Summer May Finally Be Here
Filed Under Photo Journal
You can see it in the colours of the plants that are growing outside the building in which Erik and I work.
This is an example of the best graffiti I’ve ever seen.
Totally, totally awesome.
Every morning I commute from Seattle to Bellevue for work. It’s not a long drive (but it’s a rather lengthy bus ride), and this morning, Erik and I were treated to a gorgeous view from the east span of the Interstate 90 bridge (between Mercer Island and Bellevue), looking south over Lake Washington.
Getting Used to Wordpress
Filed Under Blog, Meta, Web Standards & Design
I’ve been running this site for five years, almost six, and I’m sick of manually maintaining something as complex as a blog - the tedious process of posting a new article to my site is the biggest deterrent from writing. And that’s when I remembered WordPress, which didn’t sound “fantastic” at the time, but I gave it a shot, anyhow.
So does it Rock, or Not?!
I really thought I’d hate WordPress. I honestly did. It looked like a combination of Blogger and LiveJournal. Now, I will own up to the fact that I’ve kept a LiveJournal for over five years, but I would also rather stick a fork in my eye than try and integrate LiveJournal with my site.
Okay, it rocks
I was WRONG. WordPress? It’s absolutely phenomenal. It validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict straight out of the box - no bull. You can make your own design OR use one of the tons of design templates available. And it’s FREE. No advertising whatsoever. I’m amazed.
OS X 10.4 Dashboard Widget Available
One of the biggest things I wanted to be able to do was post to my site without a hassle. WordPressDASH is a simple, easy-to-use dashboard widget that allows you to post from a small window in Dashboard. It’s already indespensible.
Mint-egration
It doesn’t stop there, either. I use Mint to monitor/analyze my web traffic, but it has a little trouble working with WordPress - I was going to be seriously bummed out, too, until I saw that someone had developed a WordPress Plugin Module that SPECIFICALLY is designed to integrate Wordpress and Mint - no hassle, no validation issues!
Seriously, it rocks
Really. WordPress really rocks hard. It’s free, you can’t beat that. It’s easy to install, easy to use, easy to set up and easy to customize. It’s standards compliant and fully functional. And fun! So expect to hear a lot more from me, I’m thrilled with how well this is working out!
I’ve been trying to go out more lately. Last weekend, I gathered up Erik (my best friend/roommate) for some moral support, got dressed up, and headed down to the Noc Noc for what I thought was Industrial/Rivet/EBM night. I was surprised to find out, once we got there, that it was in fact Gothic/Darkwave night and the music was lame and slow, so we stayed for a little while to hang out with some friends before heading up to The Vogue where my friend Doug (also known as DJ Eternal Darkness) was spinning some bouncy crunchy oontz-y music that I could totally groove to.
So, tonight, we were a little bored, so we went down to the Vogue for New Wave/Synthpop night and had a blast. Erik couldn’t stop dancing, every time he wanted to sit down another song would come on that he had to dance to. I didn’t dance so much but I had a good time anyway just being out and grooving to the music.
I’m digging this whole “going out” thing. I always like going out, and I almost always have fun, but I really don’t like going out by myself, so Erik’s new-found appreciation of “social functions” is pretty handy. Damn I’m in a good mood!
