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WordPress 2.6 and Freshy

Ben Hourigan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:19:55 +0000

In the absence of genuine content updates, the long-overdue announcement that this site no longer uses WordPress 2.5 or K2, but is now on WordPress 2.6 and a new theme.

I spent several weeks looking for a new base theme for my WordPress sites, and I finally settled on Freshy. Paired with the aptly named Customize plugin, it’s highly and easily customizable. I’ve had a lot of favorable comments from friends on how professional the theme looks. Kudos to designer Julien De Luca.

19 August 2008. A new version of Customize is out that restores widget reordering and fixes other admin interface bugs. There is also a new version of Freshy out (2.0.8), but I haven’t had a chance to try it yet. I’m almost ready to say Freshy users are okay to try upgrading to WP 2.6 (or even 2.6.1, the current version, which I’m now running), but will test the new version of the theme first.
18 August 2008. There are problems with the interaction between Customize (current version, 1.0.2) and WordPress 2.6 that can break some features of your admin interface, particularly the ability to reorder widgets by dragging. Freshy users should hold off upgrading to WordPress 2.6.

Penny Arcade

Ben Hourigan — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:45:51 +0000

I had the misfortune of falling sick today, my one day off this week. So I spent several hours finishing reading “Penny Arcade.”:http://www.penny-arcade.com Yes, all of it, from the first strip (“11 November 1998″:http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18) to the most recent “10 February 2006.”:http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/02/10 I’m pleased to say that the strip has gotten better over time (as it should), and that it richly deserves its ubiquity. Kudos to you, Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins: you made my sick-day a lot better than it might have been.

USA Today: — “No Clamor for Xbox in Japan”

Ben Hourigan — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 05:13:57 +0000

A recent article on the commercial failure of the Xbox in Japan, to which I contributed some comments, has been syndicated from The Christian Science Monitor to USA Today. Read it again, if you like, or “refer to my earlier post”:http://benhourigan.com/archives/2006/01/10/no-clamor-for-xbox-in-japan/ about its first appearance in the Monitor. The article also contains some comments by “Gonzalo Frasca”:http://ludology.org. Kudos to Matthew Rusling, the article’s author, who’s so far managed to have his article printed twice!

Update (20 Jan 2006, 14:17) — The article also appears on (at least) the following sites:

“CBS News”:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/10/tech/main1195544.shtml
“Xbox Addict”:http://www.xboxaddict.com/news/view.php?News_ID=6679
“Yahoo News”:http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060110/wl_csm/oxbox
“Kink FM”:http://www.kink.fm/radio.php/weblog/more/no_clamor_for_xbox_in_japan/

benhourigan.com’s funniest comment so far

Ben Hourigan — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:26:24 +0000

Just a few minutes ago, Sasha posted this masterful comment, which made me, university trained geek that I am, laugh harder than I had in weeks. Kudos to you, Sasha. Thanks, too, to the mysterious Jess/Jessica, who made such a good butt for Sasha’s jokes.

What are you waiting for? Read the comment!