My Summer In Review
I’m ready to go. All of my things are packed and in a matter of hours I’ll be heading to Sea-Tac airport to fly back to Terre Haute. It’s been a great summer.
I’m ready to go. All of my things are packed and in a matter of hours I’ll be heading to Sea-Tac airport to fly back to Terre Haute. It’s been a great summer.
A couple days ago I wrecked my car. This is a frustrating event under any circumstances, but it is exceptionally inconvenient for me because I’m supposed to be making the two thousand mile drive to Seattle a couple days from now. [More]
Many people have been complaining recently about all the privacy issues with Facebook. There’s even a group of people promising to quit using Facebook after May 31st. At the time I’m writing this, they have just under 5 thousand people who have promised to quit. While that’s a fairly impressive number, it’s still only about 0.00125% of the Facebook population. There was a short time when I considered joining their ranks, but I eventually decided against it. Here is some of the rationale behind my decision.
The end of my sophomore year is quickly approaching (the main reason I haven’t posted in a while) and I’m pretty excited about what life holds for me this summer and beyond. As you may have noticed, I have a new counter on the right-hand side of my blog. In a little more than 2 weeks I’ll be on my way to Seattle!
As you may have seen, I launched a new blog about a week and a half ago to track how much sleep I’m getting. I think tracking my sleeping patterns has helped me get more rest, but that’s not really what this post is about.
I thought it might be interesting to talk about some of the customizations I made to the P2 WordPress theme that I’m using.
My sleep patterns have been ridiculous this quarter, so I’ve decided to track how much I actually sleep from today on.
I’m using P2, a theme developed by Automattic, along with a plugin I developed to automatically parse and track sleep hours from my posts. The running total will be displayed on the sidebar of the new site, as well as here.
Right then, I’ll let you get to it.
Right then, I’ve created a new plugin and I’m tired, so I’m going to go away now and let you read the description.
Here’s a direct download link if you’re really curious.
The WordPress installation process is already incredibly simple, but because I often find myself setting up fresh installations of WordPress for various reasons, I decided to make it even easier.
The following script takes a folder name as an argument, creates that folder in the website root (specified in a config variable of the script), downloads and extracts the latest version of WordPress into that folder, and runs the WordPress install. Finally, it sets the admin password to the password specified in another config variable and removes the password change nag.
Nearly a month has transpired since my last post, but I finally have a chance to write something. This post will be more personal than technical., so don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Today is CSS Naked Day, a day when web enthusiasts remove all CSS styling to show the world what CSS does for us. Everything will be back to “normal” tomorrow.
You can learn more about CSS Naked day here.