working with WordPress 1.5 themes
A very nice newbie-friendly article on designing your own themes for WordPress. Will get to it when the school holidays are here again. 😛
All systems go!
YES! Thanks to this tip on creating true static pages for WordPress 1.5, I have been able to get the About Me and Tech sections looking right again with just minor tweaking! Then I rearranged the ordering of the menu items in the default theme’s sidebar.php and..voila! It is all as it should be now. 🙂 BTW I also came across another way of adding static pages to WP over here.
Wikis
Noticed the profileration of Wikis these days, especially for the user documentation on several websites. Some day I will figure out the pedagogical applications, but for now I’ll digest what this article has to say. ONLamp.com: Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?
Computer slang
Well I’ve heard of “words” like n00b, w00t and kewl (no thanks to my 1.5-year experience as a Diablo 2 addict on Battle.net, but apparently there’s a lot more of such “vocabulary” going around. Check out this parent’s primer to computer slang, published by…gasp!…none other than Microsoft itself. hmm, no wonder many of my students’ vocabulary and spelling absolutely suxx. :-O
Retro blogging
This piece on blogging software roundup may be almost 2 years old, but it certainly reflects just how much the blogging landscape has changed in so short a time.
Mac mini vs Shuttle SFF
Didn’t realise just how small the Mac mini is till I saw this picture at this review by Tom’s Hardware Guide