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wp 2.2 update

So there’s still no official K2 release for Wordpress 2.2.  There’s nothing that I can really do with my styles to address this issue.  Fortunately there is a plugin that disables the new Widgets feature of Wordpress that was causing the problem in the first place.  So, if you want to use K2 under Wordpress 2.2, this should fix any issues you have.

Download Disable WordPress Widgets plugin.

agora days schedule

    1. Rev and other games
    2. Will Ferrell on Film
    3. Breakfast Around the World
    1. Best Movies Ever
    2. Japanese Traditional Tea Ceremony
  1. Cell Game
  2. free
    1. N64 Super Smash Bros.
    2. Risk
    3. warcraft III
    1. Ultimate Frisbee
    2. Brass Ensemble
    3. 80 Points
  3. free
    1. American Sign Language
    2. Korean Movies
    3. N64 Class

this one goes up to 0xA

http://wafflesoftware.net/

I downloaded this a few days ago thanks to a reference from Daring Fireball’s Linked List, but I didn’t look at the front page until now. This is probably one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while.

résumé

My newly tricked-out résumé is now online. (Leave the accents off of the URL for your health.) It features some fun XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with a boring PDF. Check it out if you’re into that sort of thing.
As a side note, accents are easy to add on the Mac. Just type Option+e and then the letter that you want to accent. I wonder how it works in Windows.
And now time for homework and perhaps some of that good college application fun.

iTunes 7

Big update to iTunes, but it’s some pretty ugly stuff. What are the scrollbars doing? They don’t fit in to Windows or OS X themes at all. The highlighted option in the source panel is also pretty ugly. However, the improved video playback, the new device manager (also pretty unattractive) and, most importantly gapless playback make this worthwhile.
The new icon is also uglier.

new theme

I took this photo on the Japan trip this summer while we were driving around Kyoto in a tour bus. It’s pretty difficult to take a good shot on a Japanese highway - there are fences everywhere.
It seems that I make new themes about as often as I post here nowadays… Maybe I should make a directory for my K2 styles.

School has been going well. I wrote some automation for Uni’s alumni reunions gallery: a PHP template for generating gallery pages, and an Automator script to create thumbnails. This should mean that I’ll be done with the project pretty quickly, and maybe I can get on to some more interesting stuff. :P

update

Osashiburi da na… Anyway, I updated the blog to Wordpress 2.0.4 and the theme to K2 0.9. The theme upgrade is quite nice, although that slider doesn’t seem to be working in Safari - I’ll have to take a look at it later.

There’s also a new feature in the sidebar - Latest Links. It’s based off of my del.icio.us account. You can mouseover for a description. I plan to post new links often-ish, unlike posts here.

busy busy

Well somehow the like 5 lines of CSS I changed in this blog template killed it in IE, but you’ll just have to deal with it for now if you’re unfortunate enough to be using that browser. I finished up all the hard work on the Wampler Property Management site tonight. (It’s not there yet pending final approval.) I kinda forgot to validate my work while i was working, so I had a few small changes to make on ALL the pages. Pretty dumb of me, but I wanted the site to validate. My design portfolio site should go up this weekend too.

Went to see V for Vendetta with Marquis & Luke; it was pretty good, if a little but unnerving. I maintain that the 1812 Overture is way overused for blowing stuff up. I don’t know that its even that great a choice for that sort of thing, other than the fact that it has a freaking cannon part.

Oh crap, I still need to do that history paper. :(

hub!

I had to buy a USB hub today just to support all my peripherals. Of course, the iMac only has 3 USB ports, one of which is used for the mouse, so it’s not that bad.
I also made the blog theme a bit uglier, if somewhat more seasonal. Spring break is pretty boring.

second day of spring

I even went ahead and changed the blog header image…
Snow
The sad part is, this may be the most snow we’ve gotten all season. (I took this pretty late in the afternoon when most of it had melted.)