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Ghost Rider has long been one of my favorite comic books, so imagine my surprise and joy to see this in my feed reader this morning...

The artist is doing a month of Marvel characters done in the style of The Simpsons. I'm glad he's doing some of the more obscure Marvel characters.

I'm such a geek... :)

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I have bumped everyone's favorite tag cloud plugin for Wordpress 2.3+ to version 4.5. What's new? The biggest change is the addition of an Options page for configuring the plugin when used as a template tag. As always, you can see the full changelog, get the new version, and leave comments from the CTC page.

Just a quick note to release my newest Wordpress-related download, a bundle for the excellent OS X text editor TextMate for doing Wordpress development. The bundle includes template for common WP theme files, updated snippets for newer versions of WP, and various other time-savers. Head over to the Bundle page to check it out and download it.

Being a freelance web developer, there are many times where I'm moving domains for clients (or more recently, myself), and need to know when the DNS entries change to point at the new version of a site. I could just keep submitting an nslookup request manually, but that requires me to stop whatever it is I'm doing, switch to my terminal app, and execute the command.

Just a quick release to add a feature and fix one. The new feature is the ability to randomly sort the tag cloud. This option will show a completely different order of the tags to each visitor to your site. Not really earth-shattering, but it was asked for, so there it is.

Hot on the heels of version 3.1 (and the very minor 3.2) comes the all new version 4.0 of my configurable tag cloud widget for Wordpress 2.3+. What makes it new, you ask? Well, how about the ability to include your Wordpress categories in your tag cloud? It's a feature that people have been (erroneously) assuming CTC supports for a while, but I never could get it to work.

After losing two hard drives in rapid succession, I figured it was time to start giving some serious thought to my backup plan. I have been rsyncing my documents, pictures, and active projects folders to my local Debian server for a while now so neither drive loss was that critical, but it drove home the fact that while I like to think my systems are bulletproof, there's no such thing.

Just a quick note to let everyone know I have released version 3.1 of my Configurable Tag Cloud plugin. This isn't a major update, it just adds the ability to output the links for the cloud to an array for further processing. I have included a simple example over on the CTC as well as the new version for download.