the ryan king

My friend Joe, who I’ve known since I was about 5 years old has started blogging.

josephfinke.com

Along with the new design, I’m installing some WP plugins, to try to improve things around here. The first one I’m trying out is called Markdown and it allows me to use a markup style simpler than HTML to write my posts. This is very nice, but frankly, I’m sick of learning new markup styles. In the last few days, I’ve written markup in these styles:

• xml
• xhtml
• yawiki
• media wiki
• markdown
• humanetext

Seriously, enough is enough. I’ve going to have to find a way to use fewer of these, especially among the set of (yawiki, media wiki, markdown and humanetext)- its jut too much to try to remember.

Since I updated to 1.5, I decided a new design was in order. This new design is really just a derivative of the wonderful Kubrick, which is now the default for WP.

I made an improvement on my Google Bookmarklet Just drag this link to your bookmarks bar:

Google Similar

The improvement is that it no longer opens the google search in a new window. I’m not sure why I did that in the first place- I had links that open in a new window without my permission. :-)

I was just alerted to the fact that Google has updated their Zeitgeist to include specific Zeitgeists for other countries. In particular, look here at Ireland’s Zeitgeist.

I find it interesting that the most popular men are of several nationalities (Irish and British for the ones I recognize), whereas the most popular women are all Americans. Hmm.