I’m so chuffed with the new Wu Wei (無爲) theme from WordPress.
Chuffed, chuffed, chuffed. So glad to be rid of that awful drop shadow nonsense.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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Nicked this off sputnik scribbles.
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The Blogalyser reveals…
Your blog/web page text has an overall readability index of 17.
This suggests that your writing style is intellectual (to communicate well you should aim for a figure between 10 and 20). Your text contains 15 sentences, which suggests your general message is distinguished by verbosity (writing for the web should be concise).
CHARACTER MATRIX
| male |   |
female |
| self |    |
world |
| past |    |
future |
Your text shows characteristics which are 56% male and 44% female (for more information see the Gender Genie).
Looking at pronoun indicators, you write mainly about the world in general, then your social circle and finally yourself. Also, your writing focuses primarily on the past, next the future and lastly the present.
Finally a theme with a proper navbar for categories, and one that I, the CSS illiterate, can customize without breaking it too much.
Expect more tweaks as I figure this thing out…
I have long wanted to remove the sidebar on this blog. Today, the compulsion gnawed at me all day, and so I did.
Suddenly, the content takes center stage, and having nothing except these posts on the page is like a breath of fresh air.
I like it.
Because it becomes less about who writes the words or takes the image than what is written or captured, and because it represents the first step towards the eventuality that hangs in the air. To you, it may be merely a design tweak. A random one, even.
But if you know me well enough, you’ll know I don’t do random. Something is brewing on the horizon…
Hi Apple. If you’re reading this, how about an iPhone 3GS for me to evangelize on your behalf?
The 32 GB white model, please.
There’s something about this P2 theme that I like. Maybe it’s because the default font is Helvetica Neue, or maybe it’s the Twitter-inspired look and feel.
The P2 theme is really nice from a blog author’s point-of-view, with its AJAX-like live updates of posts and comments, and the post box up there at the top of the main body is really nifty.
But I was just alerted to the fact that this theme doesn’t scale well when viewed on the iPhone; you can’t double-tap to zoom in and out. Bugger.
The screengrab on the left shows how the P2 theme loads in Mobile Safari. It doesn’t reflow to fit the iPhone screen, and double-tapping to zoom out doesn’t work, unlike the Sandbox theme as seen in the screengrab on the right.
I’ll leave this on for a couple of days and see if the cannot-zoom-in-iPhone problem bugs me or not. Considering how I blog from only my iPhone these days, it probably will.
Fuck it; the inability to zoom is really annoying, so it’s back to the old theme. That, and the fact that all of you have made it loud and clear your dislike of the new theme. But I’m liking Helvetica Neue too much I’m slipping it into the previous layout.
Ok, business as usual…
To each and everyone who has written in requesting the password to those protected entries, I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint you. Those posts are for my eyes only.
So why post them onto the main page? It’s for my convenience, really.
In some rare instances, some of them will be for a select few. If you are one of them, you’d already know the password.
Have you ever revisited your past work and cringed at everything you saw?
It is barely past lunch time, and I’ve already run out of cringes for the day.
This is six years’ worth of selected blog entries.
One faint line across the bottom of each post makes the page so much more readable.
I should’ve thought of this earlier.
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34, male and very Cancerian. Often irascible, even if he is prescient to his emotions. Lives for the resonance of beautiful passages, cinematic magic and aural bliss. Dabbles in fiction writing, photography, sketching and daydreaming in his free time, even though he is paid to do just those in a professional capacity.
He is, in other words, quite a geek.
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Punk’d by WordPress :P
So… WordPress rolled out this cool new feature, ‘Comment Reply Via Email’, a week ago, right? Whenever someone posts a comment on your blog, WordPress sends you an email notification, and, instead of clicking on a reply link within the email to fire up the browser (like how it was done before), you can now hit “Reply” in your e-mail client and send off a reply email that WordPress will parse and post as a comment made by you on your blog.
All in all, pretty neat, and a great time-saver. Except when I tried out the feature for the first time just a while ago, WordPress happily went and included my email signature—containing my real name, address and cell phone number—as part of my reply, details I definitely do not want published on my blog.
That’s not so cool, since I now have to manually delete the signature that my email client automatically inserts into every new composition every time I reply to a comment. Maybe the folks at WordPress should consider configuring their servers to recognize the
--that typically precedes a signature as the end of the text in a comment reply. This way, users get the option of whether their signatures get included or not simply by tweaking their signatures accordingly.So, for all of you intending to use this feature, remember to delete in your reply email all that you don’t wish to be included as part of your comment reply. Quoted text in the reply email is automatically ignored, however, so you don’t have to fret about having to delete that whole chunk of quoted text.
Update 14.05.09
‘Comment Reply Via Email’ is supposed to automatically parse out signature blocks just like the new ‘Post by Email‘ feature. Matt Mullenweg responded to my post in the comment threads on that page, advising that there is a bug that is preventing this from working correctly.
Thank you, Matt.