23 Jan 2007
Sorry to sound like an absolute fanboy, but I’ve been hanging out for this for about two weeks (which is a long time for me when it comes to open source software that typically has vague release dates–although that isn’t WordPress any more).
Sounds like… magic to my ears. Also looks as though there may be a bit of work involved when it comes to taking advantage of all the new goodies on old websites, but that’s probably to be expected. Although it’s a one-way upgrade (database structure changes), at very least it doesn’t appear to have removed any functionality. Which is beautiful.
I’m also going to enjoy rolling this out on a multi-user site that’s using WP as a backend without telling anyone, just to see if they notice the little UI enhancements it’s throwing out all over the place. (Well, assuming the upgrade goes well… otherwise I’ll send a red-faced email letting them know about it!)
I’ll probably roll it out here before the end of the week. No new theme coming, so it’s probably only really exciting for me… but that’s okay. ;-)
22 Jan 2007
People threw me a surprise party for my birthday.
It took be a full ten seconds after I walked into the room to catch on.
Gem lied to me a lot over the course of several phone calls and conversations, Szanto was complicit in sending faux group text messages (a nice touch), Claudia conspired to offer a venue, and Luke was strategically late. Others probably deserve crediting but will forgive my memory — perhaps it took me too long to realise and it will come to me in another week or two!
Was rather good times.
I had to be told to blog this. I’m not being rude, I just don’t have any photos of the night to stick up, and, really, it feels a bit flat without them. There was an underwater camera but it ran away to Melbourne before I could steal things from it.
So, maybe photos to come. Marcelo was taking Myspace photos underwater. Addict. Betraying the “I hate myspace” cause to which you once held fast! On the plus side, he doesn’t have the photos yet, either :P
22 Jan 2007
I am getting very frustrated at the absolutely disproportionate representation of females over males in low-cost stock photography libraries. Especially in the non-American ones, which, really, is the sensible way to go on account of so much American stock being so ridiculously stereotypical and generally clinical. That’s why so many designers hate Corbis — it’s nothing to do with the cost, just the crappy content. Admittedly you don’t always need people-stock, but even so… when you do…
If you’re a girl and know any professional photographers, get your face out of the picture or at the very least, grab a guy and pretend to start talking to him. Okay?
(Yes, tongue in cheek.)
22 Jan 2007
I’m just having one of those I-wish-there-were-other-people-on-team days, but bear with me whilst I briefly complain: I’m sick of having this stupid acronym for a name (CYIADA) — it’s as bad as joahua in terms of domain-name spellability! If you’re ever in doubt about that, apply the radio test: if you had to run a radio ad that had a phone number and web address at the end of it, would it work?
So today we’re running the second CYIADA presentation and survey up at KYLC (Jodie’s doing it so I’m not heading up this week, which is cool but a bit boring! Nearly everyone ran away…) which got me thinking about it again. Ah well. People will be confused about where it is one more time — I’m hoping they’ll run the web address up on the screens for the duration of a four minute presentation… that should be long enough to get six letters down!
Anyway… names… I’m so out of ideas. Please be praying for inspiration or someone who’s got a bit of creative prowess about them to throw at a brand for this thing. (I can do words but marketing and academic writing aren’t exactly identical… so I must do at least one of the two badly, I don’t know which just yet!) Usage: secular evangelism (but it’s a “find out more” resource in that sense, so don’t avoid using God-words if you were going to — no-one is being scared off by that), marketing to leaders, marketing to marketers (bands, camps, conferences — so words in the same semantic realm as “connect” are a good idea), and a tiny bit to youth group kids themselves. But if we can hit the first three then the fourth will take care of itself, methinks.