I use Google Reader for my RSS feeds. (Yes, I know Twitter killed RSS, and I’m just dragging its corpse around.) In fact, I love it. Between the web interface and Byline for iPhone, I still depend on gReader for a lot of my information consumption.
That aside, Google sucks at designing intelligent and accessible user interfaces. I ran into one such example of suckage tonight.
I’m writing this post from the newly-released WordPress for iPhone 2 app. I haven’t given the app a full run-through, but these are my first impressions.
Bad luck struck over the weekend. My Border Collie, Skyler, got hit by a truck. She survived, but she looks like she will permanently suffer from the accident.
I was asked to take a few pictures of the Drew County Rodeo this past weekend, for future promotional needs. I brought my camera and my two AlienBee lights. I took a few pictures from the events, and most of the barrel racing contestants. (The barrel racers had predictable locations within the range of my lights, and that helped keep blur to a minimum.)
There’s been an unexpected response to order these photos, so I wanted to let you know that free downloads of the original images, as well as paid prints, are available in my photo gallery, so go take a look.
Over Labor Day weekend, word was sent out regarding older versions of the WordPress blogging platform. A nasty worm was circulating around older WP installations by searching for them through Google. When an old (that is, anything older than 2.7.1, I believe) installation was found, this worm would create and then hide an admin account. From there, it could potentially corrupt MySQL databases and, filling blog posts with spam content. So, needless to say, it was a nasty problem that could be easily avoided.
I took over the technology side of Monticello Live a few months ago, and have been keeping things in order. The problem arose over the holiday weekend when this worm was announced—Monticello Live was running on a much older WordPress installation (try 2.4, if I remember right).
I backed everything up after checking for any worm problems, and updated to the latest WordPress build. I’ve been working on a new theme for ML for several weeks now, and figured this was as good a time as any to implement the changes. Over the past two weeks, I’ve been tinkering and making changes and building the site back to near-completion.
I hope the local community finds this refresh of the layout a welcome change, since the site has remained virtually unchanged since Jeff Nobles created it back in 2006.
I plan on adding a lot more to the site as far as web standards go, but for now, it’s running well and should be completely operational.