I have just completed the update to the theme on jacktams.co.uk, I am now running the latest version of K2 and Unsleepable with my mods on top.
And as you will probably see as you browse around there is some nice AJAX improvements that K2 brings to WordPress. I am still working on some finishing touches but I am very pleased with the new theme since I now have got it to work by deleting all the K2 records from the options database.
Larry Bodine’s LawMarketing Blog: Mac Aficionados In Flames About Critical Article
I draw you attention to Mr Larry Bodine, who’s supposed to be ‘intelligent’ his wonderful articles are floating around the internets right now.
I can honestly say without getting too mac fanboy like, he doesn’t have a clue about anything with a microchip in it PowerPC, Intel, or otherwise. I aren’t going go into specifics but the comments made and the justification that mac is the ‘betamax’ of the 21st century are unwarranted, unjustified and aren’t backed up with an eloquent article in short, Larry You should be ashamed and also there are better ways to boost site traffic than flaming the mac folk around the world.
It amazes me that these people can actually make money.
I shall leave you with one last comment:
Regarding the inability to read Flash, I even telephoned Apple and asked about a plug-in for it. As I stated in the article, the Apple help desk said no improvements in Safari were planned
Hmm, need I say more. Flash not in safari, thats strange I was playing that game on miniclip with yes thats right Flash Player right in Safari (goody I have a special version of Safari)
I hope to update the sites theme with the new version of K2 as soon as a couple of bugs are squashed specifically the modules being un-editable and my archives not working. I have got the theme ready to go and will update when its fixed.
I decided since theres nothing majorly wrong with the site as it is, I will continue the current theme running the mods I have on it, but the newer version available from openswitch.org, admittedly I had already hacked some of the stuff into this version. It will be nice not having to do it again 🙂
I’ll keep working on it and it will be just a case of dropping it in when its ready.
So Apple have a new (Product) Red Nano, and there has been an uproar against the miniscule $10 apple is giving per iPod, without me getting ranting and annoying.
Where would the campaign be without Apple, fair enough it is a small amount but Apple is Cool and also everywhere, if you haven’t got an ipod your nobody, so the upshot of that being free advertising. Its like FCUK putting slogans on the front of t-shirts that you need to read twice to make sure what they actual say. Red iPod, does good and also gives the publicity it needs to get more companies on board, in short never think one sided about these things.
My Dream App » Live Voting Results
College is really messing up my stream of incoming information, I have totally missed MyDreamApp Round 4. If you haven’t voated already like me just until a minute ago then do it. Now!
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports that the glass Cube Apple erected earlier this year on New York’s tony Fifth Ave, dubbed Apple Mecca by many of the Mac faithful, is offensive to Muslims Muslim community offended by Apple’s Fifth Avenue NYC Cube – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
We are fast becoming a world wide culture of everything that we do offends somebody or other and that if we moan it will change something. The simple fact is de-railing a project simple because it offends is not good enough.
Also the fact there are so many people/organisations that it becomes a vicious cycle. The internet has gave us many things a place to voice or concerns and a place were everybody is heard, but it also a place were disinformation and exaggeration is rife, using the example above when has any apple Genius Bar every served Alcoholic Beverages.
A Little Knowledge is dangerous. So is a lot. – Albert Einstein
Sony Warned on Future by ex-chairman
Ah, Sony my not favorite company of the world. You really do like rubbing in the fact Europeans “Historically don’t mind waiting for new consoles” this is the europe known as the dark ages under the sea, because it certainly aint the europe I live in.
On top of that the PS3 will bring sony to its knees, its already in debt and is banking on far too many new and untested technology, if they pull it of I will be very surprised. They have become too big and lost sight of there goals, ambition and creativity, the corporation strikes again.
And in the meantime Microsoft have released revised and relaunched the xbox 360 twice; who’s market leader now? and Nintendo just plod along doing there own thing and do it perfectly a bit like apple in more than just the design stakes.
Battlestar Galactica is about to start its 3rd series, I have just finished watching the second season, and all I have to say is its very good.
This weekend I got hold of the soundtracks to BSG, and they are fantastic, quite honestly one of the best soundtracks I have heard, and I think it is much like Doctor Who in the sense that the Music and Drama etc. makes each episode a small film in its own right. I cant wait for season 3.
Nine skills that separate good and great designers ~ Authentic Boredom
I never really took myself as much as a designer, I just know what looks good and what doesn’t and what works and doesn’t. I am starting to venture out into abit of web developing and learning a hell of alot along the way and really enjoying it.
I don’t think I am at the stage were I could confidently create a wordpress theme from scratch but I aren’t far off. Now, onto the link at the top of the page, I found it quite by accident (I can’t remember now how exactly I didi find it) Its an excellent presentation, and has some interesting stuff for anybody in design, whether it be a beginner, semi-beginner (me) or Experienced.
I am going to post something but not an extended bit of writing because I do run the risk of ranting.
Today is the day against DRM, yes that little thing iTunes that limits the music you bought, not because iTunes wants to control the market, but because the labels want to control the market.
Yes, thats right. The Labels. Why? may you ask well its simple, they were too late to the game napster and kazaa had been and gone by the time the labels saw the internet as a revenue stream and now the labels control and sue the next generation of consumers, tell me how this helps them make more money?
