My resumé is very much out of date. For those of you wondering, I now work for The New Group. (Don’t hold our website against me—I would use a lot less Flash. It is getting updated soon.)
It has been a crazy first month at a company that is in the midst of some interesting changes and rapid growth. I’m really looking forward to the ride, though I can’t say I felt that way two weeks ago.
For those of you in the midst of change, give it a few weeks. It is amazing what you will learn if you allow yourself to go through at least one month worth of change with a group of people. I am really impressed with the team I am going to be working with. I can’t wait to see what we create.
I just completed a nearly painless upgrade to WordPress 2.5. I say “nearly painless” only because I managed to trigger a page error when attempting to upgrade a couple of plugins. (Apparently you have to deactivate a plugin before you upgrade it, which is a reasonable requirement, but it doesn’t say “deactivate first” anywhere.)
Technically, the actual 2.5 upgrade went off without a hitch thanks to WordPress Automatic Upgrade. Everything in my template just worked, which I couldn’t say after the 2.3 upgrade earlier this year.
So what is my favorite new feature? Well, so far it has to be the automatic plugin upgrade, but I am looking forward to using some fo the media features and the media browser is a clear improvement.
Treehugger is touting Permablitz: Near Instant Permaculture for the ‘Burbs. I don’t live in the ‘burbs, but I do live in a high density Portland neighborhood. My goal by the end of this summer is to have a highly productive front lawn. The first step in that plan is the walkway seen in this photo. Next is a rock retaining wall so that I can level things out and start planting.
While speaking with Jon Maroney at the last Mobile Portland event, he mentioned that he was hoping to get a rickshaw or similar pedal-powered vehicle for picking up clients from the airport. Jon, I think I’ve found your transport. The highly convertable Cycles M
aximus Trike seems like the perfect fit for bike-friendly Portland.
Now who’s going to import it? Clever Cylces? This seems right up their alley.
According to some wacky scientists out there, there is a possibility that turning on a really powerful nuclear device could have unexpected consequences. Pbbwfff!
[via TreeHugger]
In the course of handing off a project to another company, I just had the opportunity to say “just build them Boxes and Arrows on Drupal and they’ll be thrilled.” While I was merely using hyperbole to make a point, it got be thinking. What do they use to deliver their content?
The answer is PublicSquare. This is a subscription-based service for creating an online magazine with a community component. I’ve always like the layout and general functionality of Boxes and Arrows and now I know what they use to serve up their content.
I plan to look into this a bit more as the idea of a subscription-based magazine CMS intruiges me. I would have signed up for an account today, but it turns out that they have an expired security certificate on their account sign up page. I wonder if they know that? (It expired on December 6, 2007.)
Flock Browser - The Social Web Browser
Flock bills itself as the browser for people who like to be connected. Really, I just wanted a browser that I could run the Web Developer Toolbar in now that Firefox Beta 3 has disabled that valuable add-on.
A convergence of a whole gaggle of interests, MobileHippie.com is the personal blog of Josh Mitchell.