How did I manage to let this food holiday slip? June 5 is National Donut Day! Looks like I’m going to have to stop by the local Krispy Kreme and pick up my freebie.
Caladiums on Deck
I’m catching up on my gardening activities from last week. This past Memorial Day weekend, I relocated the purple potato vines to their own pots to keep a couple of newcomers, caladiums, company. In their place I planted 2 Chocolate Chip Ajuga that I picked up from Walton’s Garden Center.
Eyecandy on the net
While working on ChopperJim.com, I’ve found some “good” web and design sites to feast your eyes on…
2advanced
Web Designer Wall
N.Design Studio
Noe Design Studio
Useful information as well.
W3C’s draft on XHTML
10 Steps to the Perfect Portfolio Website
Puppy-less
Puppy is now in the possession of the Plano Animal Shelter. It seemed like a nice place…I hope he finds his future family there.
It’s been a dismal weekend. Lots of peanut butter chocolate sammiches in the future.
Scratch that. Unhappiness = no eating.
Plugin hassles
I’ve been test-driving some social networking plugins such as Lifestream and the Facebook Dashboard Widget, and I’ve come to the conclusion that some of these things are just too user-unfriendly. As much as I like Lifestream, it appears that Facebook closed their API so that I can’t grab my status feeds from them. What does this mean? Well, it’s not the plugin’s fault that a well-known social networking site decided to shut off public access to feeds. But given that it is one of a few sites that I regularly check up on, would it be too much trouble to have an RSS feed work from it? At this point, I’m thinking I should just use blog RSS feeds, such as the one by Blogger, or a proprietary widget, from MySpace for example, to fill my sidebar.
Lifestream doesn’t work actually, it just fails to reload my dashboard page whenever I attempt to add a feed, so I’ve dropped it.
I found another annoyance: it seems that the newest Sidebar Login plugin is wreaking havoc with my sidebar formatting. I’ve rolled back to 2.1.7 to correct the issue, since I don’t have time right now to root around the code to fix it. Besides that, I dislike the gravatar image that was added in 2.2.1. It would be more appropriate in a personal site, but seems out of place in a multi-user portal site.