So I’ve downloaded and tried out Chrome. It’s cute. It renders well. It might be a teensy bit faster on app heavy sites. It does not, however, have all my must-have Firefox plugins (speed dial, ad blocker plus, stylish, greasemonkey, etc…) and therefore I will not be switching my browser default.
I’m not sure who Google’s target audience is for this. Folks who use google apps a lot? Multimedia developers? Kids who want the latest shiny toy? If they’re trying to woo over the Firefox crowd they’ll have to address plug in compatibility, as I’d say most heavy firefox users have at least one plug in you’d need to pry from their cold dead motherboard. IE users, of course, are the low hanging fruit - but if they haven’t jumped ship for Firefox, why would they go for Chrome?
This service looks very interesting, and possibly a very good fit for one or two of my clients.
I think I just managed to get two wordpress loops running at the same time on my home page, without breaking the rest of the theme. Nifty.
Edit: Except the styling for the second loop is a bit off. Dangnabbit.
Edit2: Ha. Fixed it.
Edit3: And yet, it still won’t work exactly the way I’d like. Switching back to the old theme for the time being. Aarg.
Dear WP users-
The WP theme development community is mind boggingly huge, but you haven’t been able to find that one perfect theme that shows off your special snowflake-ness. And you whine that css is just too haaard to learn. And you don’t want to pay anyone else to make a custom theme for you.
My tiny violin, it is playing just for you.
No love,
me.
In the future, install windows service packs offline. Running this kind of upgrade online will, apparently, cook the registry. Bah.
…2/3 of my must have programs have been reinstalled. Not that I didn’t need to do a system wipe in the near future, but I had other plans for this weekend. I do love my external HD backup though. Makes mistakes like this an inconvenience instead of a disaster.
CS Next. If I were a 3-d artist, I might be more excited. CS2 is still doing fine for me at home.
I’ve gone back and forth a dozen times between last night and now as to whether I want to shunt all comments to CreateSomething, or open both sites for commenting. This morning I was thinking both sites, ’cause I loathe that the default WP behavior is to have comments display flat, which I think discourages back and forth discussion, and I didn’t want LJ folks to have to jump though extra hurdles. (Let’s be honest here… I’m writing for a small audience here, and 98% of you are on LJ.)
It turns out, there are plugins to make my life happy. 1.) I can now accept OpenID data (username.livejournal.com), and 2.) I can now has threaded comments. Still leaving both sites open for commenting right now - will see how it works.
…eyes that interesting looking userpic-esque dohicky…
Just found a lovely plugin (LJXP) that lets me crosspost (easily) to CreateSomething and LJ and (I think) consolidate the comments in one spot.
Let me know if anyone has problems!
Since switching over to hostican, I’ve noticed that the amount of spam I’m getting has *plummeted*. From 100-200 pieces per day, I’m down to less than 20. My email address hasn’t changed, so I’m guessing that hostican’s spamblockers are just that good. Or something.