October 2009 Archive

Public Enemies (2009)

Good film, if not just a bit long. Not knowing the history of John Dillinger I can’t say if its historically accurate, although from what I’ve been reading, it sounds like some artistic license may have been used. Johnny Depp good as usual, although I think I still prefer him in more humorous/crazy character roles.

7/10

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Review 31 Oct 2009 0 comments
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Up (2009)

I’ll admit, the trailer looked pretty good, but I thought “a movie about an old guy floating around in his house, pixar must be short of ideas”. Wrong. It was absolutely stunning, I enjoyed it so much. The characters are great, the animation and scenery are too. Wasn’t sure about the talking dogs, but pretty much everything else makes up for that. Disney/Pixar have yet again produced a wonderful story, mind you, I can’t think of a Pixar movie I haven’t liked.

10/10

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Review 29 Oct 2009 0 comments
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I want access to twitter lists…and the api

I would also love to know the criteria twitter are using for giving people access to the lists. It can’t be the number of people you follow, or the number that follow you, or the number of tweets you’ve posted, or how long you’ve been using twitter for, because I know of several people who have less followers, less tweets, are following less people and have been a user for a much shorter period of time and they have access to list. Yet I don’t. Even being the developer of a popular (well, not as popular as it used to be) twitter app doesn’t seem to qualify me. Sigh. I will wait, I don’t even really ‘need’ lists, but people using Hahlo will, and I can’t build in support until I get access and can use them myself. Please twitter, can I haz lists now?

Sidenote 29 Oct 2009 1 comment
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Angels & Demons (2009)

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I started reading the novel before the movie came out with the intention of finishing it before I saw the movie. That was in April. I never finished the novel, got about 80% through and that was it, I’ll probably go back to it at some point. However, I did read enough of the novel to know that they changed (or removed) a lot in the adaptation, which was probably a good thing since it was still over two hours long. But I still enjoyed it despite all the changes, and if you liked The Da Vinci Code then you’ll probably like this too… even if its a bit like seeing the same movie with a few different characters chasing after something a bit different.

7/10

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Review 25 Oct 2009 0 comments
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New WordPress theme: Dear Diary

Dear Diary is a super simplistic theme for WordPress. It is best suited to a basic journal or diary where content is king and the theme should stay mostly out of your way.

Dear Diary is a super simplistic theme for WordPress. It is best suited to a basic journal or diary where content is king and the theme should stay mostly out of your way.

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What’s it great for?

With its ruled-notepad styling Dear Diary is perfect for a simple online journal or diary. Of course you can still posts images and videos etc, but simple text is what Dear Diary does best. You can check out a full live preview here.

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Article 24 Oct 2009 2 comments
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Fluency Admin 2.1.1 update available now After 2.1 hit 5,000 downloadsin less than a month I decided I’d knock out a quick update. Its not a huge update, but it does fix a few plugin display issues for the following plugins: Acronyms, NextGen Gallery, One-Click Plugin Updater, HeadSpace2 and WP-Polls. Fixes broken styling of Media Library popup and also added an option to set custom logo to display at the top of the menu (replaces WordPress logo). Download it here. Find out more here.

Link 18 Oct 2009 0 comments
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Introducing WPAPI.ORG

Ok, so I actually launched this last weekend, but I’m only just now getting around to writing (briefly) about it. WPAPI.ORG is a super easy to use API which you can use to retrieve stats for all those great plugins and themes that you’ve got hosted on WordPress.org. Why would you want to do this?

Ok, so I actually launched this last weekend, but I’m only just now getting around to writing (briefly) about it. WPAPI.ORG is a super easy to use API which you can use to retrieve stats for all those great plugins and themes that you’ve got hosted on WordPress.org. Why would you want to do this?

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Why did I build this thing?

Because I could. No, seriously, the reason that I’ve built this (and made it available to everyone else) is that I was looking for ways to pull back the stats from WordPress.org and display them on the project pages here on my site, maybe even with some sexy graphs using something like Raphaël JS. After some investigation I found the xml feed that powers the graphs on WordPress.org, but that didn’t really help me. What I really wanted was JSON.

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Article 18 Oct 2009 0 comments
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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008)

Different, quite funny in a weird sort of way. Takes the piss out of motivational speakers a little, guess you could say its a bit like Dexter crossed with Anthony Robbins. Dexter, however is so much better… if you’re not watching that show you seriously should be.

6/10

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Review 15 Oct 2009 0 comments
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