So, I’m a little slow in upgrading my WordPress build - primarily because I still use a great little plugin called Exhibit, which was created by Owen Winkler what seems like a thousand years ago. Now there may be many better options out there that I haven’t explored, but I like Exhibit because it’s a simple, no-nonsense image plugin. Also, heaps of my previous posts use it, so to maintain reverse compatibility I had a little hack today and have worked out how to get it and WordPress 2.1 enjoying each other’s company!! Yay

Since 1.5, getting it to work has been a big hassle, and consequently im still running 1.5.2… but not for long. Hopefully by next weekend I will have had enough spare time to back up the current data and migrate all the goodness over to the spiffy new build of WP. And a new theme may follow… i’ll keep you posted. Until then, revel in my web 1.5.2 ness.

EDIT : You can now download my hacked version of Exhibit for WordPress 2.1 : here - exhibit_for_wp2.1.rar. Happy posting.

Well, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

Hope everyone has had as much fun as I have over the last few weeks Things are getting back to normal here now, and before all the Mexican adventures become posts you have to search for, I decided to take a few hours and remake the shiftperception.com homepage to reflect some of the feeling I got from the trip.

So, enjoy shiftperception.07. I’ll be adding onto it if I get time, and doing more experimentation and cool stuff into the new year (I promise)!

/dan

Yup, a very clever move. The Flash player will no longer be a proprietry closed source plugin, shunned by the developers of the world. Hopefully the donation of the Flash player to Mozilla will herald a new age of interative development, and better and more standards compliant integration of Flash content with HTML, AJAX and the browser.

Read about it at these places:

1. Adobe announcement
2. Linux and open source blog
3. Read Write Web
4. Mozilla project home
5. Implications - from Browser Den
6. Linux Insider
7. Desktop Linux

Well, if this isn’t the coolest (im sure i’ve said that before!!) app to come out of google… Gmail on your mobile!

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And I don’t just mean surfing the Gmail website on your mini mobile browser… I mean full blown Java app designed SPECIFICALLY for your thumb Seriously, it is fantastic, and will change the way you recieve email (at least it has changed me!!) and it looks super cool on my Nokia 6280, which is also a plus

If you want it, point your mobile to : http://gmail.com/app. You know you want to!

I hate the flu.