WordPress 2.5 My First tests - Broken Plugins
March 30, 2008
Alright, my first test post after activating several plugins was a painless experience. All my tabs were open on the post page. This was both good and bad, as All in One SEO Pack was open and ready to use, but so was every other section requiring lots of scrolling.
The plus side is All in One SEO Pack, AutoMeta, WordPress Database Backup, Twitter Tools, Technorati Tags 
and ShareThis seems to work.
Bad News: LiveJournal CrossPoster, and Adhesive don’t work.
I guess it will be a while before I bother upgrading…
WordPress 2.5 My First Impressions
March 30, 2008
My first impression of WordPress 2.5 is the admin side of things looks like they simply added a new theme changing the basic layout. Is it drastic? Not really, it will take some time getting used to it no doubt, but I don’t feel at the moment the interface is anything to worry about. The guinea pig test blog was a pretty standard 2.3.3 WordPress install on my local PC server. I simply copies the 2.5 files into the directory loaded up the local host and boom install with no problems. I am not sure I like the new layout, but that could be out of long standing familiarity with the other one. I liken the change to going from word 2003 to 2007 without horrible file extension surprises.
First image is the Dashboard
The posting page doesn’t have any real drawbacks except the expanding tabs for all your extra fields at the bottom. Simple Plus and Minus signs open these up. Which for the casual poster who rarely uses them, this won’t mean a thing. For those of us who tag, retag, use plugins like the All in One SEO Pack this will probably get on our nerves if we can’t figure a way to keep it open.
The Manage tab is pretty much straightforward as well. For a person who is used to dealing with many browser tabs open at one, there nothing really difficult about managing WordPress
The Design Tab which used to be called Presentation might throw someone because of the name.
On the right side of the screen you have Plugins, Settings and Users which have the new style but little functionality differences that I can see immediately.
All in all WordPress 2.5 works and looks pretty good, on the other hand Windows WTF Vista did too the first time I loaded it up. I am going to play around with this for a day or two before uploading it to a working blog. I hope to give you a full report on what this version breaks. As always backup before doing anything.
Adult Fun with Jell-O Shots from Digg
March 29, 2008
I’ve been making Jell-O shots for years. They are easy to make, deliver the right buzz, and don’t give you that bloated feeling. So after years of dixie cups and seeing all the new innovative “delivery systems” - heck one is even called suck and blow - I thought I’d look for a more adult solution and…
Well here it is on a Friday i give you Saturday entertainment. Follow the Digg Story and give them props for innovative ways of getting hammered.
60% of Photoshop Users are PIRATES! - From Digg
March 29, 2008
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me….
I think this actually says more about Photoshop and Adobe than it does the photographers themselves. I think if you looked at non photographic users and targeted this survey to college kids, your percentage of pirated users would probably be around 90% or higher. Photoshop as are most Adobe products great pieces of software, but simply put they aren’t affordable for most users. When such a high percentage of things start falling off the back of a truck on the information superhighway there is usually something wrong on the business end of things.
How Did He Shoot That? - From Digg
March 29, 2008
It is of course not possible for a photographer to be in the pool during a swimming competition, but that doesn’t stop a determined photographer getting the picture!
I have worked on this problem over a number of years, and got it down to a fine art.
The technique is not new. I had a housing for my f4s way back in the day when it was the top end of action photography. Remote and motion sensor photography also isn’t new. The only new thing about this is how quickly he can not put this out to his editors. Ten years ago the best we could hope for was an hour to develop the film, a couple of minutes to scan the negative, a few more to photoshop it, then a few more to email it where it needed to go.
The speed is great, and so is the shot, but there is very little new in the way of technique.
