Point is, he’s achieved a lot. Here is one comparison for you, have you ever heard of Seth Godin, well he’s also a page rank 6. I will openly admit I didn’t see the significance of page rank until the last year or two, but I can say with out a doubt most of us will never pass a pr4.

I’m mentioning Reader’s Circle because he is in need of admin overhaul. He could use a little more lead in his press… If you are an avid “Reader” or a lover of the printed word take some time and get to know what Reader’s Circle is all about.

Here is the crazy thing, everything that Norman has accomplished has been done without using today’s standard of “Social Networking”. He’s offering a service and a resource that you just can’t find anywhere else.

So, if you’re a Reader this is for you! Go and see for yourself!

I woke up yesterday morning and thought this would be a cool idea. Normally I wouldn’t bother anyone with stuff like this, but I used groups/wp-themes/ for the url so I figured I should probably tell some people who also like to design WP Themes a lot.

I’ve been picking up so much work lately that I feel like I’m cutting corners on Design, and this is my attempt to farm out Design work based on the clients interests… fingers crossed!

Go to flickr.com/groups/wp-themes/ and read the rules and everything. Join the group and upload some stuff. Hopefully at some point in time we can make this into a great tool for design collaboration and designers meeting designers.

About WP Theme Designs

This is a place for Design. Join the Group, Post your Design, Link back to yourself! This Group is not directly connect to WordPress, were just folks that like to design Themes.

Designers:
Just because you can’t write a web page doesn’t mean you can’t design one. Let see what you got!

Looky Loos
If you see something you like, contact the designer and/or an admin and we’ll see what we can do to get it built.

Our Intent
This group was started with the intent to give Bloggers a place to come check out designs before they’ve been cut into a theme. With that in mind designers can post a Theme and make it available with out having to go through the hassle of creating a full product before they get paid.

As a designer I’m constantly coming up with random ideas that never make it past the psd. I figured there must be other people out there with designs just waiting to be seen. My hope is that Bloggers can come here and find a Design they like with out having to go through the potential weeks of mind-numbing design process, or at least find a designer with the same concepts in mind.

There is no Catch
One of our Goals is to help facilitate the Designer/Client ice breaking by letting Bloggers find Designer through their work rather than hours of google searches and sifting through the repository.

Our over all Goal is to cut out the nuts and bolts of the code and keep the Designs flowing. Keep the Creative People Creative, and Keep the Coding People Coding.

Please, Please, Please!!!
Be Kind, Be Courteous & Be Constructive …or don’t be anything at all.

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Let me know if this turns on any lightbulbs for ya, there is a lot of potential in something like this. All we need is the right catalyst to get it started.

Sabotage!!! Some hates me,,, No actually somewhere in the midst of all the updates one of the plugins came back just a little more beefed up than I expected.

Gigpress is pretty awesome plugin with some great options and great widgets. It’s fairly easy to manipulate and the php is easy to understand if you want to mess with the guts. But!!! Gigpress does a lot of work so it comes with a lot of queries, usually not a problem, but the latest version mixed with the Bluehost server didn’t cut it.

Here me out though, Gigpress isn’t all bad. Due to some unfortunate events I moved one of my projects to Dreamhost in hopes of finding some other solutions to my problem. (I’ve been looking for a good reason to check out Dreamhost for a long time, I guess I got my wish.) I did quite a few test and found that regardless of 20+ queries that Gigpress asks for Dreamhost served it up 54 queries in 0.462 seconds, not bad. Bluehost was serving 54 queries in 2.542 seconds… Ouch!!!

So what did I do? I found a different plugin. Might I recommend Gigs Calendar. I stayed away from it for a long time because it’s admin is said to only work with Firefox and Safari. So be sure to read the Other Notes on the plugin from the WP Plugin Directory.

Take my advise, don’t over look your query load just because you’re not seeing a problem… it will come back to bite you…

Try these functions in the footer of your theme, if there not already there.
echo get_num_queries();
timer_stop(1);

I’ve been using these for ever, but I’ve never appreciated them more than I do now

A Few Things

• Started Web Work Fulltime
• Upgraded from a g4 466mhz (2001) to MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
• Moved from Portland, Or to Franklin, TN
• Became single again.
• Bought a Scooter
• Learned more in the last 12month than I learned in my entire 5yrs of college.
• I know there is more, but I just can’t remember it.

A Few Stats

Enjoy your New Years!!! :-)

Snow? Maybe a pair of the those really nice gloves and a snowball to through with them. Well, maybe next year. For now I’m content and glad 08 has been such an interesting year. I always find myself very reflective around Christmas. I know why, and yet I still don’t understand it.

I don’t make New Years Resolutions and I don’t make predictions, but I will say that I think 09 is going to be interesting. Every year around this time I think about what is going to happen over the next year, and a lot of it’s unknown. Some where in there I always seem to find one thing that I can be certain of.

The only thing I’m certain of so far is that 09 is the year I’ll learn Franklin and the surrounding area. although thats not the gut certainty I’m waiting for… :cool:

one thing is for sure, the clouds here move fast!!!

Here are two things that help me keep my days in a regular flow of silliness and Anime fun. FLCL is an Anime series that’s kinda weird, but pretty fun. The video below is a band called “The Pillows” with the FLCL song “Riding on a Shooting Star”

Most of the time is a facial feature or an attitude that creates the shape in my head, but most of the time it takes a while to get a solid shape. The interesting thing is when I meet people that seem to define themselves very quickly.

I get along with just about every shape of person, but I tend to be miss understood by the pointy shapes. What’s my shape?? I think I’m boxy with rounded corners, but a little bubbly too.

Well, here is a little something I decided to pay attention to yesterday. It’s been around for a while, but you know how it is when there are a million things going on. (and honestly this isn’t high on the priority list)

None the less this will help out those of you that are daring enough to open up your functions.php file and put in a little css.

And if you want the full effect, go to the wp-includes/media.php file line 587 and check out the part of the gallery_shortcode function you’re filtering.

Download gallery_style.php ps - if there is a mistake in this let me know and I’ll update it!!! :cool: