Posted December 13th, 2006 in
Design,
Life
I haven’t mentioned it yet, but I have been using Windows Live Writer for a while now to do my blog posts, and I must say, I am VERY impressed. Even better, I now have an extension for Firefox (Live Writerfox) that lets me post directly from my web browser using Live Writer. It’s a pretty nifty setup…there was no configuration to be done, it just works.
There are also plugins for Live Writer that will let you use pictures from your Flickr photostream, insert Technorati tags. and other such functions. Live Writer also supports most (if not all) of the major blog engines, including WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, and LiveJournal. Give it a try…it may be a beta product, but I have yet to find any serious bugs.
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Memory is weird. This morning, as I emerged from a vivid dream about my first encounter with what we might call the "proto-internet," I found myself marveling at how some memories fade within minutes while others resurface with stunning clarity decades later. The dream transported me back to the summer of 1989, when my mother had just begun her undergraduate studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, and I was about to stumble upon a connection that would change my life.
I finally found a few minutes to put the finishing touches on an open-source theme conversion I've been working on for a while. I have posted the theme for download here. Take a look, and let me know what you think.
Recently, while developing a Wordpress theme for a client, I devised a handy trick to use different headline graphics for pages (it should work for posts too) based on the page title. The basis of the trick is to name your headline graphics the same as the pages they are to show up on (ex.
