Archive for April 2008
New 9rules launches
9rules, the wonderful blogging network I belong too, has recently relaunched. In recent years their site has gone through various stages, becoming more and more complicated. With this version they have taken a step backwards, worked out what is important (the members… yay!) and thrown away* the rest.
In my opinion it’s all turned out great, and with the new members they have added (hopefully with more to come) things can only get better.
* by “thrown away” I mean moved ...
New Icon Set : Circular
Last week I released a new icon set over on Pro Theme Design. When I first started on the set I had two objectives. 1 – to spend some time learning how to make icons properly, and 2 – to make a set that I could reuse in future projects.
As time went on the set evolved and Circular was the result.
What went rightThe overall outcome was quite nice. I made a complete set of ...
New UK coin designs
The Royal Mint recently announced the new designs for UK coins and I’m incredibly impressed.
These coins are stunning. Obviously they look better in these photos since they’re nice and clean but the designs verge on abstract whilst still keeping the shape and colours we know. Place them correctly and they (kind of) make the Royal Arms heraldry.
They’re not in circulation yet but I think they’re great. Much more interesting than we normally get.
How to stop your Wordpress blog from being hacked (or banned by Technorati)
I got banned from Technorati a long time ago. Apparently releasing free themes is bad (and get’s lots of inbound links) only fair I guess
Anyway, Technorati have dropped off my radar recently, their constant redesigns and confused product are pushing people away, and since they’ve been dropped by Wordpress I don’t visit at all. The thing I am most interested in is the recent announcement that they’re “suspending” blogs using old versions of ...
Twitter me this
Unfortunately I have been dragged down into the world of Twitter. Twitter is a web app that enables people to talk rubbish at no-one in particular and then receive a response from someone they don’t know. I’ve never seen the point of it before. I don’t care that you’ve just eaten a croissant, or that you’re about to go to bed, but now that I’ve been using it for a few days I am slowly coming to understand the ...
Fun with Physics
There have been a couple of very cool physics toys released recently and since they’re fun to play with and free (and I like this sort of thing) I thought I’d give them a mention.
Phun with PhysicsThe first was a couple of weeks ago and is called Phun with Physics. It’s a wonderful free toy where you can build your own contraptions from the physics object and then release them into the world to interact with each other. You ...
Flying Penguins?
Film maker and writer Terry Jones discovers a colony of penguins, which are unlike any other penguins in the world
Ok – so it’s an April fool, but it took me a little while to realise. The animation and presentation look just like a normal BBC ident/ advert/ nature program. Very high quality. Apparently there is a video showing how they made it doing the rounds as well but I have yet to see that so far. ...
WordPress 2.5 Custom Login – get ‘em here!
A while ago I released a small plugin that ended up becoming quite popular, and then it broke. Not through any fault of my own (thankfully), but because the Wordpress folks decided to redesign the Wordpress admin when developing Wordpress 2.5, changing pretty much everything in the process.
Then Kerry Webster came along and made his own version of the plugin which works with 2.5, and he kindly said I could nab his changes and add them to mine. ...
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