Technocrank

wp-Hyphenate 1.07 beta
GigPress 1.4.5

I have a site that uses GigPress and in order to get it to embed its own code you need to insert a [gigpress_upcoming] (or similar) code into the page.  However, when wp-Hyphenate is activated it seems GigPress gets skipped and the string literal “[gigpress_upcoming]” gets regurgitated onto the page.

Update: It is indeed a known problem by the developer who quickly got in touch with me and informed me that it’s fixed in the upcoming release.  If this is actually bugging you and you need a quick fix you need to edit wp-content/plugins/wp-hyphenate/wp-hyphenate.php around line 94.  Change:

[sourcecode language=’php’]
add_filter(‘category_description’, ‘hyph_preProcess’, 10);
add_filter(‘comment_text’, ‘hyph_preProcess’, 10);
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘hyph_preProcess’, 10);
add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘hyph_preProcess’, 10);
add_filter(‘the_title’, ‘hyph_title’, 10);
[/sourcecode]

to

[sourcecode language=’php’]

add_filter(‘category_description’, ‘hyph_preProcess’, 9999);
add_filter(‘comment_text’, ‘hyph_preProcess’, 9999);
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘hyph_preProcess’, 9999);
add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘hyph_preProcess’, 9999);
add_filter(‘the_title’, ‘hyph_title’, 9999);

[/sourcecode]

Which forces wp-Hyphenate to do its duty last.

Okay, I don’t know if that’s actually true but the Features page of the Postbox site state it’s based on Mozilla technology, which to my mind suggests they’re either improving on Thunderbird or just using the XUL backend to put a better front end on their own code.  What do I know.

Postbox is a new email client for Mac OSX and they’ve just released their 8th beta of version 1.0.  I gave the 7th beta a test run and it wasn’t bad – pretty good actually.  Although, I’ve decided to stay with Apple Mail 3.0 for now since I’ve actually grown quite fond it its…um…stability.  Yeah, that’s right.

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Google‘s CEO Eric Schmidt is on record here and here saying that Twitter is a “sort of poor man’s email”.  I respectfully disagree.

Twitter is email lite.  Twitter is the icing of email’s cake without the heavy filling.  Twitter is the top of the muffin.  Twitter is the sex without the wet spot (was that too much?).

Basically, Twitter is email – except without the Body of the email.  It’s all Subject line.  You don’t even have to specify the recipient.  Ever wanted to send a message to somebody (or everybody) without specifying anybody and didn’t really want to say anything other than “I made it home”?  Twitter is perfect for this.

Picture this:


From: Crankie Tech <dont@spam.me>
To: Everyone I Know <*@internet*.*>
Subject: I Made It Home
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:08:27

Well, I made it home.  That is all.

Sincerely,
Me

It’s short, but it’s easily 700 bytes longer than it needs to be, not including firing up the email client or web client, blah blah blah.  With Twitter, on a single data-light web page you get:

I am home.

Or occasionally:

Twitter also relieves you of having to fish the odd spam out of your Inbox because, well, honestly, it’s all spam.  However, it’s spam from people you know – which makes it only slightly less annoying because you asked for it.

jQuery Lightbox (Balupton Edition) 1.3.5

jQuery Lightbox (Balupton Edition) WP plugin 0.5

There are a million lightbox implementations out there and almost as many corresponding WordPress plugins.  My favourite is the jQuery Lightbox (Balupton Edition) which, in my opinion, is one of the best looking ones out there.  A lot of them go for flashiness but end up looking tawdry or, in their attempt to be pretty end up suffering usability issues.   The jLB is simple and attractive.  I use it in conjunction with the Add Lightbox plugin.

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The only problem with this chart is the fact there’s significant overlap between some of these, e.g. “People who can’t afford Match.com” and “Proud ownever of butterfly tramp stamps”.