Miklb's Mindless Ramblings

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New Page- Recent Surf

So a while back, I found the on line “community bookmark manager”, delicious. Basically any site you find, you could bookmark to delicious, as you would with your browser, however the advantage is that if you were away from your computer, you could still access your bookmarks. Also, it employs the use of “tags”, that is, a description of the bookmark. Using that concept, you could find other sites that relate to the “tag”. It’s a good idea, and anyone can check it out, but I was turned onto a script , Scuttle, that allows an individual or group of individuals to create their own “community bookmark manager”.I created a page that gives a RSS feed of the 15 most current, but I’m thinking about changing that to a random list. If anyone else would be interested in “joining” my bookmark manager, drop me a line, either via a comment, or the contact page. I am toying with the idea of changing its CSS to look more like this site, and simply allow anyone to look through the bookmarks. But it’s definitely just a project, with no real time table. Again, if you’re interested, let me know.

New Page- Recent Surf was published on Monday, June 27, 2005 at 12:58pm and tagged design, my-site, geek-life and wordpress. There are currently 4 comments on this article. Share your thoughts by writing your own.

Under Construction

*EDIT- I have opted back to my original look, as I wasn’t happy with where things were. I may simply change a few things with this look, mainly the header image.

Pardon the dust, but I’ve switched over to a custom designed theme. It’s more of a cobbling together of ideas from other themes, than a totally custom design, aside from the header image, that is. The boxes on the side bar are from the travelogue theme, and I’ve probably hacked some other stuff without even realizing it, lord knows I looked under the hood at a dozen or so themes before starting this one. So if you have any issues, please comment in this thread. I may add a theme switcher, so if viewers totally hate it, they can swap to another look. Thanks for stopping by, and looking around.

Under construction was published on Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 10:03pm and tagged design, my-site and wordpress. There is currently one comment to this article. Share your thoughts by writing your own.

Patting Myself on the Back

Spent quite some time cleaning things up a bit around here. Got the site totally xhtml valid again, cleaned up the sidebar (was getting a little garish from all the plugins) and generally tightened up the site.

I added a couple of pages (another ego stroke, as I had to completely rewrite the default theme template, little by little I’m understanding PHP and the structure of wordpress). I’ve done away with the del.icio.us links, as I’ve added my very own quasi-version in the form of Scuttle. I still very well may add a links page in the form of recent surfing , or the like, but in the meantime, I’ll just add those that really meet the mark to the sidebar. I even used Kalsey’s button maker to make the custom buttons for the various validation in the sidebar.
Got to love insomnia.

Patting Myself on the Back was published on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 at 2:06am and tagged design, my-site, geek-life and wordpress. There are currently 3 comments on this article. Share your thoughts by writing your own.

Updating the Sidebar

Well, I’ve been slowly updating the sidebar, rearranging the order, added the recent visitor plugin as well as the recent del.icio.us links. If you are not familiar with Del.icio.us, they call themselves a “social bookmark manager”. Basically, it allows you to book mark a site while you are surfing, and then access the bookmark via the net, versus just the browser. Therefore, if you use multiple browsers, or are away from your machine, you can still find the site. Likewise, you can share them via a RSS feed. So, I just started using it, but ultimately, it will show the most recent. The default is 15, and once I reach that number, I’ll see how it looks in the sidebar, and decide if I want to add more. I’m really thinking about changing the header, any feedback about the current one?

Updating the sidebar was published on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 8:37pm and tagged design, my-site, geek-life and wordpress. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

New Sidebar Coming Soon

I am on a quest to research some of those 139 Wordpress themes over at Alex Kings site, and weave together a side bar I like. Not that anyone is visiting yet, but by god, when they do, it will be snazzy. I really want to change the header image as well, the image is just a little, well, blurry.

New Sidebar coming soon was published on Sunday, March 27, 2005 at 9:46pm and tagged design, my-site, geek-life and wordpress. Respond to this article by writing the first comment.

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Just a guy wandering the intarwebs looking to make sense of life.

Sub Pop now on emusic. I can now fully relive the salad days.

Side Notes

I’m always on the prowl for cheap (read FREE) iPhone apps, and finding a simple source for such is no easy task, at least in my searches. Unfortunately, all the sites I’ve found that cover this type of information are so full of ads and poorly designed, it’s impossible to actually find anything useful. I have however recently discovered at dealmac.com a RSS feed specifically for discounted iPhone/iPod Touch apps.. I can’t say that I’ve actually found any great deals yet through it, (I haven’t had a chance to play the recent “Let’s Golf!” game posted today), but it’s a start. And don’t get me wrong, I have no problem paying for a quality app, and do so with perhaps too regular of frequency, but still like finding a deal when I can, especially on games, which I know I’ll only play a few times, or very rarely.
Do you have any sites or feeds that you’d care to share? Tips on finding apps on sale?
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I was pleasantly surprised this afternoon by a comment left here on the site that my first Habari theme, Mzingi, had been ported to another CMS, WolfCMS. Though I’ve since passed Mzingi off to the official Habari project, and is now owned by the community and part of the official download, it’s a bit rewarding to see it deemed worthy of porting. You can see a demo of it in action as a WolfCMS theme.
It’s also nice they gave attribution on the official site. I’d not heard of the project before, seems like a young project that is a fork of another CMS project, but their site describes the project as something akin to Habari.
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It’s always great to see new themes released for Habari, even if they are ports. Florian has ported the WordPress theme Clean Home to Habari. The theme’s name aptly describes the design, a clean, black and white two column design with contrasting red headings. The theme seems to be coded for trunk, that is, using the areas feature. One thing I noticed is that the theme still has some cruft from WP, calling for a dynamic sidebar (widgets) with some text that also references a text widget and and admin options. I of all people can understand though of wanting to get something out before working out all the kinks, so I’m sure he’ll update it as soon as the areas/blocks feature is fleshed out a bit more. I also don’t speak German, so it’s quite possible he references that in the post announcing the release.
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You’d think “Canada’s best magazine”, The Walrus would at least link back to my bookmarks if they are going to use my graphics in their post about Infinite Summer. Heck, they didn’t even change the name of the image from the 5x bookmark file. Real professional Nav, real professional…
At least they didn’t just hotlink to the image in my post.
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I’ve recently been using Safari 4 beta, mostly because I had been too lazy to get more RAM, and Firefox was just too damn slow with all the apps I’d have open on only 1 gig. Now that I’m at 4 gigs, I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox, especially with the comments I’ve been reading about the speed improvements of the next version (3.5??). Another reason I’ve been contemplating going back to Firefox is that Firebug is just far superior to Safari’s built in inspector. To that end, I’ve recently come across two add-ons for Firebug.
The first, Firefinder, is a handy tool to “find HTML elements matching chosen CSS selector(s) or XPath expression”.
The second is one that Google previously used internally. Today they open sourced it and released, Page Speed. Page Speed allows developers to “evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.”
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Theme Development

I have moved all of my theme development to Beanstalk. If you would like to check out the full svn repository, you can checkout from http://blogworks.svn.beanstalkapp.com/themes.

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