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Planned books:
- The Dark River (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 2) by John Twelve Hawks
- A Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston
- Feed (Newsflesh, Book 1) by Mira Grant
Current books:
Recent books:
- Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
- Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert
- The Copywriter’s Handbook, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide To Writing Copy That Sells by Robert W. Bly
- The Traveler (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 1) by John Twelve Hawks
- Jonathan Strange by Susanna Clarke
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Sidd's Wishlist
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Not a Wishlist, but stuff for you to get stuff at Amazon
for yourself.
Tag Archives: WordPress
More on Tags
You will notice the tag cloud, just below the Flickr pictures in the sidebar. These replace the old categories that I used before. You will also notice that [..]
RE: Open Letter to WordPress Theme Designers
Open Letter to WordPress Theme Designers is an excellent, well, exactly what it says, open letter to theme designers. I would add to that, don’t hard code the [..]
Canvas Blocks
EDIT: The issue below will be fixed in Canvas. Just a quick little thing I learned while making some blocks for Canvas today. When putting in the description, [..]
More Canvas
Canvas, as I mentioned before, is a new plug-in for WordPress. It allows for the easy modification of specialized Canvas themes (as of this witting there are only [..]
New Theme, New Plugin, More Kick A**!
I am trying out a new plugin for WordPress called Canvas. This may change things more drastically than the introduction of widgets for the sidebar. I can’t even [..]
Sudoku Generator Plugin
What WordPress could use is a sudoku generator plugin. The only thing I have found so far is far short of a plugin. If anyone takes the challenge [..]
More Editing Now Reading Code
With the theme I am using, the sidebar got stuck below the content. Now the sidebar is aligned along the top with the content. I also had to [..]
Fixing Now Reading
As I mentioned before I use the Now Reading plugin for WordPress here. However, it has a small anoyance. It linked to the “You may also be interested [..]
The Bear Witch Project
More of a test of a the Extreme Video Plug-in for WordPress than anything else. Anyhow, this is a parody of The Blair Witch Project staring The Muppets. [..]
Truly Odd Bug
I am not sure if it is a WordPress thing, a Firefox/IE bug, something with my computer, or what. For some reason none of my links to GeSHi [..]
I Modified GeSHi’s C# File
As noted before, to post code in WordPress, I use the ig:Syntax Hiliter plugin. It uses the GeSHi engine. I recently decided to modify the way it colors [..]
Now Reading
I just added another cool plugin/widget. It allows me to add books to a Now Reading list. It doesn’t handle short term items like DVDs and music. It [..]
Theme Change
I have changed the theme I use here. It is a design originally by Andreas Viklund and ported by Ainslie Johnson, it is called WP-Andreas09 and makes use [..]
Comment Spam Getting Out of Control
The comment spam is getting out of control! I had over 70 comment spams yesterday alone. So I have installed the Akismet plugin, which in theory should make [..]
Code Highlighting
I have finally found a code highlighter that works well in WordPress 2.x. iG:Syntax Hiliter makes use of the
The Problem with Rich Text Editing in WordPress
I have finally given up on using the Rich Text Editing environment with WordPress. It causes way too many formating problems. Copy/pasted stuff will get re-arranged as WordPress [..]
More PHP editing.
Over to your right, you will see a randomly selected item from either Sara’s Amazon Wishlist, or mine. While I got the initial script from Two Ells, I [..]

