out songs by ear [...]

April 18, 2005 • Posted in: Guitar • 10 Comments

And I don’t even like Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor released an upcoming song in multi-track format for people to experiment with. How utterly cool!

April 18, 2005 • Posted in: Asides • No Comments