James Lloyd

Today has been so far great!. My new laptop charger has arrived for my macbook pro so i can use it instead of my Dell D620. Should note there is nothing really wrong with the Dell D620, its just not as great as the macbook, annoyingly one of those things all the mac vs pc reviews find it harder to put into words, the mac is just better for many reasons i cant really think of.

Note: one reason why pcs laptops are better than macs should be noted as their power supplies rarely melt them selves due to a design fault in the power supply.

Also yesterday my BT Anywhere HT 620 arrived, V cool, but the best bit whilst looking thought the docs that came with it is a nice little piece of paper saying “You know that 10Mb data limit, well actually its unlimited” So i have a Voice and data Mobile phone which can use sip, for £4 a month with unlimited data and a free £200 HTC phone thingy got to be bargain of the century.

Also in other news I brought my new son Ben home from the hostpital, both Ben and Sarah are sparko currently.

In the spirit of release early release often, if have made JLBP2 v0.1 availble for download. Its the exact code im currently using on this site, so clearly works (I think).

Download can be found here on the project page.

At the beginning of the week I started to create my own wordpress theme using the blueprint framework. Towards the end of this week, that theme is on its second version and has had a complete rewrite from scratch. The whole process has made me love Wordpress even more than I did, and now with blueprint all “FFS! its broken in IE again” woes have gone

I have updated the translation bar thingy, which can now be found in the header at the top of every page. I have stripped it bare so it should still be obvious what it does yet its far less obtrusive now

I’m currently torn with the widgets system, while its very handy, the fact you can only assign a widget to once is limiting. Hopefully wordpress will implement a system like the one in K2 which is much more flexible. The odds on me implementing one like K2 is slim to none at the moment. What I may do is create a config.php so that you can edit what appears where in block from inside wordpress, but lacking the nice UI (which is completely beyond me at this stage).

Have started a page here JLBP2 wordpress theme to monitor progress of features etc.