an ode to wordpress

penny on December 18, 2007

WordPress how you rock my world.
In daylight and at night
the process is so simple:
5 minute install is true.
Themes abound
and Plugins galore.

Akismet is a joy
and has caught over
33,476 spam.

When widgets were
grafted into the trunk I leapt with joy.
No longer did I need to
ssh then vi in to tweak things.

WordPress, I <3 you!

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Ok ok. I’m sorry for the very bad poetry. I really did have another post intended for today, but wordpress has really been rocking my worlds so I thought I’d give it some public love. At one time I wanted (and could) write poetry.. I also goofed on my schedule and found myself arriving home much later and hungrier than desired and with a client call that I’ve not yet prepared for. It’s my own fault. I forgot how the crowds in the city at the holiday season take much more out of me than they do at other times. I hope after the call I’ll spend some time with my multiple wordpress installs and get this one a bit happier. Do you like my new Ravelry progress bars on the side? I know, the entire sidebar needs some TLC but it’s getting there. (If you have a nice book icon I can use (and what it’s licensed with) please let me know!)

traveling…

penny on July 31, 2007

Just a reminder that the silly little “contest” ends tonight! Info here..

And actually I still am not positive where we are going. I have some ideas but I’m not positive. E has been taking the atlas into our private reading room nightly so we’ll see.

Yes I’m playing around with site redesign. This is supposed to be purple not pink (yuck) so i’m going to play around with it. I thank you for your patience. Remember, I am not a designer — I hire designers when I need to! I know the usability is a bit wonky, I am working on that too and hope that some larger changes should fix that up as well. This design is a little closer to what I envision for the site to look like. Now to start generating the content I desire…

tools: dpn keeper & middot; site admin ..

penny on May 24, 2007

Gut Voch! Ok.. We’re going off to the great North tomorrow morning so I’m not quite sure what posting will be. I’ll set up tomorrow’s post shortly and we’ll see what happens. I had a very nice Yontif. My FIL cooked. It was fun (and yummy, though a TON of food).

Today’s post is about a very simple “tool” to keep [photopress:monkey24may07.jpg,thumb,alignright]dpn’s from well, poking out of your bag while you are grocery shopping and begging for you to buy all the sugary foods you shouldn’t eat. I picked this up from Sheri at the Loopy Ewe and I’m going to pick up a few more soon because they are just great. I wish the cord was expandable from 4-8" but I’ll take this! It has already saved the life of some socks. Sorry for the poor camera phone picture, my camera is currently getting some nail polish to keep my lens cap on (it’s really the only reason I own nail polish) so I am not touching it until it dries. Oh and please don’t ask me about sizing. It’s a tad confusing but I apparently guessed right!

Because I can’t resist — this was Monkey on Tuesday:
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I upgraded to WordPress 2.2 tonight and added a plugin which puts an icon with each post of the main index page. Sorta a la slashdot but not perfect yet. I’m currently looking for some 16×16 icons for yarn and other things which I post about.. I’m not totally pleased with this plugin but I haven’t found one I really like yet. I know it’s out there. I’d prefer one that automatically posted images based on the categories I selected .. I should just roll my own. *sigh*

site admin

penny on April 27, 2007

I finally installed the latest release of wordpress and did a little bit of housekeeping around the site. Please let me know if you experience any funkiness. I’ve not yet tested beyond Firefox 2.0.0.3 on my Mac.

I also have noticed that some of my stats are adding one or two new readers. Welcome, I’ll try hard to scare you away with my senseless irrelevant incoherent dribble.

Also: I’m slowly updating the library generated by my now reading plugin with images that are stored properly on my server and fixing the authors to be lastname, firstname so I can store it “properly” by author.

site admin .. tools

penny on April 12, 2007

Oh no! What happened to PG? [for those of you in a feed reader, I changed the theme and it has a text based header.] She wants me to work on the images and freshen up that site a little so here’s a plain text placeholder for now. I need to tweak a few things right off because I don’t like them, but it’s getting there. :)

Tools. Right. Uhm.. I knew I should’ve drafted this post while I was thinking about it! I think I finally figured out twitter … and why I didn’t grok it for a while… It’s an interface to all our IM away messages! Remember in college when we’d set it as away even though we were just procrastinating and doing nothing? That is totally what twitter reminds me of. I was never good at setting good away messages so that’s why I have a hard time with it now. However, Corrie and I were emailing & twittering earlier today and she introduced me to tweetbar (hey, I never said I was totally on top of this stuff..) and now… well, we’ll see what happens.

Other tools… All those things on the side bar? (it was on the right, now it’s on the left … as I’ll probably switch the theme again.. who knows where it will be!) In any case.. there are some fun things there. I have many too many rss feeds I try to follow. I read them quite diligently in Google Reader .. anyway .. I can share posts I find interesting … I like that. There are clipmarks too sometimes (I forget that a TON) .. And the books I am reading all lots of fun stuff.

Next week will be better posting content wise. I hope. :) There are quite a few things I want to write about.

Lastly, if you have emailed me recently and haven’t received an answer in about 24 hours? Try again. I’m not sure if I’m mistaking the email for spam or why I’m not seeing some… I get a TON of email and much of it can be deleted. I worry that I’ve been over zealous on that front.