A “gravatar” is a “globally recognized avatar“. I can’t remember why I signed up at gravatar.com about six months ago. Last October, the company that runs Wordpress, the software that runs this blog, bought gravatar.com, so it’s not surprising that there is a Wordpress plugin to support gravatars. When I noticed that [...]

I’m a huge fan of the Audio Player plugin for Wordpress that lets you embed a flash player for a single MP3 file in a blog post. The problem is that you have to host the MP3 file yourself, and if your hosting service isn’t very generous with either storage space or bandwidth, it’s [...]

I’ve been debating for a while how to, and whether or not to, switch to host all of my photos on Flickr.

This blog, in its present form, turned one year old this past weekend. It was a solemn single-candle ceremony.

Several people have found my blog lately searching for a countdown widget for Wordpress. I briefly considered writing one with a nice back-end interface for entering the date, etc., but in the end, I think it’s going to take less time and be more flexible if I just explain how I have mine done.

Yesterday, I received an email from a Hollywood actor.

Don’t look now, but you’re being followed! By Google…

This has been done before, but not in such a simple and elegant way, in my opinion. This implementation has four important features that separate it from the rest: no images, no messy nested divs in your html code, no CSS, and realistic fading shadows!

There are many Wordpress plugins that should be converted into sidebar widgets, made compatible with the Automattic Widget Plugin, but, for whatever reason, have not yet been converted. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a generic way to call other plugins from within a sidebar widget? Now there is! Introducing…. Widgetize [...]

My “What I’m Listening To” links on the left now go to iTunes Store when they can.