June 17th, 2010 | 9:52 am
I just updated the site to WordPress 3.0. Please let me know if you run into any problems.
I also decided to turn off comments on my posts. I no longer have the desire to spend time dealing with spam comments and I don’t get very many comments that aren’t spam (and get even fewer useful comments).
There will be some other changes coming soonish as well. Stay tuned.
May 29th, 2010 | 10:30 am
Nana at my uncle’s house in December 2009.
It seems like it was just yesterday that I got the call about my dad and, early this morning, I got another one telling me that my grandmother (my mom’s mom) passed away at around 10 AM Eastern time.
I really, really wish my family members would stop dying unexpectedly :-(
Rest in peace, Nana. I love you.
May 8th, 2010 | 4:56 pm
In case you haven’t noticed, I rolled out a few site changes earlier this afternoon. Here’s a breakdown of what’s changed and what’s new:
Another thing I’d never been totally happy with was the font I was using in the logo and headlines. So I took some time earlier and found one I liked. I’m now using the excellent Astonished font from Misprinted Type.
I was never really happy with the previous nav layout and have been too lazy to turn it into a tabbed look so I moved it up into the header.
Since the nav is now in the header, I moved the search box over to the sidebar. I also moved the random photo out of the footer and into the sidebar. While I was at it, I got rid of the ugly-ass Playstation Network badge. It’s always bugged me that I couldn’t change how it looked (I really want to be able to customize it like the Xbox Live badge). So, until there’s an API or the trophy data is scrapeable and I can control how it looks, it had to go.
Since I moved the random photo to the sidebar, I opened a slot in the footer for something I’ve been meaning to add for a while. It’s nothing fancy, just a list of the stuff I’ve come across and found useful enough to share.
Comments are now automatically turned off after 90 days. Sorry folks, but the few useful ones I get are far outweighed by the number of spam comments I have to moderate.
April 28th, 2010 | 4:11 pm
Since I can’t figure out a way to share my wishlist via iTunes, I thought I’d post it here. If you want to show me some love, feel free to use the “Gift This App” functionality in iTunes ;) My email address (iTunes will ask for it) is mij@soupnazi.org.
Note: Prices below reflect the prices in the App Store as of April 28, 2010.
April 16th, 2010 | 10:11 am
One of the huge things on my plate at work over the last few months was to build a new Photoshop Elements Techniques web site. I’m happy to say that the site launched a little over a week ago—and, yes, I’m a little late with this post. Here’s a preview (click the image to visit the site):
The entire site was built on WordPress (with the exception of the gallery and store, and those will be handled by WordPress soonish). I won’t get into too many details about how it works, but I will say that, in places, I had to seriously bend WordPress to my will to make things work the way we wanted. Overall though, I’m extremely happy that we’re using WordPress.
Jim Mock is a web developer living in Portland, Oregon with his wife, twin sons, 3 dogs, and 2 cats. He has been a Boston Red Sox fan for as long as he can remember, is addicted to video games and web standards, and thinks you should be, too.
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