New Look and Feel

I haven’t changed the theme of this blog for almost two years. That’s forever in bloggers years, right? While I liked what I had, I recently decided it was time for change.

Until recently I have always had two thoughts about WordPress themes:

Code my own
Don’t use widgets (related to item 1)

I wanted to know exactly how

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WordPress Theme Generator

Here’s something I just killed an hour playing with:  The WordPress Theme Generator.  You can do some pretty neat things with it — be sure to check out all the pull-down menu options.  When done experimenting, download all the theme files as a zip or individually.  Even offers widgets support.

An interesting (and intriguing) way to

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Google Desktop 5 Beta Released

The Google Desktop blog announced today the latest beta release for Google Desktop. The main benefits appear to be aimed at better searching via a preview feature and more focus on security.

The most noticeable difference to me, however, is that the sidebar is far more aesthetically pleasing.

The sidebar has a completely new look

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Dabbling on Canvas

While plowing through my BlinkList stuff (see my recent Tag Angst post), I found a bookmark for Canvas, an interesting project for WordPress. The goal is to make it easy to modify your blog without having to know PHP/CSS (and apparently WordPress Tags too). While you must use a Canvas “theme”, everything about

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Opera 9b2 Followup and Conversations

More on Opera 9 beta 2 (last post). Simplerich has shared his take on it recently (in short, doesn’t like it). What’s interesting is that one of the things that drives him nuts is my favorite feature of Opera! I like going back to the most recently used tab when closing another

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