Graded.

29 Mar 2008 – 9:22
By adam | Also posted in blogging, design | Comments (2)

I wouldn’t say up-graded, but WordPress 2.5 is definitely different. I feel the need to punish myself thusly, since wordpress is now my day job, besides my ‘hobby’ of supporting the themes I’ve developed. I’ve been playing with the SVN upgrades for a month or so now, making sure my themes work. [...]

Wordpress 2.3.3 Spam Exploit

27 Mar 2008 – 10:24
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (1)

If you run a wordpress blog, you should be reading Blogsecurity. This is the feed I use, that only includes the wordpress advisories. I think it’s a damn shame that this feed isn’t included in the wordpress planet that’s syndicated across everyone’s dashboard. Security is far more important than wordcamp.
I’m only bringing this [...]

Sarah Marshall is evil

25 Mar 2008 – 7:09
By adam | Also posted in soapboxing | Comments (0)

Chicago’s been overrun with the faux-ARG billboards about Sarah Marshall, which point to the faux-blog for one of the characters. From there, you’ll land on the site for the trailer:

The most shocking thing is that they’re not kidding: they’re actually validating against your driver’s license or something close to it. For sites that don’t [...]

Buckshot Ep. 9: Themes

18 Feb 2008 – 9:26
By adam | Also posted in blogging | Comments (5)

Disconnected 1.3 is out. It includes support for WordPress 2.3’s native tagging, and preliminary support for WordPress 2.5’s get_avatar() function. I know I said I’d never support gravatars1, but since they’re going native in 2.5, there’s no point in fighting anymore. At least once 2.5 is released, I can write a [...]

The Apple Way

14 Feb 2008 – 8:45
By adam | Comments (4)

Since buying a laptop, I’ve had a vague uneasiness about my recently departed RAID 5 setup. My old desktop is now my development server, and I have a portable hard drive I’ve been using to store all the music that was once on my desktop. It also serves as my backup drive (unlike [...]