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Posted on Wednesday, 5 November, 2008 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Get under the hood and see how this blog works.
In honor of the Obama election and Guy Fawkes Day, I’m releasing the theme and associated plugins that make my website function. Download it here.
Download d3.zip from my drop.io drop box.
The design for this blog is an alteration of an alteration. The Modicus Remix theme for WordPress is proving to be quite popular for an unsupported piece of open source brik-a-brak. Modicus Remix by Art Culture is a redesign of the theme Modicus by Upstart Blogger. I use a stripped down version of Modicus-Remix here, sexed up with a number of plugins, and slightly recoded to work better with WordPress 2.5 – 2.6.
I’m now averaging about one question a week regarding the sidebar, which it seems a lot of people aren’t getting to work in their copies of Modicus-Remix. Mine didn’t work out of the box and I literally just hacked it until it did. No, I didn’t document this process and don’t quite remember everything I changed. So goes the fun process of home blog creation. The theme in its present incarnation requires a couple of plugins for it to work. Disable those plugins and your sidebar goes wonky.
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Posted on Wednesday, 5 December, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
An old televised debate gets new life from even older footage from a Bruce Lee. Combines my twin loves of Kung-fu movies and a good ol’e smack down of a rabid right-wingnut. Norman Finkelstein scores knock-out roundhouse kicks in both rounds against Alan Dershowitz in this Democracy Now bout. Both The following clips, remixed by a Finkelstein fan, can be found at Norman Finkelstein’s own fun and informative website.
Round 1
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7692090652272623311&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en[/googlevideo]
Round 2
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2662524596099220183&hl=en[/googlevideo]
Wow. So I think it’s clear who has the Fu after that one.
Someone send Alan Dershowitz a copy of his friend Christopher Hitchens’ Why Orwell Matters before he uses “turnspeak” again.
Geek note: So I created this post to try out the Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin. I don’t mind it, but am looking for a plugin that renders video from YouTube, Google, iFilm, The Onion and so forth in the post editing panal so as to allow text-wrapping, alignment, etc. and doesn’t conflict with WordPress 2.3. Still, if you’re looking for a simple embedding tool, this one could work. Get more on it here.
Posted on Wednesday, 14 November, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
To celebrate drew3000.net’s upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1 today, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez (photographed at left with his posse) has called on oil-rich nations to dramatically reduce what they charge poor countries for the commodity. The poorest countries should only pay about $20 (£9.60) for a barrel of oil compared with current market prices of more than $90, Mr Chavez said. He added that this site’s mid-version update of the popular open source blogging platform provided an excellent platform from which to call on fellow OPEC members to set aside $100bn from oil revenues to improve education and health in poor nations.
We on the Drew3ooo technical team applaud this move by the controversial Bolivarian leader, but would suggest raising the price for oil accordingly on imports to “red” states in the U.S. where President Bush won either popular or electoral votes.
But about the WordPress upgrade…
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Posted on Sunday, 11 November, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
I always enjoy when a decent plugin comes with an equally inspired dose of Open Source anti-copyright agitprop, so this find of the Multiple Authors plugin by MCIncubus made me giddy.
Sitting her working on the RCF.org site, editing a blog entry for the group blog, Three Triscuits and Some Spinach, I was thinking to myself, boy it would be neat if there were some way WordPress could add multiple authors to a post. And then I remembered my own InterWeb Doctrine: “As soon as you think it should exist, it does.” And thus, one google query containing the words multiple authors and plugin led me to this find at boakes dot org. Not only did it lead to the plugin that I thught already should exist, it also included this line from, Boakes who was also thinking the exact same thing I was while I was looking for it:
This, in a nutshell is why open source software works. You don’t necessarily need to be able to code to make the system better, you just have to have the ideas and the community can pick them up, run with them, and often release code enhancements within 24 hours. Compare this to the slow world of single-vendor software where upgrades come around once per year if you’re lucky, and then you have to pay for them.
This is thinking aloud, and having your thoughts made reality, instantly.
Preach it from the mount, brother.
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).
