I’m off work, but I’m working…

Saturday December 29, 2007 at 1:59 am | Filed under On the Web, Site

While we await the arrival of our new bundle of joy, I’ve had some time off of work to get some things done. Well, not every day… today I sat around a lot. I did set up the cool baby intercom thing and played some Rock Band. I really just looked up at the time on my screen and realized it was Saturday. Where did that week go?

I’m spending some of the time I’m waiting building a few web sites. One is for me and two are for others. I’m using Wordpress for two of them and I always find cool new stuff when I filter through the community to update the plugins I usually use. For example…

  • WPhone, or Wordpress Phone is a very cool plugin that put your Wordpress admin interface in the palm of your hand. It’s a must use if you like blogging on the go. It works beautifully on the iPhone and it says it works on other mobile phones too. Take a look at it here.
  • TinyMC, which is the WYSIWYG editor for wordpress is something I’m looking into to develop my own button for so that I can have an easy way to embed photos and use that cool lightwindow effect. I’m trying to borrow (i.e., hack) from this plugin to accomplish this.
  • ms_lightwindow is the plugin I just mentioned which I’ve modified a little to use on this site here. You have to do some manual work for this one (until I can get that custom button done), but it’s worth it. That’s here.

In other blogging news, I understand you poor saps who are using Internet Explorer don’t see this site as it should and that’s a shame. This theme that I’m using has a few problems with the IE so it might be time to change it up again. So sad. But change is good!

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3 Responses to “I’m off work, but I’m working…”

  1. Linda Says:
    December 29th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

    Greetings fellow Dec 30th parents-to-be…

    Four years ago I sat like you (well, more like Monique) waiting and waiting knowing Dec 30th was *the* date - for us at least. Now we’re getting ready for our first Emily birthday party. We put away all the Christmas decorations so we can be in full there’s-no-such-thing-as-too-pink-or-sparkly mode. Tomorrow another 6 or so 3-7 year olds will descend upon our already crazy house and we will be hosting a fabulous princess tea party complete with etiquette lessons and princess karaoke.

    We’ll be thinking of you guys tomorrow. Hopefully there will be another Dec 30th birthday (and 2007 tax deduction) to celebrate!!!

    Linda & Jim

  2. Doug Stewart Says:
    December 30th, 2007 at 6:15 am

    Joe:
    Glad to hear that you’re enjoying WPhone. We’re still awed by folks’ reception to it.

    We’re working on a 1.5 version that should see release sometime soon, although there’s a bunch of changes going into the admin backend for WordPress 2.4 and so we’re not quite sure how WPhone will be affected.

    Thanks again for the mention!

    -Doug Stewart
    WPhone Plugin developer

  3. Tim and Denise Says:
    January 3rd, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Is there a baby yet?????????????????????????????????

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