Mushroom Attack!


Warning: Wearing the ThinkGeek 1up Mushroom T-shirt does not guarantee reincarnation.

Thanks to Chris who gave me the vouchers I used to buy this t-shirt 🙂

WordPress 1.5 installed

Yup… it’s all installed. I’ve installed it, configured it, and decided I liked Kubrick (the default WordPress 1.5 theme) enough to just hack it into a site I like, not to mention how lazy I am… So here you have it. It’s not totally Kubrick, but it smells like Kubrick.

I’m loving the 1.5 action. I love how plugins just add themselves to the menu bar in the admin panel. I love the dashboard. I love Pages. I love the Presentation tab.

One cool thing I discovered about Kubrick is it has a few CSS classes for adding images to posts, namely .aligncenter, .alignleft and .alignright… I’ve been meaning to add these kinds of classes to Webfroot for a while, but then again, we don’t post nearly as many images as we could…

Don’t mind the mess

As you well know, WordPress 1.5 was released today, so I’ve upgraded inner.geek. If there’s mess around in the next hour or so, don’t worry, I’m in the process of tidying up…

WordPress Plugin: Smart Unread Comments

As seen on Webfroot and this site, now in WordPress Plugin form!

Current Version: 1.3

What it does
Creates a list of posts with comments that haven’t been read by the user since their last visit/session. Uses cookies to track users last visit – no database required!

How it works:
Users are issued cookies which are used to track last visit. If this is their first visit, all comments in the last 14 days are unread. The plugin generates a list of unread comments. It keeps track of the user’s read posts for the session, removing them from the list as the user goes. Each page load updates the last unread timestamp cookie. Users can also mark all comments as read.
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Optimus Prime says…


Optimus Prime says… Uploaded to Flickr by Glutnix.

I found this on Manners Mall. It’s part of a display called Sugarcube, which consists of a wooden cube with sugar sachets stapled to it. Each sugar sachet was drawn on by someone in a Cuba St cafe. The cube is locked in a transparent perspex display, protected from the elements.

I saw this photo, immediately thought of my friend Matt, snapped it, uploaded it to Flickr, then sent the url to Tuatha who confirmed that it was indeed doodled by Matt because Tuatha was there when Matt drew it.

Update: Taniwha took more photos of Sugarcube