I’ve reached a critical mass with incoming e-mail. In GTD, we are encouraged to doing something immediately if it will take 2 minutes or less, but responding to 50-100 e-mails a day really bites into the time I can spend actually coding. The problem is volume – I need to cut down the amount of…
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I think it’s fair to say I completely underestimated the response I would get to the WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition. Last year’s Styles Competition produced 39 submissions – which really seemed like a lot at the time because there were few if any before then. I thought doubling the number of last year’s entries would…
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Awesome, awesome, awesome! The WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition received 139 entries (and may get one or two more). Check out the details in the theme competition blog.
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I’ve finally upgraded to WordPress 1.5 (plus a few patches). Would you believe that I’d still been running 1.0.1 (with a few security fixes)? I never upgraded to 1.2.x because of the slashes bug, so it’s nice to be current again. A few notes: This fix got trackbacks working for me. I implemented the alternate…
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I hadn’t checked recently, but (at least 30 seconds ago) I was in the top spot for an “alex” search on Google, Yahoo and MSN. Also good to see Tasks on top of the heap. Yahoo has already processed the 301 redirect from alexking.org to kingdesign.net. Google had earlier, but seems to be a little…
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I’m applying more of my previous changes to the upgraded forums. So far I’ve added the category name (Tasks, Photos, etc.) to the topic and forum views. I also moved the Active Topics list to the top with a little cookie action to remember if it is hidden or shown. Bringing back the full content…
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When I first launched this web site, I spent quite a bit of time looking at my traffic stats and referer logs. I don’t do that very often anymore (the novelty has worn off a bit), but it’s nice when I do check to see that the number of daily vists has been steadily climbing…
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The last few months I’ve been completely swamped with work. Combine the contract work with my own software development and work on my new web site and handling sales and support e-mails and it’s the reason that the new versions of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks haven’t been released yet. I’m already turning down work and…
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I’ve gotten some great comments on recent posts that I wanted to point back at. Google Maps Bookmarklet – some great alternative solutions. Profont – more recommendations for programming fonts. USB Bluetooth Adapter – a few good tips. Thanks so much for the great input everyone, feedback like this is one of the best things…
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I’ve upgraded to forums to PunBB 1.2.1. The RSS feeds for the forums are offline until I get around to rewriting them. If the forums look funny, refresh your CSS.
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My first participation in a meme , blame Scott. Go to bloglines (don’t think you need to have an account). Find your own blog on bloglines (if it’s not there you can sign up and add it I guess, if you don’t have a blog this one’s not for you). Click related feeds (each time…
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Well, I’ve got my first year of self-employment under my belt now and I’m looking forward to year number two. 2004 was great. I worked my tail off at times, but was also able to go golfing in the morning on a Tuesday if I needed to get some sunshine. Of course, when you’re self-employed,…
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I got my business cards from GotPrint today. All in all, I’m pleased with almost every aspect of doing business with them. The card stock is quick thick and strong, the glossy side is very glossy, the cutting seems uniform and consistent and the print is clean and crisp on the front. I even got…
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For some reason I wasn’t able to change the number of copies to be printed in the little HP 6110 print dialog. A reboot of the PowerBook fixed this, but I did a few searches first to see if this was a known bug. I didn’t find any information about this as a known problem,…
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Last February I started looking at using my old PowerMac G4 (dual 500mhz, gigabit ethernet model) as a live backup server since I’d moved to the PowerBook full time for development. Nine months later, I’ve finally done it! I know several people that have recently had drives fail on them; it was time to move…