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Merry Christmas!
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and he is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. -Isaiah 9:6 (ESV)
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Elbee Elgee 1.3.3 Is Now Live In The Theme Repo
Just a small programming note: the latest stable version of Elbee Elgee is now live in the theme repository. The changelog is fairly sparse and goes to support WordPress 3.3. Mainly: Issues Fixed Switched from wp_print_styles() to wp_enqueue_scripts() to enqueue/output CSS due to changes in WordPress 3.3 (see here for details). Go forth and download!
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Elbee Elgee 1.3.2 Approved; 1.3.3 Incoming
I’ve released Elbee Elgee version 1.3.2 to the WordPress.org themes repository. The update got a clean bill of health and should be showing up in your WordPress Updates screens as soon as the Powers That Be mark it for “sync”. This is a small update that addresses the menu issues some folks were seeing involving…
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Export Mailman Subscriber Address Lists Without SSH/Shell Access
I recently had a need to export the contents of a GNU Mailman-based mailing list for WordCamp Philly, so I poked around the web-based Mailman admin interface, hoping to find an easy way to export a .CSV or at least a list of names, to no avail. The only supported, native way is to use…
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Elbee Elgee Version 1.3/1.3.1 Aka “The Tabbed One”
After a healthy delay, I’ve released Elbee Elgee 1.3 to the Dot Org Theme Repository. I’ve added a few things worth noting. Tabbed Admin Options The first change that I’m rather proud of is the inclusion of tabbed admin interface elements. While the code powering this setup could use some optimization and simplification, this tabbed…
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Announcing: Elbee Elgee
I’m excited to announce the first public release of my oft-delayed theme, Elbee Elgee. It’s available right now over at its page on WordPress.org. I’ve been working on this for the better part of the last few years, picking at the code here and there but never with any real drive towards a release. Why…
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Pre-K Jargon File
About a year ago, my wife and I were in the midst of watching the classic Stephen Fry/Hugh Laurie-helmed Jeeves and Wooster and we were allowing our kids to watch it along with us. We had been watching episodes each evening and the kids were keeping up well, though one night my at-the-time 2-year-old daughter…
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“Never So Big”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMTeLVDOTl4 David Byrne + Fatboy Slim + the story of Imelda Marcos’ nanny & Marcos herself(!) = stunningly awesome. Seriously check out all of Here Lies Love, Byrne and Fatboy’s collaboration/concept album.
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“Perform This Way”
Weird Al’s initial stab at a title track for his new album met with resistance from the original “artist”. Or, as @badbanana put it, “The song Lady Gaga didn’t want you to hear[.]”. Glorious. UPDATE: Here’s Weird Al’s side of the story. UPDATE 2: I’d be looking for a new manager if I were Lady…