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Elvgren-ed out!

By Emile • May 6th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

I’ve switched the default theme for the blog back to the Kubrick-based default. This mostly has to do with having seen enough of Elvgren’s ladies. You can still preview the theme using the by clicking here.
From a UI perspective, the random image script is great but tends to wear and […]



Taft Outweighs Elvgren

By Emile • May 3rd, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

Ladies and gentlemen, in this corner weighing in at a modest 200lbs is the wordpress theme Elllllllllllllllllllvvvvvvvgrennnnnnn!!!!!
And in the opposite corner, the underground alternative Wordpress Theme #140, weighing in at 693lbs er… 693 downloads for the month of April is TTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaafffffffffffffffftttttt!!
Now that all of the hubbub has settled from Alex King’s Wordpress Theme […]



Loose Lips at Los Alamos ?

By Emile • May 1st, 2005 • Category: Blogging, General

In a pretty startling revelation, the NY Times discussed the recent controversy and internal debates over the current director, Dr. G. Peter Nanos. Amazingly, the threat to end the tenure of the director has come from employees vocalization through a blog.
“The blog’s creator is Doug Roberts, a computer scientist who is a 20-year laboratory […]



Da Vinci, Dan Brown, Cryptography, and Security

By Emile • Apr 27th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

For some reason, such things all ways seem to stumble upon my lap in the few moments I do have to breathe and relax and actually PUT THE COMPUTER DOWN. Thanks to the online shenanigans of Matt Mullenweg (aka The Godfather of Wordpress), I was sucked into the online world of The Da Vinci […]



And The Oscar Goes To: “The Silence Of The Blog”

By Emile • Apr 26th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

There are strange and funny things that happens when Google suddenly REALLY likes your blog/site. In the midst of doing some refinement on Elvgren, Taft, iRent, and a yet to be announced FileMaker product, suddenly everyone in the US needs help managing and getting up to speed with their new iPod. We’ve been […]



Spammers On The Prowl

By Emile • Apr 22nd, 2005 • Category: Blogging, General

Anyone with a Wordpress 1.5 Dashboard was sure to notice the post from Weblog Tools with regard to “Spammers Getting Braver”. I would personally choose the word audacious or ballsy, but nonetheless, the post links to the ramblings of K-Squared whereby one of the bloggers was spammed by someone pretending to be the proprietor of […]



The Themes: I haven’t forgotten

By Emile • Apr 14th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, General

It would seem like I’ve dropped off the face of the Earth, but truth be told I’ve been re-engorging myself in the Wordpress theme architecture for a couple of reasons:

To produce decent code that validates
To come up with some aesthetic enhancements and refinements to the Elvgren and Taft UIs
To see how far I can push […]



Technorati Tags: Yay, I finally GET them !

By Emile • Apr 13th, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

Wow, it took long enough and, amazingly, it doesn’t seem like this feature is built-in to Wordpress, but given Wordpress’ extensible and open source nature, I found a customization/hack (though, I really wouldn’t call it a ‘hack’ per se) to Wordpress that produces the perfect code for Technorati tags within the Wordpress post publishing interface. […]



How to install Taft

By Emile • Apr 5th, 2005 • Category: Blogging

I’m noting a number of search queries hitting the site asking “How to install Taft”. I imagine fairly new Wordpress users are uncertain as to how exactly one uploads and selects a theme. I’ll write a more length post on the matter, but just to get the new users up to speed, Taft […]



Taft 1.0 - How to proceed?

By Emile • Apr 1st, 2005 • Category: Blogging, Design, General

Ok, so the feedback has been tremendous to Taft 1.0 (at least, from my point of view) and I really want it to be compatible for everyone’s purposes. Vkaryl has been especially helpful on many things, most especially IE PNG support (I wouldn’t know where to begin had she not posted his helpful […]