March 30, 2008
WordPress plugin: Comment Author Checklist
I’ve written a WordPress plugin for my critique group. It gives you a new template tag, <?php show_comment_author_checklist() ?>, that generates a list of registered users with the names of those who have commented on the post (as well as the post’s author) crossed off. See the plugin page for more details1.
This is useful for any group blog doing some kind of document review.
I haven’t added it to the official plugin repository just yet, because I don’t quite grok Subversion because I’d like someone other than me to test the thing and let me know how it goes. If you have a critique group that runs WordPress (along the lines of the Glindas), give it a spin.
1 Plz to be making feature requests and such on the plugin page rather than here. Here is where you say, “Wow, Steph, a plugin. That’s… really nerdy.”
March 29, 2008
County Convention
Just got home about 20 minutes ago. I have to say, I really can’t recommend spending eight hours in an elementary school gym with your fellow citizens, no matter how similar your politics might be. If the Texas Democratic Women hadn’t been funding a scholarship by selling bottled water, and if a local lawyer hadn’t brought in dozens of pizzas at the six-hour mark, there would have been bloodshed.
It was educational. I’ll give it that.
March 28, 2008
Charlie Jade coming to the Sci-Fi Channel
Charlie Jade coming to the Sci-Fi Channel (via Preston, who pointed me to the show in the first place) (my thoughts on it)
Judge a Book by its Cover
Judge a Book by its Cover — Thanks, Shaima, I’ll never get any work done again.
March 27, 2008
2008 Hugo Award nominees available to read online
2008 Hugo Award nominees available to read online — a running list
*thud*
I’ve finally solved a PHP problem that has been plaguing my seekrit project for months. Which means you might actually get to see it sooner rather than later.
March 24, 2008
SIGMA… le sigh.
Not news: Niven and Brin making flaming jackasses of themselves. News: Doing so at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security.
March 20, 2008
March 19, 2008
March 18, 2008
“A More Perfect Union”
A More Perfect Union — sometimes everyone links to a thing because it really is that good. This is one of those times. (ETA: Daily Kos reports that it’s the first major speech written solely by the speaker in almost forty years.)
March 17, 2008
Match It For Pratchett
Match It For Pratchett — Help match Terry Pratchett’s $1 million (£500,000) donation to Alzheimer’s Research.
Oh, look. A late-night story ambush.
How very predictable.
New words: 684
Reason for stopping: 2 a.m.
Charlie
words: 3,609 / 67,500 (5%)
March 16, 2008
A brief observation
I’m vaguely dissatisfied with everything I’m reading. This probably means I should be writing instead.
In other news, spring cleaning has taken place. Closets have been cleaned out. Laundry has been accomplished. And now I am sneezy.
March 15, 2008
March 12, 2008
Spaghetti with Beef Mushroom Sauce
Spaghetti with Beef Mushroom Sauce — OMFG that’s good. Alas, it’s also a diet breaker. (The page I cut from the magazine didn’t include the calorie count… otherwise I might not have made it.)
