The release of WordPress 3.0 introduced a lot of good stuff behind the scenes that I wanted to take advantage of. The new built in Twenty Ten theme incorporates all this new stuff and is pretty nice so I ditched my old custom theme that I was never super happy with. Overall changes:
- Switched to Twenty Ten theme
- Customized header with one of my panoramas from Kauai (Menehune Fishpond just south of Lihue)
- Built navigation menu using new Menu feature
- Added Contact form
- Added Google Reader snippet to display recent starred items in sidebar
- Setup footer widgets with Recent Posts, Tag Cloud, Pages and Categories for unobtrusive navigation links
- Deactivated Wordbooker, less content Facebook has of mine the better
- Enabled threaded comments, giving it another try
Posted in Geek Stuff
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Tagged theme, wordpress
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WordPress 3.0 was released yesterday and it's a very nice upgrade. Couple big features include custom post types and taxonomies, new default theme, new navigation menu system, merged MU (run multiple blogs from one install now) and tons of bugs fixes and tweaks. Be sure to upgrade!
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Tagged wordpress
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My quick rundown of the Republican Primary ballot:
- Prop 13 - Yes
- Prop 14 - No
- Prop 15 - No
- Prop 16 - Yes
- Prop 17 - Yes
- Governer - Whitman or Poizner (favoring Poizner for 2nd Amendment)
- Lt. Governer - Sam Aanestad (anyone but the douchebag Abel Maldonado)
- Secretary of State - Damon Dunn (better website, Orly Taitz sounds like a wacky birther)
- Controller - Either one, Evans is a fresh face in politics
- Attorney General - Eastman or Cooley
- Insurance Commissioner - Brian Fitzgerald (not the douchebag Mike Villines)
- Senator - Devore or Fiorina
- Judge Office #28 - Kim Smith
- Judge Office #35 - Soussan Bruguera
- Judge Office #73 - Laura Matz
- Judge Office #107 - Tony De Los Reyes
- Judge Office #117 - Pattricia Vienna
- Judge Office #131 - Maren Nelson
- Superintendent - None, they all sound like union hacks
- Assessor - John Loew (just because he put "Lower Taxes" as his middle name and affiliation with Howard Jarvis)
Went down to Tijuana yesterday with Ryan Morrison and some folks from Bakersfield to finish off some houses. Got tar paper, chicken wire and 2 coats of stucco on one house and a second coat on another. Before heading back across the border we got tacos at Ryan and the Amor's rep favorite place in all of TJ. The carne asada was fresh off the grill and the pork (aka Mexican gyro meat) was cut right off the rotisserie. Throw in a cold Coke and it hit the spot perfectly after a hard day of work. Easily the best tacos I've ever had.
Tacos and Coke in TJ
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Tagged mexico, tacos
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Cory and Tommy took the big step of deactivating Facebook, but I'm just demoting it a bit. I removed all my personal information and turned off the majority of notifications. My wall and comments have also been disabled. I left pictures up, but will not be posting more on Facebook. I have configured my blog to post a "New blog post" teaser on my wall which people can click through if they care. I removed the Status Update feed from Google Reader and uninstalled the Facebook app off my phone.
I prefer my web presence to be somewhere I have more control of my personal data. I highly doubt I'll miss it since I never particularly liked it to begin with. Let our blogs live on.
