Asymptomatic

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MicroWiki 2.0?
February 27, 2006

MicroWiki is not a plugin.

It seems like I’ve been working on MicroWiki forever. There are many complex and nuanced emotions for me surrounding MicroWiki. I use it for nearly everything that I don’t do with WordPress, so you can imagine how that might affect my feelings toward it.

At the same time, I’ve bashed the code to death. “Spindle” and “mutilate” are the words I would use to best describe the things I do routinely with MicroWiki after I get it installed somewhere. And every time I think “Hey, this is nearly ready for packaging!” I think of something else that it really should be doing better than it does, and I end up merging code from four different sites to get a revision with everything I’ve added.

In fact, I’ll lay it out for you right here and now: You will not understand this code, even though it runs.

That said, if you want a wiki, maybe this is for you, and maybe it isn’t.

Countdown 1.3 and the Plugin Version Service
February 24, 2006

On the #wordpress channel on IRC, someone had requested some adjustments to the Countdown plugin that I wrote a while back, so I took a look at that project and decided to make a few small updates.

Countdown displays a list of dates to remember. You create a list of events, and Countdown outputs those events on your blog. The events can recur, so you can put in single dates like “06-04 Owen’s Birthday (Observed)” and it will show that on the same day every year.

There are some more complex recurring settings, too, like the ever helpful:

1st sun apr Daylight Savings Starts

Note that this event recurs on the first Sunday of every April.

Previous users will recognize these settings from before, but I have added a few new little things to sweten up the plugin.

Food Culture
February 23, 2006
food

'1991 Shafer Hillside Select' by Thomas HawkMaybe Abby has it right.

A year or two ago, I mentioned to friends that I was getting tired of using food as an event. It seemed that every time there was a special occasion, we would celebrate by eating something. The meal was usually dinner, and we were usually eating out at a nicer or unusual restaurant.

It’s not that the food wasn’t good, or the company wasn’t good, or the setting wasn’t good - What bothered me is that every time we were doing something, a big deal was made about food.