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Rusted Root
March 14, 2005

On Friday night, Berta and I went out with Stan, Judy, Jay, and Kelly to dinner and a Rusted Root concert.

It’s been a while since Berta and I were out to a concert. The last one was Puddle of Mudd. Puddle of Mudd is one of those bands where you have to be careful who you tell for fear of ridicule. Rusted Root isn’t one of those bands around here, but I remember there was some derision back in college about it, simply because they’re local to Pittsburgh. For example, I’ve met people around here that felt the same way about Live, who are from the Hershey/Lancaster area.

BSG
March 13, 2005

By the way… I just wanted to mention that I’ve now seen the entire first season of the new Battlestar Galactica, and if you will just give me a copy of the upcoming broadcast season I will gladly perform any service you like - network install, gutter cleaning, murder, whatever - just so I can get over the cliffhanger.

Oh, man… In that last episode, when ***** finds out that ***** is a Cylon, and then when s/he does what s/he does on Galactica. Holy crap! I will say that I was kind of disappointed with the “Don’t shoot her” aspect of the Caprica storyline, but it was worth it for what followed.

Ocadia
March 13, 2005

She’s not quite done with it, but I couldn’t wait to tell you about how Becca (she made the totally sweet design for Asymptomatic) is soon to release her first free theme for WordPress 1.5, Ocadia. Becca’s designs are awesome.

She has entered it in Alex’s theme competition, where the good free designs are really starting to pile up. Hopfully, more folks will start uploading their themes to wp-themes.org, which contains themes that are all free for use on your own WordPress site.

Admin, We Have a Problem...
March 11, 2005

Ack! There has been a sudden surge in plugin releases that make use of the new add_options_page() function. I think it’s great that the community is so interested in extending WordPress this way with such great features. But there’s a problem…

If your plugin’s options page only has one item on it (like a single checkbox or a textbox), then you’re taking up a relative ton of real estate on the admin console to enable your options.

Take this Amazon ASIN linker plugin for example. It’s a great idea. But it you install 4 of these options-light plugins, you’ve got an Options menu that streches all the way across the screen!

It’s not a problem with the design of any one plugin, but unless plugin devs start interacting with one another, the issue could escalate.

So what’s a plugin developer to do? Here’s an idea…