There and Back Again

I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. I don’t think i like the new admin theme, too much change.

If you see something broken please let me know.

Having fun with my new camera

(Yes I used WebThumb to take the snapshot)

<webthumb>
	<apikey>keyhere</apikey>
	<request>
		<url>http://flickr.com/photos/joshuaeichorn/sets/72157604167994594</url>
		<outputtype>png</outputtype>
		<width>1024</width><!-- browser width -->
		<height>768</height><!-- browser height -->
		<excerpt>
			<x>420</x>
			<y>180</y>
			<height>80</height>
			<width>350</width>
		</excerpt>
	</request>
</webthumb>

• Heading to dnd #
• Stella #
• To a baseball game #

• Heading home #
• Its home depot time #
• Ohio: http://tinyurl.com/27u7×9 #
• Sleeping #
• The Cause of the Construction: http://tinyurl.com/2jsgj3 #
• Start Adding Dirt: http://tinyurl.com/yoovhm #
• Level Bark and Stones: http://tinyurl.com/25tqk5 #
• Some bark nuggets to help with drainage: http://tinyurl.com/yvrczu #
• Spread it about: http://tinyurl.com/22c33y #
• Lots of rocks: http://tinyurl.com/yqha9o #
• Starting to add rocks: http://tinyurl.com/27m5c7 #
• Putting down the barrier: http://tinyurl.com/2xjoaw #
• Cover: http://tinyurl.com/2eojdf #
• Add the border: http://tinyurl.com/2b6stb #
• The base again: http://tinyurl.com/2z99uj #
• Working #
• @tswicegood use winar or winzip like everyone else #
• Recovering from lunch heart attack #
• @auroraeosrose #
• Going crazy from 3d tweets from everyones use of Twadget #

With Jen moving in, I’ve been doing a lot of home improvement projects lately.

A couple weekends ago it was building a Dog Garden (Thanks Charles and Alex), then hanging a new door so the dogs could have a doggy door to get the patio and the garden.

Last night it was planting some flowers, I got some nice orange marigolds and some white petunias. Hopefully I didn’t mess anything up too much and they will live.

• Trying to figure out how to use twitter #
• Troy is an old man #
• Trying to fix my imap server #
• That you are #
• rebooting server cause i’ve leaked memory that i can’t seem to recover #
• I feel young #
• Server fixed: http://tinyurl.com/2kr28q #
• The camera stole my soul #
• Back to work #
• Coding on whiteboard with steven #
• Working fine for me #
• Php 5.2.x upgrade meeting #
• Lunch at stumpies #
• I made this site http://bemba.com/u/4672 #
• Working on a search engine #

So i’ve finally given in and joined twitter and started mo-blogging with flickr.

I’m also looking into Bemba, since it’s one of my WebThumb customers.

Microsoft has released information about whats it adding to IE8. The changes for developers look pretty good.

The biggest things I see are:

• The selectors API (built selecting elements by css, there is an inprogress w3c spec for this, Webkit also implements the api in its beta)
• Better developer tools
• Lots of new AJAX stuff

AJAX wise most of the changes are implementing bug fixes and new APIs from the HTML 5 spec (DOM Storage, firing hashChanged events, XDM).

There also seems to be a new XDR API for making requests to other domains. The API is simple but I’m not sure if the security model is good enough not to cause long term problems. If anyone finds/writes a review of XDR and its security implications please let me know.

A WebThumb drupal module has been added allowing you to easily use WebThumb in a drupal site. I haven’t had a chance to use the module but the code quality looks good.