I wrote a Wiki yesterday. It’s under 25k in one file. I tried blearily to explain to Berta what a Wiki was this morning, and I don’t think she was impressed by my description.
A Wiki is a way that you can easily create linked pages without using a lot of HTML markup. The appeal is that you don’t have to know the HTML tags, and a lot of the building of the pages is accomplished by knowing a few simple rules.
Most people who read this blog probably don’t come here because of the WordPress plugins I’ve been writing. I’ll briefly explain. The software that I run this site with these days is called WordPress. You can write plugins for it that provide extra functionality.
One of the plugins I’ve written is called Exhibit. Exhibit is a pretty cool photo display plugin. With it, you can attach any number of photos to an individual post, and it will create thumbnails and popup links automatically. The cool little file picker makes it easy to upload and select files from your site. Short of embedding a dedicated gallery script, I would say that it’s the best thing out there for displaying photos in WordPress.
This is an old video I found in my downloads folder. It’s a humorous (ficticious) exchange between a veteran help-desk employee and a new trainee, who is learning the ropes on his first day.
“Has it booted up? No, sir, don’t kick your computer…”
While we were out at the mall the other night I got a pack of glow-in-the-dark stars to stick to the walls in Abby’s room. My thinking was that anything that makes her room a more interesting place to her at night is a good thing.
So we hung the stars aroudn the room. They’re not stickers, which is what I thought when I bought the box. They’re plastic stars with a small wad of that tacky stuff you use to hang posters. You stick a little bit to the back of each star and press it onto the wall.