I have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 which was made literally as simple as clicking a button by my fine hosts, dreamhost. Most everything seems to have gone smoothly, but you may notice that a few bits and bobs have disappeared from the sidebar for the time being. These will return soon, in addition to a cornucopia of new goodies - in fact I’ve gone for a three-column layout so I can fit loads more crap functionality onto the blog.
Adding lots of pointless blog bling (’blong’? - maybe not…) is made trivially easy as I am using the most excellent K2 theme which, along with being super-easy to customize (thanks to the ’styles’ features which allows you to create a new stylesheet which overrides the k2 defaults without touching the core files) and ‘pimp out’ (thanks to the kick-ass k2-sidebar manager which lets you drag-and-drop modules into the sidebars, set which pages they appear on, and more - including running PHP scripts inside the page) also features some rather nifty , jquery-powered AJAX-y functionality - check out the advanced search or click the ‘«older’ link at top of page for two examples.
Continue reading ‘Redecorating…and the joys of Wordpress’
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My lovely, talented sis-in-law Dana is guest blogging this week at Vanderworld, the blog of writer Jeff VanderMeer, where she will tell you stuff about her recently published debut novel The Steam Magnate. Go check it out! Read an excerpt from said novel!
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I know EVERYONE is blogging about how they are not blogging these days, so once again I am slavishly following trends, but I haven’t been blogging much lately (unless you count embedding videos and songs, which frankly I don’t). I started blogging back in 99, before blogging software, you know, old skool, and I guess I just ran out of steam…
So, I’ve been thinking I really need something to kick me in the pants and get me blogging again, I recall I used to rather enjoy it. Thank the intarwebs, then, that November has been decreed NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month - motto ‘Post or Die!’), as brought to my attention by Banjeroo. We’re just going to ignore the ‘National’ bit and pretend that it is GloBloPoMo.
I’m totally going to blog every day next month. Or die trying.
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According to the Eide Neurolearning Blog, blogging is good for your brain in at least five ways: Brain Of The Blogger. To summarise, the authors found reasonable grounds for suggesting:
- Blogs can promote critical and analytical thinking.
- Blogging can be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking.
- Blogs promote analogical thinking.
- Blogging is a powerful medium for increasing access and exposure to quality information.
- Blogging combines the best of solitary reflection and social interaction.
They conclude:
[I]t looks as if blogging will be very good for our brains. It holds
enormous potential in education, and it could take societal
communication and creative exchange onto a whole new level.
Sounds good to me. It’s all about the mutually-synergistic non-zero sum collaborative game-playing and emergence of a hyperconnected global consciouness (noosphere) on the way to our evolution as truly enlightened, spiritual beings, baby.
Sorry, I’ve been reading Techgnosis again…
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