I’m off for vacation until June 2nd, most likely without ‘net access.
See you ladies when I get back!
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
Over on Digg, I saw the story How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning.
Now, without even reading the actual story, I can tell you (cynically, sure) exactly how he does it. Are you ready for this? Alright then… Here’s the answer:
How Scoble Really Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning:
He doesn’t have a real job.
Now go find me someone with a real 8-5 job that actually expects them to get real work done and produce real results or they really get fired and who still has time to read 622 RSS feeds each morning and I’ll be impressed.
Watch your heads!
Update: Looks like everything upgraded without a hitch… Not that I expected otherwise. 
Update 2/3/08: The links below are broken. There’s a new version of the Garland theme available here!
Attention all Garland-wanters! The Wordpress.com adaptation of the Garland theme is now available for stand-alone Wordpress 2.2 installations.
I know a lot of people have been disappointed after actually downloading the raw SVN-exported version from my previous post, and I finally took the time to check into what was wrong. Surprisingly, it didn’t really take long at all to get things working once I had a few minutes of solid thinking-time.
I have tested this theme and verified it to be fully working on my local test installation of Wordpress 2.2, YMMV. If you notice any oddities, feel free to let me know. I can’t promise I’ll actually fix them, but I’ll at least read them…
Changes
- Fixed broken and missing Javascript includes that are required by the color-picker in the admin panel.
- Corrected several URLs to images and stylesheets that had been hard-coded using relative paths so that they now correctly retrieve the stylesheet directory’s URI.
- Added my lovely info to the credits.
Once again, I’ve tested these changes enough to release them, but I can’t guarantee it’ll work under every configuration. There’s really nothing terribly odd about this setup, but you never know…
Download
You can download the zip file here: garland-1.1.zip garland-1.1.2.zip
2.2 Only!
Please note that this theme requires the newly-released Wordpress 2.2, as it relies upon the jQuery Javascript library which was not included in prior versions.
If, however, you wish to place a copy of jquery.js in your wp-content/themes/garland/ directory, you should simply be able to un-comment line 39 in functions.php. I haven’t, however, tested this at all… Please let me know how it goes if you try.
Inside the Monkeysphere
Thanks to reddit, I found Inside the Monkeysphere earlier. This really reminds me of the ultimate “incoherent babble” I originally tried to pull off on this blog - a lot of totally random comments, all rolled into one big story that actually, sometimes, has a point.
I highly recommend the read, particularly if you need a little chuckle. Throughout the laughter, try and remember that the whole process actually makes sense.